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:

 

Composition
Creative writing
Energy policy
Environmental policy
Ethics
Film and media studies
Geography
History
Literature
Music
Philosophy
Political science
Science, technology and engineering
 

News

Energy & Resources

Ethics & Philosophy

Music

Diversity Inclusion & Access

International Relations

Literature

Congratulation to Professor Mancus

Shannon Mancus has been promoted to Teaching Professor. Congratulations!

Music & Hennebach Event - Peter Van Zandt Lane

Young Symposium - Terry Tempest Williams

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

HASS Professors help launch "Teaching with Heart"

Mines’ very own Roel Snieder and Cortney Holles, along with Virginia Tech’s Qin Zhu and transformational coach Cynthia James, are launching a new project called Teaching with Heart that is aimed at enriching higher education by growing a character of love in teachers in STEM fields. Through a series of workshops and an online community, teachers will study together, develop best practices and support each other in creating a caring classroom environment.

Hennebach Program Honored For Collaboration With Music Group Itchy-O

COLORADO BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS RECOGNIZED MINES GROUP FOR “ADVANCING THE FIELD OF MUSICAL ENGINEERING AND SHOWCASING THE INTERSECTION OF THE ARTS AND SCIENCE”

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