CMCI Virtual Information Session

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All righty we're gonna go ahead and get started up so for those of you with us right now. Hello Ann for those of you watching us on a time delay hello to you too. My name is Shelby Javernick. I am the student recruiter for the College of media communication and information so if you have any questions, a longer admissions journey about our College in particular, including out of class experiences? What your classes might be like what?

Makes us different from other media or journalism programs out there, I'm your gal. I'm here to answer all of those questions and so I know a lot of you can't make it onto campus. So we wanted to have this happen virtually so you're able to connect with us and whether it's right now live or if you're watching later kind of you can build it onto your own schedule because we know not. Everyone can get here for a standard like Cmgi Information Sessions. So let's go ahead and get started if you guys have questions along the way feel free to pop them.

In the question answer chat room. I have one of our student ambassadors with this today, Taylor Shaw and she'll be able to answer those questions as we go along or if I need to answer some at the end. I can do that as well. So a little bit of history, about CMC eyes. So we're going into our fit or we are in our 5th year is a college so we had the first new college at CU Boulder. In 53 years. So 5 years ago, campus really took a look at how we were teaching and.

Learning about the fields of media communication and information in really wanted to readdress that to make sure we're keeping up with the Times so these fields change really fast and we want to make sure that we're equipping our students with the right skills. So when they go in the workforce. They're ready, but also that they are able to be proactive and adapt with the times. So now with our our college. Now we're in re imagination of the former School of journalism and mass communication so if you have any family or friends that went to CU Boulder.

That's likely where they saw a lot of our programs and also within our Department of communication, which used to be housed within the College of Arts and Sciences. So we brought those 2 together looked at everything very critically and then also created 2 new programs when CMC I was founded. We're continuing to create new miners and certificates and look at our curriculum really critically until I think it's a really exciting time to be a part of Cmgi because you're really going to be part of the foundation that it's laying.

I mean, not just participating in something but being I'm an active part of creating it So what does ACMCI student look like well? What's cool about CMC is our students are really diverse in terms of what they are interested in so no. Not all of our students want to go on to be journalists and all of them want to be photographers or data. Scientists they're all really interested in things like activism or being a leader in whatever way that ends up looking for them or just really interested in.

Being creative in their line of work or being an entrepreneur and kind of blazing their own trail. So if any of these kind of ring. A Bell for you, it might be something your interested in incorporating into a future karere. There's a way to do that with NCMCI. So I'm going to go through a little bit of our demographics of CNC I will talk about all of our majors, so you can kind of get a feel for what we're learning in the classroom will talk about out of classroom experiences. So you can learn what you can do outside of the classroom in terms of clubs and student media opportunities.

And then we'll talk about internships in careers.

Come in on campus learning opportunity and then we'll leave it open for any questions. You guys have after that. So who we are. We are a College of about 2200 undergraduate students. So we're one of the smaller colleges. On 2 boulders campus and our students seem to really like that. It seems like the best of both worlds for them because they get a large research. One institution, which means our faculty are doing cutting edge research regardless of what Department you study in.

Every single faculty member in that Department is required to do research and you get to be a part of that could choose to. They also get large football events that get a really large like or just sporting events in general. They get large alumni network with CU Boulder and then a lot of networking opportunities that come with that and then a lot of opportunities on campus in terms of we have 500 clubs for students to get involved in and so those are some of the benefits of being at a large campus right, but.

Then, when you couple that with a smaller college within that that's when you get the more the more intentional genuine feel where your professors are going to know your name. You're going to have class with the same students throughout your time here. So you really get to build that community really easily and so our students say it's really the best of both worlds. So we offer 6 undergraduate degrees. They're all listed on this slide for you right there. I'll go into YouTube. Those deeper now, so I won't do that right now.

And then we offer these 2 minor and certificate programs that don't neatly fit into one of the departments so they really kind of transcendent are teaching across majors and then we're also launching a data science minor that I haven't had time to even add on this slide, so that's another opportunity for students to study things revolving median information.

So the first major I will talk about is communication so communication is actually what I studied in my undergraduate degree so I am biased towards it. Uhm I think it was a really great option for me at the time I wasn't sure what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. I'm still not sure what I want to do for the rest of my life, but with a communication degree. I was able to learn a lot of the really foundational theories and soft skills needed for a lot of different types of jobs and then also some hard skills that are really valuable for any type of job so.

A good example of what they're studying is there studying human interaction. So what we're doing right now. They're studying that they're studying mediated communication when it happens through technology. They're studying interpersonal relationships. Cross cultural communication, gender communication. All of the differences in nuances and why things are the way they are, and then they study skills that really help them combat. Some of the issues that arise in those interactions. So if there. Let's say they're sending organizational communication. They're going to study ways to resolve conflict.

And how to prevent things from happening like groupthink, which can be a very detrimental thing to business is this idea that everyone has the same ideas and are in agreement because a lot of times disagreement in critical conversations are really important for businesses to grow so these are some of the things they are the foundations of what they study but a lot of the skills they learn are transferable across a lot of different job opportunities. So you're going to learn public speaking, even if you don't see your job as being fundamentally as a public speaker.

A lot of what you do in your job involves public speaking, so if you think about pitching an idea that you have interviewing for a job and talking about what you're doing in a meeting all of those are examples of public speaking kind of on a smaller scale, so really learning how to persuade the audience. So they learn things like Persuasion and negotiation techniques like I said they learn conflict management and resolution. So a lot of skills that you learn in here that leave a lot of doors open in terms of careers.

The next I'll talk about is information science, so this is one of our majors. That was created win CMC I was created so it's one of the newer majors, they actually spent their first year in CMCI, creating their curriculum. They're very unique program. You don't find many four year information science degrees across the nation. And so they really had to spend that first year, thinking about what that's going to look like on our campus. What they're studying is a relationship between data and people so the relationship between.

All of the data we're creating and don't just think a massive spreadsheet on our computer think about every time you post on social media when you're using your credit card or your debit card or your login into an app. If you're swiping into your dorm room. Those are all little tiny data points and it's really important to know what's being done with them. The ethics behind who's allowed to use them in the laws that need to be created to protect us from people using our data if it's not how we want it to be used.

And then there are also learning how do we use that data to solve problems in the world. So a good example of this? Is one of the faculty members in this Department does their research on natural disaster relief and actually found a way to collect data from social media usually Twitter and Facebook after a natural disaster and compile that into a map for first responders and they found out that this map based on tweets and Facebook posts was actually faster and more reliable than first responders waiting on 9 one one.

Oh, that's a really good example of the types of problems. They want to solve with this so it's not saying solving problems that don't have a solution yet, but really looking at problems or already solving and seeing if we could do it better and more effectively. We also have faculty in this Department who study health and how data around that how we can use data around that so they actually track. The the spread of flu from your post on Twitter and in on Facebook, so if you post that you're feeling sick on Twitter.

They look at that and they see where you are, and that gives them a good idea of tracking where it.

Is spreading which is really important? Because then they can be really targeted in their outreach encouraging people to get flu shots, encouraging campaigns around washing your hands or not coming to work when you're sick and things like that, it could be a much more targeted approach. Those are 2 really good examples of what you can do with information science, but it really ranges anywhere from ethics laws around privacy. All the way to coding and computing and everything that is in between so if you're interested in any level of that.

If you're really interested in something like computer science, but you like working with people and you kind of want to solve societal problems and see that actually happen, it might be a good option for you to consider within CMC I we also have a lot of students who picked this up as a minor certificate program because it's really the skills you learn in a really great. They look great on your resume. It's also really good skills to have if you think about if you're studying journalism an information science, you're able to really collect and analyze your own data.

I'm instead of relying on someone else to do that, for you, just makes you more well, rounded Reporter Speaking of at the next is journalism, so that student on the left is actually Taylor. She's the one sitting in the room with me, so if you have questions about anything. She's the face. He's answering them for you right now and she is 1/3 year journalism student so in our journalism program. We are really teaching our students to be multimedia journalist. So, your first foundational classes. You're going to learn a little bit of everything.

We want to make sure you have skills of how to make a podcast how to write for print or for how the right for web how to write for social media also how to create content for all of those platforms and how it looks different alittle different across all of them because when you graduate. We want to make sure you have a lot of skills to offer and that you're able to to be a good candidate for a lot of different options of 1st jobs. However, once you get in and you realize let's say you really want to be a broadcast journalist. You want to be the next Robin Roberts well.

You can take every single broadcast journalism class, we offer and you can do all of your projects open ended projects in broadcast journalism. So you still able to specialize but we never require you to pick a track because we want to make sure you have all of your options open so if you want to continue to gain skills. You can throughout the whole time, one of my favorite things about our journalism program is the capstone class and for those of you who don't know what capture means it's just it all. It means is it's the last class in your major but you take before you graduate so.

It's a combination of everything you learned in that major while you were here and usually project based so our journalism. Capstone class is called CU news core and it's an investigative journalism class that focuses on really hard, hitting topics. Um rooted in Colorado and they spend all semester on one topic doing really in depth research and interviews and producing content. That's really high quality because they have the whole semester to work on there, which is a luxury in journalism uhm.

And then at the end of the year. The goal of that program is to get our students published so whether it's in the Denver Post. the Colorado son, which is a new a newer online news source to Colorado. Colorado public television public radio just depending on what type of project. You complete and that's the angle. We want to make sure you're getting published that you can put that on your resume when you're out there job hunting. Some of the topics. They've covered in that class have been police involved shootings in Denver, which they actually through their reporting. Bot legislation to change because they saw discrepancies in now.

First that were being reported and found a loophole in the reporting process.

They've covered the opioid crisis in Denver or Colorado. They've covered gentrification in Denver and right now. They're covering the water crisis and how that's going to impact Colorado and what we can. Honestly, what we can do to help stop it so that's my favorite part about our journalism program. We've taught journalism at CU Boulder since the 1920s. So we're not new here. But we're definitely making sure we're teaching in a new way in terms of making sure you have.

A lot of skills to really leverage out there because a lot of the jobs that benefit you to know how to do a little bit of everything.

The Next One is media production, so this is our other major that was created when CMC I was created and it is really studying how to produce media and they do. That kind of in 4 different tracks or concentrations that you can study in media production. The 1st is sound practices, so that is basically sound production electronically. So we have a lot of students in that program. Her interested in electronic music, making or who are really interested in creating sound for film.

Or creating their own sound apps or anything like that, so that's a good program. If you are really interested in making sound electronically. The next one would be performance media so there is a blend between media in the arts and we are making sure students are studying that if they want to so if you've been to a concert lately or a dance performance or a theater show and you're probably seeing more and more screens and lights and sounds that's happening in their shows and our students are studying how.

To do that? How to make even more fun and more interactive and more intriguing through the performance media concentration in media production. The 3rd concentration is documentary filmmaking, so one of the biggest questions. I get from students is what's the difference between a media production degree in a traditional film studies degree and the main difference is our media. Our filmmaking immediate production is focusing on documentary film. So everything is going to take a tilt that way, whereas in a traditional.

Film studies degree it tilts more to narrative films, so film that you would see being produced in Hollywood. So, we definitely tell more documentary film. Not that those skills are not transferable across types of movies and films, but that's going to be the basis of ours. Also in our media production program. You get to dip into some of the other concentrations. If you want. So you can learn how to make a film and you can learn how to make the music for the film and learn how to do projection mapping to projector on a huge wall in an arena.

So you really get to learn all of that within this one program, which isn't always the case. It film studies programs. The last track is our newest one in its being added in the fall. It's called immersive media so these students and faculty are studying immersive media is like um virtual reality and augmented reality, so they're learning how to create for these experiences. They're also building partnerships in the community to use these in fields like Medison or entertainment or journalism.

One of the examples that we're seeing in this program is a partnership with the health community in Boulder, and helping with this. This type of therapy called exposure therapy exposure immersion therapy just depending on where you're hearing it from and that is just the idea that being exposed to something over and over again and then safe environment will help you overcome some fear or trauma or some some anxiety or having about the situation so we have faculty and students in this program, have created a virtual ski lift.

For the The Health Department and they actually use that for a patient that is scared of ski lifts and they're able to put on a headset and feel like they're at a ski lift on a ski lift. They're able to be sitting next to their therapist and they're able to not have to drive to the mountains, which can be dicey. Especially this weekend so they're able to have a safe environment and more accessible environment probably more cost effective than getting a ski lift ticket just to write it up and down.

And so that's an example of something they're doing in the field of Medison with UM augmented and virtual realities. So those are just that's just one example. We have a partnership with our Department journalism that are testing augmented reality virtual reality. In 360 video to see what type of immersive media is most affective to get people to care about environmental issues. So if you're reporting an environmental issue. What's the best way to do that to get people to really get the point.

So they're currently doing research around that.

So I see some other people jumped in if you have any questions. Feel free to pop them in. Taylors here to answer them and I'm also here obviously, but can answer them at the end, as well. So media studies. These students are studying the relationship between median society so everything you know about the world or no, especially everything you know about brands or what's happening in the world or who you are as a person alot of that comes through media whether it's social media and the news.

Commercials movies print media magazines. Uhm so it's really important to understand that interaction that relationship and start realizing are we doing it right? Are there better ways that we can really make this relationship will work?

So some examples of what they might study is every February. They're studying Super Bowl ads and really understanding. How companies can spend so much money on an advertisement and sometimes it flops in that disconnect is how do they not understand their audience? Why is the societal disconnect sometimes between a brand and its audience and what does it mean for a larger picture of who we are.

As as a society because a lot of times the reaction you get from things that gives you a pulse on what society is thinking about things. They also study things like representation in media so they're studying race class, gender in modern media and how people are being represented is it appropriate are they being misappropriated in anyway. So there really understanding that and then they also studied the where things missing. So where could we create maybe a new social media that addresses some need that is missing. I know a few years ago, there was.

A group of students who their project and media studies, they created an online social media for teenagers. 'cause they're just wasn't. It was almost like a space like Facebook that their parents and grandparents were on anymore. And so they saw that need and we're starting to think about ways to solve that effectively so the last one. I'll talk about is strategic communication. So these students are studying advertising and public relations and so advertising is kind of what you think of when you think of advertising.

But there are 2 sides of advertising that we're teaching so we're teaching the strategic side in the creative side of advertising, so strategic side is really going to focus on how they're going to do a lot of market research. Let's say you're trying to sell this iphone and we want to figure out who is the target audience for this iPhone? What do they look like demographically? How old are they? Where can we find them on different sorts of media right so they are going to do that market research figure out what the audience looks like develop a plan in terms of advertising.

And then they handed off to the creative advertising folks and they're the ones who actually build that whether it's a print campaign that they're building on Adobe Photoshop or illustrator or it's a digital campaign that they are creating through hand drawn illustrations or through photography and video ography. They're the ones who actually the boots on the ground, creating it.

And then we actually have another track that relates to creative advertising. It's called media design that track is a more intensive design track that you will really work intensely on on um developing your portfolio. So when you graduate from that program if that's the track you choose. You'll have a full portfolio with to go with you, you will work on different things than you would, in just the creative track. You'll work more on like product design.

User experience design things that are just a little more in depth.

And the other side of strategic communication is public relations so those students are studying the relationship between a brand and the public and usually right in the middle is the media. They're the ones who mediate everything that's happening in between. Those 2 so if I was a public relations professional for Apple, working with this company. I would be really building relationships with the media because that's where all of our information about Apple.

Or about whatever company I'm working with is going to get out right so say we're about 2:00 or revamping our values and we want our customers to know what we value as a company I would be making sure that that's getting out through the media also sometimes public relations professionals are in charge of crisis management communication. So if something goes wrong whether it's a viral video or a tweet or some other form of unpleasant reputation.

Uh situation, they would work really hard, an building the brand's reputation back up so working on press releases, working on communicating out what the company is doing to fix whatever problem. It is making sure that the public knows what they're doing as a company to be better, so those are R6 majors. If you guys have any questions about them. Pop them in over. There also feel free to let me know where you're from so I can just know who were talking to here. I know we just have a few people on.

Will have some people watching after the fact. UM one of my favorite things about CMC is our intro class so this class, which is called concepts and creativity also known as CMCI 10:10 and 10:20. It is a year long class that all of our incoming majors take regardless of what major there. There actually studying so if you're saying communication and information science journalism. You'll be in this class with all of our others. Incoming students and you studied these 4 topics conversation.

Storytelling images and information so these 4 things are really critical to whatever you end up studying or whatever career path, you take if your relates to our fields. You need to know a little bit about these so through that will work on projects. You'll get to know students from across the college you also get to know faculty members from across the college because each module is Top by different faculty member from a different Department. It's a really good way to understand what you love and what you don't love so call it in college. It's just as important to know.

To figure out what you don't like as it is to figure out what you do like in this class does a really good job at helping you with that so usually by the end of this class students know what major they're mostly interested in because they've done projects kind of Tide to it. They've met other students who are taking this class is so that's a good outcome of this class so if a lot of the past majors looked interesting to you and you're not sure which one might be the right fit. This is a really good way to just like. No, you don't have to know right away you can pick whatever.

Seems most interesting and then from there, we can help you throughout that first year really discover where it might be your landing point in CMCI and see. We have some people from Chicago and from Texas. I'm originally from Oklahoma. So um heading back there for the Holidays next week. I'm not excited about the humidity, but I am excited to see my family OK, so the next thing I'll talk about is internships in careers so.

You're probably going to college because you don't want to live in your parents basement forever. Right do you want a job you want to be independent and make a decent salary? We're really helping our students with career prep and a lot of that a lot of the career prep and resume building. You can get through internships. So there won't be a time in your life, except college, where people want to help you more so people really want to help you find what you're most interested in to help you kind of safely experiment in the field.

In a lot of that is done through internship so we have a really large alumni network and CMT. I over 18,000 alums who have companies or work for companies who want to who want to hire students as interns. We also have an internship and career coordinator. You can see on the 3rd bullet there. Her name is Christine and she helps our students. Find internships as well so she hosts career fairs twice a year and brings in employers who are looking for students with our types of.

The skills were teaching in our classes, so you know all of them players at these career fairs. I'm looking for students like you. She also has professional development workshops that focus on resume building internship or interview techniques, LinkedIn profile help things that are really useful right now for you and then in terms of internships. We only have 2 majors that require an internship excuse me is that require an internship for credit. But a lot of our students will do internships. While there here we're seeing.

Half of our juniors and seniors do internships every year so over 2 years I mean, everyone is doing an internship. Those internships can be in Boulder. There's a lot of opportunities if you haven't been to Boulder before it is a really interesting town. It feels like a college town, but there's a lot of really cool startups and Googles. Here twitters here. We have, like, I said a lot of cool startups really nice music scene filmed scene so a lot of ways for our students to plug into the Boulder community.

Hum but then Denver is only about a 30 minute bus ride away. We have a bus that takes you from Boulder to Denver with only a couple stops so it gets. You there really quick a lot of our students will do internships in Denver. Just opens it up a little more being so close to large Metropolitan like Denver. We have students who do internships back home, so Texas in Chicago. I'm sure those have lots of internship opportunities. So you do an internship at home and then we also have students will do internships in Washington DC.

We have a program called see you in DC. It's a campus wide program. But we have a specific media track that our students can do and you would just study in Washington, DC for one semester. It can be fall spring or summer semester and that program actually matches you with an internship so it's a really unique process. It's kind of like a matchmaking process. So we the the company. We work with comes to you and they say OK Taylor? What's your dream internship and you say Yadda, Yadda, Yadda, and they go out and find.

Options that are really close to that at least have the same mission, or the same type of work.

And then you're guaranteed an internship when your when your selected to go to see you in DC. Another really cool thing about see you in DC as you pay, the same tuition that you would pay in Boulder, it as CU Boulder, so you don't have to worry about any of your scholarships or financial aid. Not counting it all counts. Uhm it's just housing is a little more expensive. There so you do have to account for that and then the last place. You can do internship is in a different country so we have a lot of students will study abroad.

And find an internship while they are broad and I think that's really valuable for our students, especially in the fields in media communication information is to understand how different communities different cities different cultures are studying and learning and implementing those things and being able to learn the goods and the bads of how they're doing things and bring that back to the States and if this is where you plan to work long term.

So here are some examples of where our students have interned just in the last.

Gear Emma said month but just in the last year. These are places. I shouldn't have in turn, so you'll see. It's not just traditional media outlets right so a lot of the misconception is we're just a journalism school and you can only go to work in journalists journalism with our degrees, but really every company nowadays has a communication Department or a media Department and so they're looking for people with the skills were teaching to help them so you can see the Department of Justice, the Denver Broncos Nike.

You see some newspapers on there. Some magazines, um a juice company. Disney so it really ranges. It runs a gamma and I'm sure if you were.

Parents are working in a field that can help help you understand how their company is using media communication and maybe that will give you a better idea of it's not just traditional like a news 9. It's there's a lot of opportunities and those are great ones to choose from. But just thinking, I mean, even Frontier Airlines. You could work there with the skills are lacking here.

So as you probably noticed a lot of our classes are very skills based very hands on project based classes and so you'll learn a lot and get a lot of hands on experience in class but you also be able to get even more outside of class if there's student media outlets or clubs. You want to get involved. And I'll just talk a little bit about the ones listed on the screen. So buff sports live their student run sports broadcast show so this is a airs on Fridays. It's completely student run they spend all week.

I'm going to press conference is going to being on the sidelines of games courtside basketball games interviewing coaches and players all week and then Thursdays. They meet and build the script really work on their projects work on what the production is going to look like and then Friday they go live on YouTube TV.

Info but sad club PR SSA those are examples of clubs that really relate to what you might be interested. In doing as a career or what you're studying in the classroom and their main goal is really building community among their majors or among people who are interested in that helping connect you with people who are doing those jobs right now, so whether it's young, alumni or distinguished people in the community. They'll bring in guest speakers and do networking opportunities and they also help you prepare your resume.

And in prepared for interviews in those fields.

See you independent isn't online student newspaper, and it's a great way for you to get involved and to report on things happening in Boulder, things happening in Colorado as a whole or things happening on campus. Most importantly, newspapers on college campuses are definitely not new and they are a great way to hold campus accountable right. They're kind of the pulse of what's happening at CU Boulder at whatever University there at so it's really important for students to?

Get involved in that if you're interested or if maybe if you're involved in your high school journalism or high school newspaper. This is a good way to just transition into the college version of that. They have students who aren't just writing for them. They have students doing video ography photography. Students interested in web design can help them or if you're interested in advertising or publicity. They also have on stream positions for that text to you is our student run. Ted talks on campus and so they do one.

Large Ted talk on campus usually in April every year and that has a really large team who's helping with ticket sales with recruiting speakers with coordinating the actual event planning with maybe actually talking themselves doing the publicity around the event. They also have smaller events throughout the year, which they called Ted X salons. And so they're just little small like pop up Ted X use usually more intimate environment than a traditional Ted talk.

And they are focusing on things that are kind of relevant and the time of the year. So I think last week. They did one called how to have difficult conversations with people, You Love, which is very important around the Holidays. Right we can all have awkward conversations come up so it's really good to learn those skills and so that's an example of kind of the more smaller opportunities. But they also do plane that large Ted talk on campus every spring.

Radio eleven 90s are student run radio station so it's the largest college radio station in this state. They usually play anything from alternative music too. They'll have comedy shows on there. They'll have sports bra door sports talk shows they'll have a news so really anything you can do it Radio 1190 except Top 40. So they're not legally allowed because of their classification to do Top 40. But if you're interested in being in an air.

Radio personality is actually pretty low entry level. You just do some training with them to a couple of supervised on air opportunities and then from there, you can have your own show. If you're not interested in being an on air personality. But you are interested in the radio scene or the music scene and there's a lot of opportunities as well. You could do publicity for them can do social media. You could do training or recruitment and they often take their students to really cool. Conferences across the nation. They went to South by Southwest. Flash here and so it's a cool opportunity.

As well to build community if you are really passionate about music and then the last will talk about student government. So most colleges at CU Boulder had their own branch of student government and that really keeps keeps a pulse on what seemed CI. Students are feeling right so what's going on? What's going good? What's going bad and communicating that upwards. They also plan really fun events, like they do a student work showcase every spring, so that is a college wide.

Student showcase and you get to show off what you've been working on in your in or out of your classes and then they also help with planning the career fairs and then do some fun events around Family Day and around their orientation as well.

Alright let's see if you have any questions about those opportunities honors and scholarships, so if you receive if you're in state student receive a CU Boulder Steam Scholars Scholarship. I'm just now you also get additional Ward on Top of that from us. I mean, you'll get communication about that. Those are automatic. You're automatically considered for those and when you apply. We also have a lot of scholarships for students. Once you get here. So we hold most of our scholarships for once, you get here just because a lot of the.

Soon, as you do need it. These scholarships want to see your college GPA so they want to see how successful you are so once you get here be sure to study hard work hard in your classes and don't forget to apply for scholarships when you once you get here. Sometimes students don't think about until this summer and it's important to know that our scholarship application will open in November. Every year and that's where we hold most of our scholarships at this moment and so apply for those and you'll have that opportunity for the 3 years I'm coming up so it's just important to know that.

Once you get here, the scholarship pull does open up for you as a CMCI student and then in terms of graduating with honors. We do have students who will graduate with Latin honors. So if that's something that's interesting to you if you're really interested in continuing to challenge yourself academically. This is a way to do that and the way our students graduate with land owners is through an honors project. They do their senior year so self directed you'll have a fact faculty advisor on this project, but in terms of what the topic is you get to pick.

That and it just has to somehow relate to what setting so we had a student a couple years ago, who studied.

Public relations in her honors project was studying the City of London and how their branding themselves. After the terrorist attacks and how their brand kind of is a form of branding for tourism? How are they marketing themselves to tourists to help communicate that there a safe place for tourists to help boost up the amount of visitors are seen and so she studied that campaign and looked at it from what she was learning her classes. We've also had students who studied hip-hop culture and how that's covered in the media.

I'm so it's really runs the game if there was some interesting article. You read in your first three years and CMC I you could kind of pivot off that and look at some aspect of that and do research around that it's a great way to a great thing to add to your resume employers really like to know if you're a self directed employee or not because if you are self directed worker in you can show that through a self directed research project that's really a leg up on showing what type of work are you can be the last thing I'll talk about.

Is our resident academic program so this is a confusing thing so if you're not familiar with? What a resident academic program is let me start there so residents academic program is just a way for our campus to Sue Tegic Lee place. People in the same residence. Hall, who are interested in the same things academically, so if you participate in a residential academic program. You're going to live with people who are studying similar things to you so CMC IR College has its own residential academic program.

It's located in a building called Buckingham Hall, which is in a complex called the kids rich complex and these are all words. That probably means nothing to you right now, but it's on the South side of campus. It's a complex of a several dorms residence halls on campus and in ours is Buckingham Hall and about half of our incoming students live in Buckingham Hall every year. About 80% of the students in Buckingham Hall RC MCI students so you will still get students in there who is studying.

Arts and Sciences majors or an occasional engineer student or business student music student, but most of the students were in Buckingham Hall are studying sea MCI majors and that's really great because it's a great way to make the big campus in the relatively small college feel even smaller because there's only about 200 students who live in Buckingham Hall every year. So it just makes campus feel little smaller right so on the right is a picture of a Buckingham Hall dorm room.

It's really flexible in terms of how you live in Buckingham Hall. So you can have your own bathroom. Now you just share with another room, you can have a community bathroom. You can have one roommate or 2 roommates. So it's really flexible in terms of what type of room so it doesn't limit you.

And then um the last thing about Buckingham has the cool thing is students really get to know faculty and staff in CMC I so we have staff and faculty have offices in Buckingham Hall. We actually have a faculty member who lives in Buckingham Hall with her family and her dog and so it's a great way just to connect even deeper with the CMC I community. You could take classes in Buckingham Hall. So you can actually go into a classroom in your pajamas if you really wanted to because it's.

In your whole uh mean you can take you have to take at least one class, there every semester. You can take up to 3. If there's space and so in those classes are 20 students. So it really guarantees that you have a small at least 1 small class size that first year. Each person person second semester and then in terms of what you're doing around the residence Hall when you're not in class or in your room. They playing a lot of really fun. Social events like dogs and Donuts, which involves dogs.

Internet's an it's really usually around the time of finals week kind of distress. In com students down and then they also plan events that relate to what you're learning in the classroom. So they'll bring a guest speakers. They've had slam really famous slam poets their famous more famous really well known journalists have come to speak to students and Buckingham Hall and then they've also had people who worked on advertising and public relations campaigns come and talk to the students so it's just.

It's kind of like a hug from CMC I really just makes you feel really embedded in the community and that is great to build your first year because once you live off campus, it can be a little harder to build those relationships in those community and bridges so that's that I see some questions popping in if anyone has any other questions. We have, we can hang out for about 5 minutes. And if you have questions. We can answer those I see Taylor talked about liking him Hall so.

For those of you watching after after the live Buckingham Hall is close to dining so that's important. You have to eat while you're here, so Um Center for community is the largest dining Hall. I would hesitate to say. I would say is uhm. It's huge it has different stations buffet style. It's all you care to eat and they have like different stations based on type of food and a dessert bar, which is really important in college.

Because how else to destress, but with sweets and so it's about a 5 minute walk from the Center for community uhm. It's probably about 10 minutes, 10 to 15 minutes from Maine buildings on campus like classroom buildings. And so it's not hard to get to by any means, so bike is helpful for some students a lot of them don't have a bike but you definitely don't have to take a bus to get to any classes from Buckingham Hall helps anything I missed that you think I should touch with no K.

One permit well one program. I didn't talk about that. I am selfishly really proud of is RC MCI. Ambassador program so we're in our 3rd year of having an ambassador program. It's another way to get involved. When you get here. It's also really good for you to know about right now as you're going through the admissions process. We have 15 current students who work as CMC I embassador's in her you're there, you're kind of window into see MCI so they are available via email. See MCI ambassadors at colorado.edu if you have questions and you want.

A student perspective, there are more than happy.

It's against that if you come to an event. They'll more than likely be there with me and be able to give you a student perspective on what that experience looks like.

Alright so the last thing is be sure to follow us on social media so if you don't already. I strongly encourage at least falling in us on Instagram because that's where we post excuse me. That's where we post a lot of our umbrella like relevant content. That's where we get things up the fastest so if we have a student who's getting published or a video that comes out with one of our faculty members. In it or if you have cool things that are investors are doing were posting up on Instagram before anywhere else. It's just easier.

On Instagram and so be sure to follow us on there were going to keep building. Our content up there and then also keep an eye out on our social media for a tour of our student media outlets so we just filmed that last week and we're really excited to get up there. So you'll be able to do a digital tour of what those outlets look like. But my name is Shelby Javernick again. You should have my information in the information session email that you got so if you have any questions. Feel free to reach out. I'm really your.

Advocate during this time, I'm here to answer any questions, you have if you have any hesitations or firoz or anything. Feel free to bring those to me and we can talk about them openly and honestly, it can even bring in a student for student perspective. But hopefully this gives you a good overview of our college. I'm really glad that this is going to be available virtually so students were able to dive a little deeper than just our website and get some really in depth stories and understand our majors more than just what you can read on the website or on a brochure so.