Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
The Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences 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.
Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
The Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Division 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.
Congratulations Graduating NREP Graduate Students!
Congratulations to our NREP Graduating Graduate students who will be graduating this May and later this summer!
Congratulations to:
Annie Strange
Emily Boswell
Gabe Stephens
Rawa Aziz
Raquel Lucero Schnell
Graduation celebration
It was great getting to celebrate the NREP graduates together, CONGRATULATIONS GRADUATES!
Congratulations Graduating Music Program Students!
Chris Matthes Erin Miller
Lindsey Nunamaker Lauren Drew
David Churchwell Kim Riddle
Annabelle Peterson Trevor Cook
Brent Janda Jack Icke
Charles O’Brien Ryan Fite
Corrie Hiatt Denali Ibbotson
Donal Allen Liddell Elizabeth Luce
Paige Christie Allan Huntington
CHECK OUT THE HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE MINES CONCERT ON MAY 1ST!
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
MINES@150
MINES@150
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.
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News
- Sandy Woodson named head of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Department
A longtime member of the Mines faculty, Woodson has taught ethics, environmental ethics and writing at the university since 1999. - Elizabeth Van Wie Davis writes new book on cyberattacks
One of the earliest cyberattacks on a university happened right here at Colorado School of Mines more than 20 years ago. It was this attack that inspired Elizabeth Van Wie Davis, professor of internat … - Mines students convene their own global climate summit while Glasgow meeting is delayed until 2021
The coronavirus pandemic prevented the world from holding its annual meeting to continue moving the Paris Agreement forward this fall, but Mines students pressed ahead in their place. In an end-of-sem … - Paper on water and wildfire named runner-up in case study competition
PhD student Kyle Blount and HASS assistant professor Adrianne Kroepsch focused on collaborative problem-solving to protect water resources in the aftermath of wildfires upstream of Fort Collins, Color …
Other News
Congratulations to Professor Paula Farca for receiving the Jenni Fellowship for the 2020-2021 academic year!
Congratulations to Professor Derrick Hudson for being selected as a 2021-2022 Mines DI&A Fellow!
Congratulations to Professor Shannon Mancus for being selected as a 2021-2022 Mines DI&A Fellow!