Critical Media Practices
Media Production students cluster around a table in CU «Ƶ’s Museum of Natural History as Emily Braker, the museum’s collections manager, reveals their subjects: a snake in a jar, taxidermied birds, a series of skulls and an array of other specimens dating back to the early 1900s. Their task? Take advantage of 2020 technology to reanimate the objects for an assignment in their Introduction to Extended Realities course.
Featuring a special note from longtime Sports Illustrated columnist Rick Reilly (Jour'81).
As part of the Pathways to Excellence Summer Intensive program, students get to know the «Ƶ campus and city, tour local newsrooms and agencies, meet alumni, and work side-by-side with faculty and peers to produce creative projects.
Abby Siegel (CritMedia’19) is compelled to do something that’s usually ill advised in polite culture: Approach strangers to ask about their race and religion.
For the series “Microscopy,” Instructor Pat Clark photographed media such as ink, clay, cotton, flower petals and melting ice through a microscope to create technicolor, abstract works of art.
Updates on our exceptional alumni, from the 1946 grad who wrote one of journalism’s most seminal textbooks, to the 2018 grad who is CMCI’s first-ever Department of Information Science alum.
Update: Nick Mundinger, now a graduating senior, is the 2020 William W. White Outstanding Senior for the Department of Critical Media Practices. Chosen by department faculty, this award recognizes academic
Students learn about composition from all angles by producing 360-degree images for projection onto the dome of Fiske Planetarium.
