Enrichment
Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences
Go Beyond
A variety of campus clubs, programs, and activities give students the opportunity to get involved with the humanities, arts, and social Sciences outside the classroom.
Ethics Across Campus
The Ethics Across Campus (EAC) program at Colorado School of Mines serves as an umbrella for multiple ethics-related teaching, research, and outreach activities. As such, it seeks
- to promote, extend, and deepen the understanding of ethical issues in relation to applied science and engineering education and research;
- to coordinate ethics teaching, learning, and practice; and
- to serve as a consultative body and resource for any group or organization whose policies and/or procedures affect the ethical aspects of life at Mines.
Ethics across campus also sponsors our award winning Ethics Bowl Team, which has qualified for the National Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl Competition six times since 2015.
Learn more at ethics.mines.edu.
Hennebach Program in the Humanities
The Hennebach Program in the Humanities was founded in 1991 through generous support by a major endowment from Ralph Hennebach ’41. Since 1995, the program has sponsored a regular series of visiting professors, lectures, and workshops to promote the general enhancement of the humanities on campus.
Learn more at https://hass.mines.edu/hennebach-program/
Campus Writing Program
The Colorado School of Mines Campus Writing Program is founded on the idea that the ability to communicate effectively will make Mines graduates more competitive, more confident, more successful in their careers and ultimately better positioned to influence their chosen fields, the workplace, and our world.
Within the Division of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, The Writing Center supports the Campus Writing Program, which fosters a campus environment that values and supports communication.
The Writing Center
The Writing Center provides free professional one-on-one tutoring to members of the Mines community, to assist them with any writing project that is at any stage of the writing process. Our professional consultants (many of whom are expert teachers and writers themselves) can help with brainstorming, organization, creative generation, citation, documentation, technical and scientific writing, grammar, syntax and mechanics for native speakers and for ESL students. These tutors will work on first and final drafts and everything in between! While we don’t simply proofread or edit papers, our aim is to give writers the tools and techniques they need to learn how to do it for themselves.
Starting with the Fall 2017 semester, we will be offering student tutors, trained by our professional tutors, for the first time.
To visit the Writing Center, please go to our online scheduler at mines.mywconline.com. Log in or register for an account with your Mines email address. You will then be able to see the entire schedule and make, change, or cancel appointments. Appointments are 50 minutes in length (30 minutes are also available, but rarely can a tutor give the help they need to in the shorter time-frame, so be selective). We find that most students underestimate the time needed to work on their writing, so please be sure to have a good plan and good understanding of what you need from our tutors. If you need to cancel, you must do so at least one hour before your appointment time or the system will mark you as a no-show. After three no-shows, you will be locked out of the system. If you have questions about the schedule or making appointments, please contact Professor Melanie Brandt or Professor Seth Tucker.
The Writing Center is located on the first floor of Alderson Hall, Room 133.
Spring 2018 tutor hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Mondays, and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Fridays. For student tutor hours, see the scheduler.
Thesis Formatting Hours: (fall and spring semesters)
No appointment is necessary for this service. Walk-in thesis formatting help is offered two to three weeks before an upload deadline. Students can bring a paper or electronic copy of their thesis for a format review. Students can receive help with formatting questions such as margins, visual aids, page numbers, white space and table of contents.
CASA Student tutors*: (fall and spring semesters)
NO APPOINTMENT NECESSARY! The Center for Academic Services and Advising also provides student tutoring on campus; student tutors are trained and mentored by our professional tutors to be able to help with specific writing needs and common problems that Mines students often have in classes like Human Systems, NHV and Field Session.
*All Writing Center peer tutors are located in the Arthur Lakes Library, while Allyce Horan has hours in CASA
Student Awards
HASS offers four awards to recognize exceptional student work, including
- The Blackwell Award for Excellence in Creative Expression, which recognizes those who have excelled in the evocative representation of the human condition through the genres of poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, music, or the artistic representation of academic inquiry.
- The Frank Oppenheimer Science and Society Award, which recognizes excellence in first-year (freshman) writing in the form of a paper produced in HASS100, Nature and Human Values (NHV) that examines social, ethical, economic, historical, political, and/or environmental issues.
- The Maryanna Bell Kafadar Humanities Award, which is awarded to a graduating senior who has excelled in the study of the humanities and who has contributed to the cultural life of the CSM campus.
- The Sacks Fund for Excellence in Environmental Sustainability, which recognizes a student who has completed an academic project or activity that promotes thoughtful environmental sustainability.
Learn more at https://hass.mines.edu/student-awards/
Student Clubs and Activities
Several campus clubs and groups provide students with opportunities to deepen their engagement with the humanities, arts, and social sciences. Most of these are independent student groups, and some are more active than others, but Mines Ethics Bowl Team and our Orchestra, Band, and Jazz Ensembles are led by HASS faculty.
Mines Ethics Bowl Team, which competes in the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl, a competition designed to test undergraduate students’ grasp of complex ethical issues, and their ability to engage in critical thinking and civil discourse.
Mines Orchestra, Marching Band, and Jazz Ensembles
ACapella@Mines allows students to continue singing and grow as singers while pursuing their degrees.
Ballroom Dance Club introduces students and community members of Golden to the different styles of ballroom and partner dancing by providing group lessons, performance opportunities, social dances, club social events and information about dancing on the Front Range.
Creative Arts Club aims to create a welcoming and accepting space at Mines where students can create art and engage in creative pursuits
Filmmakers at Mines allows students to develop filmmaking skills through active participation in various film projects.
High Grade, the Mines annual art and literary journal, featuring original fiction, nonfiction, poetry, photography, art, and music from students, faculty, staff, and alumni.
Hike for Help, a small, local Nonprofit that does public sanitation and community development in the Khumbu Valley (Everest Region) of Nepal in partnership with Colorado School of Mines.
Kickstart empowers leaders at the Colorado School of Mines to cultivate curious, compassionate, and inclusive communication by equipping them with the skills to facilitate and design meaningful dialogue.
Mines Amateur Radio Club connects people who participate in the FCC licensed amateur radio hobby.
Mines Creative Writing Club A club where students interested in the art of creative writing can congregate for discussion, practice, and review of creative works.
Mines Green Team, the student-run and led sustainability & environmental club on campus.
Mines Little Theater, allows students to express themselves and improve their design, teamwork, leadership, and acting skills by producing two student-directed plays in the fall semester and one professionally-directed musical in the spring.
Mines Maker Society aims to develop a strong “making community” at Colorado School of Mines.
Mines Media Collective provides students with opportunities for experience in Audio/Visual Fields, both live and recorded, utilizing experiences to provide for the campus and larger community.
Mines without Borders partners with local communities and Engineers Without Borders (EWB) to design and implement sustainable engineering projects.
Resonance Music is a community of peers interested in music, music technology, and recording.
The Oredigger Newspaper provides news, entertainment, and information pertaining to the Mines campus and beyond, written by the students for the students.