Graduate Certificate: Interdisciplinary Documentary Media Practices

The IDMP Certificate requires the successful completion of 12 credit hours of Seminar Courses and Production Workshops and Topics:

I. Seminar Courses (6 credit hours)

            CMDP 5100 (3) Research and Methodologies Seminar
            CMDP 5600 (3) Documentary Lab Seminar

II. Production Workshop and Topics (6 credit hours)

            CMDP 5500 (3) Documentary Production Workshops
            CMDP 5900 (3) Documentary Production Topics

The IDMP Certificate program can usually be completed in one to two years. After the course requirements are met, students must provide a transcript to the Associate Chair of Graduate Studies. The Certificate will appear on the student’s record at that time or upon graduation.

Course Descriptions

CMDP 5100 (3) Research and Methodologies Seminar
Explores documentary media preproduction tactics and strategies, including basic research approaches, planning, pre-visualization, stylistic approaches, scheduling, working with archive and documentary materials and documentary ethics.

CMDP 5500 (3) Documentary Production Workshops
Workshops and develops technical skills in documentary media production.

CMDP 5600 (3) Documentary Lab Seminar
Explores and workshops documentary media projects and ideas from a variety of disciplines. A team-taught course, with affiliated faculty working in design groups within the documentary lab in one or more areas, such as Art and Art History, Anthropology or Geography.

CMDP 5900 (3) Documentary Production Topics
Incorporates reflective study and practice in a course that consists of rotating topics in contemporary documentary practices, such as media essays, observation and participation, personal histories and voices, emergent technologies and documentary media and interpretive ethnography.

Students have access to DCMP equipment, facilities and other resources as long as they are enrolled in a course that fulfills certificate requirements.

To be accepted into the program, students must be a graduate student in good standing with the Graduate School, submit a statement of interest to the Associate Chair of Graduate Studies and meet with the Associate Chair to discuss to their goals as a student in the program. Acceptance into the program is at the discretion of the Associate Chair.