WOMEN, SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY MINOR
Sponsored by three Georgia Tech units, the Schools of History, Technology, and Society (HTS), Public Policy (PUBP), and Literature, Communication and Culture (LCC), the Women, Science and Technology (WTS) minor was developed in 1995 as the first Georgia Tech joint minor.
The WST minor program is the only women's studies curriculum focusing on the study of gender, science, and technology. In 1996 the minor was awarded funding from the Georgia Tech Foundation, which provided funds for student research partnerships with WST minor faculty. The WST minor was converted from a quarter program to a semester program in 1997.
WST Minor Co-coordinators
Dr.Carol Colatrella (LCC) and Dr.Mary Frank Fox (Public Policy)
Requirements
| Women, Science and Technology Minor | |
| Each minor must take the two (2) of the following courses from two different schools | HTS 3020: Gender and Technology |
| HTS 3021: Women in Science and Engineering | |
| LCC 3304: Science, Technology, and Gender | |
| PUBP 4212: Women and Public Policy | |
| PUBP 4803: Gender, Science, and Technology | |
| PUBP 4214: Gender, Science, Technology, and Public Policy | |
| Each minor also chooses four (4) courses from the following list OR from the list above. The four elective courses must be offered by at least two different Ivan Allen College schools. | |
| History, Technology, and Society | HTS 2082 Technology and Science in the Industrial Age |
| HTS 2084 Technology and Society | |
| HTS 3007 Sociology of Work, Industry, and Occupations | |
| HTS 3016 Women and Gender in the United States | |
| HTS 3017 Sociology of Gender | |
| HTS 3082 Sociology of Science | |
| HTS 3084 Culture and Technology | |
| HTS 3086 Sociology of Medicine and Health | |
| Literature, Communication, and Culture | LCC 2100 Introduction to Science, Technology, and Culture |
| LCC 2200 Introduction to Gender Studies | |
| LCC 3212 Women, Literature, and Culture | |
| LCC 3219 Literature and Medicine | |
| LCC 3225 Gender in the Disciplines [replaced LCC 3224 Gender Studies] | |
| LCC 3302 Science, Technology, and Ideology | |
| LCC 3306 Science, Technology, and Race | |
| LCC 3308 Environmentalism and Ecocriticism | |
| LCC 3316 Science, Technology, and Postmodernism | |
| LCC 3318 Biomedicine and Culture | |
| Public Policy | PUBP 2012 Foundations of Public Policy |
| PUBP 4410 Science, Technology, and Public Policy | |
| PUBP 4416 Critical Issues in Science and Technology | |
| PUBP 4200 Social Policy Issues | |
| PUBP 4214 Gender, Science, Technology, and Public Policy | |
| International Affairs | INTA 4803/8803 Gender in International Relations |
| Modern Languages | SPAN 3241 The Individual and the Family in Hispanic Literature |
| SPAN 3242 Society in Hispanic Literature | |
| Economics | ECON 2100 Economic Analysis and Policy Problems |
| ECON 2101 The Global Economy | |
| ECON 2106 Principles of Microeconomics | |
| Total Credit Hours | 18 credits (6 courses) |
Students can receive credit for either ECON 2100 or ECON 2101, or for ECON 2105/2106. Students cannot receive credit for ECON 2100 and ECON 2101, or for ECON 2100 and ECON 2105/2106, or for ECON 2101 and ECON 2105/2106.
More Information
For more information, please visit the following websites:
Women, Science, and Technology Minor website
Georgia Tech Catalog