Undergraduate Degrees

The future belongs to professionals who bring a different perspective to problem-solving.  

When you graduate from college, you'll join a workforce where traditional industry categories have blurred. Professionals must think across boundaries and work in cross-functional teams to solve complex problems. A CMDI education prepares you to excel by teaching you to seek answers in the places where those disciplines intersect. Each degree is designed to empower, inspire and challenge you to rethink what's possible.

In addition to your major, CMDI requires a secondary area of study—a minor, second major or dual degree—to nurture your curiosity and give you a highly personalized credential for your career. Our students have developed some truly interesting combinations—communication and arctic studies, information science and finance, media studies and sports business—that equip them for the interdisciplinary nature of today's workplaces. 

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BA: Communication

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Think critically, overcome challenges and lead confidently as you harness communication to inspire change and solve problems.

BA: Journalism

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Develop reporting skills and learn to influence discourse by discovering and telling compelling, trustworthy, verified stories.

BA: Media Production

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Discover your vision as you build meaningful productions and understand the opportunities available to creators. 

BA: Media Studies

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Advance ideas, trends, advocacy and thoughtful criticism through a set of skills built for our media-saturated world.

B.Envd: Environmental Design

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Shape the way we live, work and play by reimagining how design connects people with the built and natural worlds.

BS: Information Science

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Analyze the relationships between people, data and technology as you generate creative solutions to complex social issues.

BS: Strategic Communication

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An emphasis on project work alongside clients in advertising and PR ensures you graduate with in-demand skills. 

Looking for more?

In addition to our majors, CMDI offers eight interdisciplinary minors, including the minor in sports media, and a series of certificate programs. The college also offers dedicated study away programs in Washington, Europe and South America. 

Finding your herd

The transition to college life is exciting—but it can also be intimidating. In CommRAP—the Communication and Society Residential Academic Program—you will immediately find a sense of community, making friends and getting connected to important university resources. You will live, study, take classes, create and enjoy social events in your residence hall as you make Boulder your home. 

Environmental design students are automatically assigned to housing in a special living-learning community in Willard Hall. Other CMDI majors can elect to live in CommRAP, in Buckingham Hall.

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CMDI in D.C.

Intern and learn in the nation's capital

Challenge yourself, hone your professional skills and explore one of America’s most dynamic cities through CMDI in D.C. You'll complete a customized internship while exploring a new city and discovering yourself.

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