Minor in Culture, Creativity, and Communication
Minor in Culture, Creativity, and Communication
Given the diverse disciplinary and interdisciplinary interests of Mines students, the Culture, Creativity, Communication minor provides a flexible, interdisciplinary range of options so students can follow particular passions bolstered by distinctive, signature experiences. Students will take courses below as part of a pathway in Literature and Creative Writing, a pathway in Communication Studies, or an intellectually coherent pathway in both.
The CCC minor elevates student capacity for empathy, contextual understanding, intellectual versatility, creative cognition, and expressive clarity. This minor will help students who feel a passion for culture and the arts, and who yearn to explore diverse fields of literary studies, creative writing, and communication studies.
Students in the Culture, Creativity, Communication minor must complete 18 hours of coursework, selected with the guidance of a faculty advisor, from the courses below.
Midlevel courses:
| HASS300 | INTERMEDIATE FICTION | 3.0 |
| HASS301 | INTERMEDIATE POETRY WRITING WORKSHOP | 3.0 |
| HASS302 | FOUNDATIONS IN CREATIVE WRITING | 3.0 |
| HASS305 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: COLONIAL PERIOD TO THE PRESENT | 3.0 |
| HASS307 | EXPLORATIONS IN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE | 3.0 |
| HASS309 | LITERATURE AND SOCIETY | 3.0 |
| HASS320 | ETHICS | 3.0 |
| HASS323 | INTRODUCTION TO SCIENCE COMMUNICATION | 3.0 |
400-level courses (minimum of two):
| HASS400 | ADVANCED SHORT FICTION WRITING WORKSHOP | |
| HASS401 | ADVANCED POETRY WRITING WORKSHOP | 3.0 |
| HASS404 | WOMEN, LITERATURE, AND SOCIETY | 3.0 |
| HASS406 | THE LITERATURE OF WAR AND REMEMBRANCE | 3.0 |
| HASS407 | SCIENCE IN LITERATURE | 3.0 |
| HASS408 | CREATIVE NONFICTION WRITING: LIFE STORIES | 3.0 |
| HASS410 | CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON 20TH CENTURY LITERATURE | 3.0 |
| HASS411 | LITERATURES OF THE AFRICAN WORLD | 3.0 |
| HASS412 | LITERATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT | 3.0 |
| HASS415 | MASS MEDIA STUDIES | 3.0 |
| HASS416 | FILM STUDIES | 3.0 |
| HASS418 | NARRATING THE NATION | 3.0 |
| HASS419 | ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNICATION | 3.0 |
| HASS423 | ADVANCED SCIENCE COMMUNICATION | 3.0 |
| HASS425 | INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION | 3.0 |
PRIMARY CONTACT
Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Department