Do you enjoy keeping up with what’s trending? Or reading about current events? Your personal interests can help you find your academic path. Here are some ways to explore this semester.
1. Learn how to podcast
Have you always wanted to start your own podcast? Attend the remote workshop Podcasting for Beginners on April 7 at 10 a.m. In this workshop, you’ll learn about reliable planning components to help you easily create podcasts available to large audiences.
2. Connect with student organizations
Between TEDxCU, information science, journals and much more, there are many student organizations focused around information and media. And many student groups are meeting remotely for the rest of the semester. Browse BuffConnect or connect with the Center for Student Involvement (CSI) to get involved.
If you are interested in sports media, check out BuffSports Live next semester. This is CU’s student-run sports television show. Students shoot and edit all of their own footage and write their own scripts. It is a great, hands-on way to learn about broadcast journalism and CU’s athletic organizations. And as a member of the media, you’ll have access to sporting events and press conferences to conduct interviews with athletes and coaches.
3. Consider these academic programs
Media Studies
Learn how media industries, practices and narratives shape how we think about and relate to the world around us. Participate in innovative media production work and research projects that engage emerging technology practices, seek to understand new digital cultures and strive to change society in meaningful ways.
Journalism
Develop skills in information gathering, storytelling and analysis across a variety of platforms—including television, social media, mobile devices, radio and print—using a variety of media tools and technologies. You will also choose a secondary area of study, the equivalent of a minor, to specialize in subjects you wish to cover as a journalist.
Critical Media Practices
This program prepares you for a career as an innovative media creator in the 21st century. In small classes, you will explore a wide range of production topics and gain skills to help take your creative work further, as well as think about creativity as a way to communicate complex ideas. Class topics include creating nonfiction multimedia projects, production for small screens, public performance, interactive media and web media.
Communication
This program allows you to explore how communication creates the worlds we live in. It will give you the tools to analyze and change real-world processes and problems. And it will help you develop practical skills to apply in your professional, personal and civic life. In the process, you will get a broad exposure to the study of communication as it occurs in interpersonal, group, organizational and public settings.
Statistics & Data Science (Applied Mathematics)
Statisticians and data scientists are in high demand in fields such as business, climate science, ecology, economics, engineering, epidemiology, forestry, human rights, insurance, psychology, public health and social justice among others.
Sociology
Sociology is the scientific study of human social behavior. It considers how society influences individuals, and how individuals influence society. Sociology majors may work as government researchers or data analysts, business managers, writers or editors, public health interviewers or demographers or conflict resolution mediators. You could also work in social services, or in community relations as neighborhood organizers.
International Affairs
Begin your studies with a survey of the most compelling global issues of the day. You’ll then go on to detailed analyses of international relations and economics. Courses also focus on problems of international development, the environment, international economic relations and United States foreign policy. This major prepares students for careers in the federal government, international organizations and agencies, international nonprofit organizations, international businesses and the Peace Corps.
Political Science
A degree in political science provides you with the ability to think critically about challenges facing the world today. You will develop research, writing and analytical skills to prepare you for careers in fields such as business, journalism, government, civil service and more.
Information Science
Learn to collect, analyze and interpret different information sources to understand our world. Study how we interact with all things digital, including software, devices and algorithms. From business to journalism to healthcare, you will gain tools that can address many problems. By applying your new knowledge, you can address real problems and influence our society.
Sports Media minor
This minor program serves as an introduction to numerous fields in the sports industry, such as sports journalism, promotion and publicity, the economics of the industry, and sports media relations. This minor allows you to study sports as culture, as communication, as an industry and as a social force. All CU Boulder undergraduates, regardless of college, school or major, will be able to earn a minor that complements their major degree with a set of sports-related courses.
Critical Sports Studies certificate
This certificate program examines sports and their social, cultural, historical and economic contexts. It’s a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field that engages cultural studies, the humanities, social sciences, and professional fields such as business and law. Critical sport studies is also making great strides in understanding how sport and play function in everyday interactions and how it can be harnessed to support social and cultural change.
