CAM LIVING LEARNING COMMUNITIES
The College of Arts & Media (CAM) offers two Living Learning Communities (LLC's) at the CU Denver City Heights residence hall for the 2025-26 academic year. The LLC's are for first year students majoring in a program in either our Music & Entertainment Industry Studies (MEIS) Department or our Visual Arts Department.
CAM LLC members have distinct academic, residential, and co-curricular
experiences to enhance community and connections for first year students. The CAM LLC students take two first semester courses together and have rooms that are clustered together at the City Heights Residence Hall. Incoming freshmen for the 2025-26 academic year may opt-in to applying for one of the CAM LLC's through when completing the 2025-26 CU Denver Housing Contract. We anticipate having about 30 students in each of the CAM LLC's.
Learn More About the CAM LLC's
The Learning Learning Community is a way for CAM freshmen in Music & Entertainment Industry Studies (MEIS) and Visual Arts (VA) programs to connect with other CAM students, faculty, and staff on campus. Any CAM freshmen studying in MEIS or VA programs who will be staying at the City Heights Residence Hall for the 2025-26 academic year can opt-in to applying for the CAM LLC. Students who are selected for one of the LLC's receive:
- A CAM LLC roommate - Most students selected for one of the 2025-26 LLC's will be paired with a roommate(s) who is also in their LLC. While the vast majority of LLC students will receive a roommate(s) in the LLC, it's possible that not everyone will due to room type selections.
- A room at City Heights that is clustered near the rooms of the other LLC students.
- Socializing and networking with other LLC students.
- Specific LLC events.
- A faculty mentor from their department of study.
- Students in the MEIS LLC will have access to a CAM music room at City Heights.
- A monthly LLC newsletter highlighting arts and music events on and near campus.
- A specific UNIV 1110 class for only first semester students in their LLC. This tuition-free one credit hour class prepares students for college success.
- Students will take a major specific first semester course with their LLC cohort; MEIS LLC students will take Introduction to Music Business and VA LLC students will take Art History I.
How to Apply to a CAM LLC for the 2025-26 Academic Year
Incoming CAM freshman for Fall 2025 should first accept their CU Denver admission in their application portal. They can then apply to CU Denver Housing. On the housing contract, students can opt-in to applying for one of our CAM LLC's. Applicants will write a short statement describing why they'd like to be in a LLC. Students will be selected for a LLC and notified on a rolling basis beginning in April.
Once students have completed the housing contract and applied for a LLC, they should check their email regularly for information from CU Denver Housing & Dining Services and the College of Arts & Media. If an incoming student did not initially indicate that they'd like to join a CAM LLC when they completed their Housing contract, they can still apply to join a LLC by applying here. Interested students are encouraged to apply by May 15th.
The First-Year Experience
First-Year Experience (FYE) courses are designed to ease students transition to university life and guide them towards college success. Members of CAM LLC are required to register for a CAM UNIV 1110 classes specific to their LLC. Admitted LLC students will be notified about how to register for their specific CAM UNIV 1100 course section. The CAM-UNIV is a required, one-credit course for all LLC members. This is a tuition free first semester, one credit hour course!
LLC Faculty Mentors
Each CAM LLC student will be matched with a College of Arts & Media Faculty Mentor from the MEIS or VA departments. The faculty mentors are additional resources for students entering their first year of college. Students in the LLCs are encouraged to meet with their faculty mentor once a month to check-in. Our faculty mentors regularly reach out to their LLC students with on and off campus happenings, ways to get involved, and more.
The CAM LLC Staff
Andrew Bateman
Assistant Professor
- Film & Television
Andrew Bateman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Film & Television at CU Denver. He has a profound interest in sound design, documentary, and fiction film. He is always looking for films that tell stories of the human condition in unique and beautiful ways. He encourages his students to take risks and push themselves in their filmmaking practices.
Though a Denver native, his studies and professional pursuits have brought him across the country from Santa Cruz, California to Albuquerque, New Mexico to Philadelphia, to Oakland, California, and finally back to Denver. Currently, Andrew just completed primary photography for the short film Go Down Diller, based on the short story of the same name. Andrew’s work has thus far been recognized by grants and fellowships received from the Bay Area Video Coalition, California Humanities, Comcast, Philadelphia Independent Film and Video Coalition, and SOMArts Neighborhood News Network.
Andrew earned a Master of Fine Arts in Film and Media Arts from Temple University and a Master of Arts in American Studies from the University of New Mexico where he wrote his master’s thesis on the prescient and omnipresent artist Sun Ra.
Areas of Expertise
Production
Education, Licensure & Certifications
Temple University
MFA; Film and Media Arts
University of New Mexico
MA; American Studies
