Michigan Tech Humanities Department Projects: Introduction

In addition to graduate and undergraduate programs, the Humanities Department at Michigan Tech also houses several special programs that connect it professionally to scholars and students across the country.

Under the direction of Robert Johnson, the department is part of the Preparing Future Faculty initiative. As one of six humanities graduate programs in the country chosen by NCTE, the initiative works to develop innovative approaches for the preparation of graduate students to meet the demand of ever-changing academic environment.

Blue Ice Anthology, a literary magazine sponsored by the Department of Humanities and circulated mainly within the Michigan Tech University community, publishes literary nonfiction essays written by graduate students in the department's Rhetoric and Technical Communication Program. Once graduate student writers have completed their essays, undergraduate students in the department's Scientific and Technical Communications Program design and produce the magazine during the spring semester. Published since 1987, Blue Ice has an average press run of 500 copies and currently appears every other year. An online issue of Blue Ice Anthology can be found here.

The Community Literacy Journal is produced at Michigan Tech by Editor Michael Moore with the assistance of other graduate and undergraduate students in the department. Participating students have opportunities to contribute to the journal's design, editing, and production. For guidelines on writing for CLJ, visit the journal's ongoing call for papers.

Pank: New Writing and Art, is published annually in Michigan Tech's Department of Humanities. Edited by M. Bartley Seigel and staffed by Michigan Tech students, Pank is a nationally recognized magazine publishing the best in contemporary poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, visual art, points beyond and in between, from established voices and from those still waiting to be heard. For more information, visit http://www.pank.hu.mtu.edu or email pank@mtu.edu.

Finally, the department sponsors an STC Arts Enterprise Team, which gives students the opportunity to manage a communications firm with both on- and off-campus clients. Team members collaborate on web-site designs, technical documentation, consulting, and a wide range of print & digital media development.