Humanistic studies explore the memorial record of the human imagination and intellect, discovering, recreating, and critically examining the essential core of experience that sustains the human spirit. The Humanities minor is a way for students to explore a particular thematic focus within one or several humanistic disciplines, including literature, creative writing, history, philosophy and ethics, art, and music.

One way to select a thematic focus is to choose courses from a single humanistic discipline. For example, a student might focus on literature, building a minor from 18 hours of literature courses. Students may instead choose to investigate a theme from several different disciplinary perspectives. For example, a thematic focus on humanistic studies of science and technology could include history, literature, and philosophy courses.

Requirements for the Humanities Minor/ASI

• The minor requires 18 credits of thematically coherent courses, and the ASI requires 12 credits of thematically coherent courses. Students must work with the Humanities advisor to select an appropriate set of classes.
• For a minor, no more than six credits total may come from 100 or 200 level courses, and for the ASI, no more than three credits may be earned in 100 or 200 level courses. Please also note that only two language courses can be counted towards the humanities minor, and only one toward the ASI. Like all other courses, a language course must be appropriate for the chosen theme.
• No more than one half of the required credit hours may be filled by transferred courses. Further, all transfer courses to be included in the minor must be approved by the minor advisor.
• Courses in music performance and studio art may not be included in the minor.

Sample Courses:
LAIS 306 African American Literature: Foundations to Present
LAIS 315 Musical Traditions of the Western World
LAIS 321 Political Philosophy and Engineering
LAIS 325 Cultural Anthropology
LAIS 365 History of War

Program Advisor:  Dr. Tina Gianquitto

Hennebach Program in the Humanities
Given increased recognition of the importance of the humanities in engineering education, LAIS offers the Hennebach Program in the Humanties to explore opportunities for meeting the needs of undergraduate students — especially engineering and applied science students who aspire to assuming leadership roles in the technical world. Previous events include visiting scholars in classics, environmental studies, ethics, history, literature, philosophy, and social theory as well as the interdisciplinary fields of environmental, policy, and science- technology-society studies. Please go to Hennebach Program for more information.

Humanities Events

World Wide Views on
Global Warming
Saturday September 26, 2009
Colorado School of Mines

The Hennebach Program in the Humanities is proud to sponsor the Colorado site for World Wide Views on Global Warming. At this day-long event, participants from over 40 countries examine climate change in-depth and develop recommendations for the December United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.

Click here for more event information.
Click here for an application.

Contact:
Sandy Woodson
worldwideviewscolorado@gmail.com 303.384.2335.