[Commlist] CU Boulder Media Studies Recruiting Graduate Students for 2025/2026

University of Colorado Boulder Media Studies Department
Recruiting Graduate Students for Fall 2025

The Media Studies Department at the University of Colorado Boulder is 
now accepting applications for our two graduate programs. We offer an 
innovative MA in Media and Public Engagement (MAPE) and a PhD in Media 
Studies that’s fully funded for four years. We would be grateful if you 
would circulate this announcement far and wide to any students or 
colleagues you think might be interested in pursuing work in the past, 
present, and future of the theory and practice of public scholarship and 
public engagement; media technology, society, and social change; global 
and international media studies; critical theories of media and 
communication; media, religion, and culture.

Interested applicants are strongly encouraged first to see if their work 
aligns with our _faculty 
<https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/people/media-studies>_ and then to read 
more on _MAPE’s program requirements 
<https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/mape-handbook>_ as well as the _PhD 
requirements. 
<https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/sites/default/files/attached-files/mdstphdhandbookaugust2024_final.pdf>_ Prospective 
applicants can also sign up to join us for one of two info sessions in 
October:

10/8, 5pm: _https://cuboulder.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0cAK7GxdAgcv6VU 
<https://cuboulder.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0cAK7GxdAgcv6VU>_
10/16, 10am: 
_https://cuboulder.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8wyhhmhv59WqnYi 
<https://cuboulder.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8wyhhmhv59WqnYi>_
International Student Applications Due December 1, 2024
Domestic Student Applications Due January 15, 2025

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Our master’s program in Media and Public Engagement (MAPE) is a 2-year 
interdisciplinary program that spans traditional boundaries between 
theory and practice, offers a critical study of the history, 
institutions, economics and social implications of the media, nationally 
and globally, combined with a practice-based media training geared 
toward civic engagement and community building. In addition to 
completing courses in media theory and other fields of interest, 
students learn how to create thoughtful and engaging projects using a 
variety of media practices including documentary film, multimedia 
websites, interactive video installations and other online tools. In 
their two years in the program, MAPE students will collaborate with 
faculty, community leaders, nonprofit organizations and socially engaged 
corporations to devise innovative pathways to the study, commentary and 
presentation of social issues. The MAPE prepares students for a variety 
of professions, both at the national and international level, in 
government, media, cultural organizations and the nonprofit sector, as 
well as for pursuing further study in a PhD. Students are also 
encouraged to participate in the labs and centers listed below.

The MDST PhD is unique in how it excels at delivering specialized 
research and curriculum while also collaborating with other units on 
campus to help doctoral students customize their program of study to 
their specific interests. Students and faculty involved in the program 
may draw heavily on cultural theory and critical theory to better 
understand interactions among the major components of the past and 
present of media. Our work is also often interdisciplinary (as we draw 
on social, economic, political, historical, legal/policy/regulatory and 
international perspectives). As our faculty are both scholars and 
artists, our work is also often hands-on, utilizing the resources of the 
journal /_Cultural Studies 
<https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rcus20>_/, _Center for Media, 
Religion, and Culture <https://www.colorado.edu/cmrc/>_, the _Media 
Economies Design Lab <https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab>_, and the 
_Media Archaeology Lab <http://mediaarchaeologylab.com/>_. Students 
graduate from our program with broad knowledge of the intellectual 
history of media studies as an important field of research: its origins; 
its perennial questions and controversies; its evolution in response to 
technological, political, economic and cultural change; the full range 
of methods it employs, both humanistic and social scientific; and a 
demonstrated capacity to design and execute original and significant 
research about media and their historical and contemporary power and 
importance. Our goal is to help students become intellectual leaders, 
nationally and internationally, in the area(s) of research 
specialization they choose, and to help them cultivate an interest in 
generating public awareness about their scholarship. As such, an 
important part of doctoral students’ education is their participation in 
the department’s research and teaching missions through their 
assignments as teaching assistants, research assistants, and instructors.


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