RESIDENTIAL CREATIVE COMMUNITY
City Heights is home to the CAM Residential Creative Community (RCC), a special residential experience for College
of Arts & Media (CAM)
students to live in a supportive environment of artists, filmmakers,
musicians, and scholars.
CAM RCC members have distinct academic and co-curricular
experiences to connect with the arts and creative industries. The CAM RCC
communal spaces are designed and equipped to foster making, creativity,
and collaboration amongst peers and classmates. Students may opt-in to participate in the RCC.
Learn More About the CAM RCC
The Residential Creative Community is a way for CAM freshmen to connect with other CAM students, faculty, and staff on campus. Any CAM freshmen who will be staying at the City Heights Residence Hall can opt-in to being a part of the CAM RCC. Here what students in the RCC receive:
- A CAM RCC roommate - Students who join the RCC by May 31, 2024 will be placed in a room at City Heights with another CAM RCC student.
- A monthly RCC Community Dinner. CAM faculty and staff will attend the meetings and community dinners to present about their areas and the college.
- Socializing and networking with other RCC students.
- A CAM faculty mentor.
- Access to a CAM music room at City Heights.
- A monthly CAM RCC newsletter highlighting arts events on and near campus.
- The opportunity to participate in an UNIV 1110 class for first semester CAM students. This class prepares students for college success.
- RCC members will have the opportunity to be a part of the RCC Leadership Group; these students serve as the voice for all RCC students.
How to Apply to the CAM RCC for Fall 2024
Incoming CAM freshman for Fall 2024 should first accept their CU Denver admission in their application portal. They can then apply to CU Denver Housing. We will then send an email out to all incoming Fall 2024 CAM students with a City Heights housing contract on file sometime in May 2024 inviting them to be in the CAM RCC. Students can also fill out the CAM RCC application form here.
Any student who has a City Heights Housing contract for the 2024-25 academic year and completes the CAM RCC application will be admitted to the RCC. Be sure to check your email regularly for information from CU Denver Housing & Dining Services and the College of Arts & Media.
The First-Year Experience
First-Year Experience (FYE) courses are designed to ease students transition to university life and guide them into this world of social, academic, and professional possibilities. Members of CAM RCC are strongly encouraged to register for one of the CAM UNIV 1110 classes. The CAM UNIV 1100 courses are tailored to the unique experience of art, film, and music students. The CAM-UNIV is a required, one-credit course for all RCC members. This is a tuition free first semester course!
RCC Faculty Mentors
Each CAM RCC student will be matched with a College of Arts & Media Faculty Mentor! Here are some of our recent RCC Faculty Mentors.
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
The RCC CAM 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