Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
The Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences department is dedicated to delivering a program of excellence in the humanities and social sciences, designed to prepare students for the complex challenges of professional and private life in the 21st century.
Welcome
Few important engineering decisions are purely technical. In our globally interconnected world, professionals must be able to integrate social, cultural, political, economic, ethical and environmental knowledge into their decisions and designs.
Academic work in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences provides you with an understanding of these contexts, enhances your abilities to communicate well, gives you the foundations to transcend traditional technical boundaries, establishes your competitive edge in the professional marketplace and prepares you to be a leader and a lifelong learner.
HASS faculty are recognized nationally and around the world as scholars and teachers who expect high levels of academic performance from their students. Their expertise includes:
Creative writing
Energy policy
Environmental policy
Ethics
Film and media studies
Geography
Literature
Music
Philosophy
Political science
Science, technology and engineering
News
- Colorado School of Mines awarded $10.5M in fuel cell funding
The three federal awards boost funding for fuel cell and hydrogen technologies research at Mines, reflecting growing support in the U.S. for their potential to provide sustainable domestic energy with … - Two Mines professors to be inducted into ASEE Hall of Fame
A pair of Colorado School of Mines professors will be inducted into the American Society for Engineering Education’s Hall of Fame. Jon Leydens, professor of humanities, arts, and social sciences, and … - Hennebach Program, MME Department honored for collaboration with Denver music group itchy-O
The Colorado Business Council for the Arts recognized the Mines group with its Arts & Business Partnership Award for their work to design and fabricate a custom set of instruments for the Denver-b … - Mines Ethics Bowl team heading to national championship
The Mines team will compete at the National Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl National Championship in March
Congratulation to Professor Mancus
Shannon Mancus has been promoted to Teaching Professor. Congratulations!
Young Symposium - Terry Tempest Williams
Music & Hennebach Event - Peter Van Zandt Lane
Congratulations to our faculty award winners
Ken Osgood (Left) won an award for Instructional and Pedagogical Excellence
Jon Leydens (Right) won an award for Outstanding Faculty
Mines Jazz Ensemble Performance
The Mines Jazz ensemble performing live at KUVO, public radio, on April 4th, 2023
In 2024, the year of our 150th anniversary, we will celebrate Colorado School of Mines’ past, present and possibilities. By celebrating and supporting the Campaign for MINES@150 you will help elevate Mines to be an accessible, top-of-mind and first-choice for students, faculty, staff, recruiters and other external partners. When you give, you are ensuring Mines becomes even more distinctive and highly sought-after by future students, alumni, industry, and government partners over the next 150 years. We look forward to celebrating Mines’ sesquicentennial with you and recognizing the key role you play in making the MINES@150 vision a reality through your investments of time, talent and treasure. Give now