Women, Science, and Technology Program

The Women, Science, and Technology (WST) program does what no other gender studies program does: it links science and technology issues to those issues more traditionally associated with women's studies. The WST minor prepares Tech students (women and men majoring in engineering, science, social sciences, and humanities) to live and work in an increasingly diverse world. The minor helps students develop their understanding of the human side of science and engineering involving not only gender issues, but inequalities of race and class as well.

WST courses reflect on the theoretical and practical dimensions of diversity. Students are encouraged to explore the values associated with scientific culture and to learn to synthesize knowledge across the disciplines, while viewing science and engineering as social and cultural forces that shape relations among women and men.

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

  1. HTS 2082 Technology and Science in the Industrial Age
  2. HTS 2084 Technology and Society
  3. HTS 3007 Sociology of Work, Industry, and Occupations
  4. HTS 3016 Women and Gender in the United States
  5. HTS 3017 Sociology of Gender
  6. HTS 3082 Sociology of Science
  7. HTS 3084 Culture and Technology
  8. HTS 3086 Sociology of Medicine and Health

Literature, Communication, and Culture

  1. LCC 2100 Introduction to Science, Technology, and Culture
  2. LCC 2200 Introduction to Gender Studies
  3. LCC 3212 Women, Literature, and Culture
  4. LCC 3219 Literature and Medicine
  5. LCC 3225 Gender in the Disciplines [replaced LCC 3224 Gender Studies]
  6. LCC 3302 Science, Technology, and Ideology
  7. LCC 3306 Science, Technology, and Race
  8. LCC 3308 Environmentalism and Ecocriticism
  9. LCC 3316 Science, Technology, and Postmodernism
  10. LCC 3318 Biomedicine and Culture

Public Policy

  1. PUBP 2012 Foundations of Public Policy
  2. PUBP 4410 Science, Technology, and Public Policy
  3. PUBP 4416 Critical Issues in Science and Technology
  4. PUBP 4200 Social Policy Issues
  5. PUBP 4214 Gender, Science, Technology, and Public Policy

International Affairs:

  1. INTA 4803/8803 Gender in International Relations

Modern Languages:

  1. SPAN 3241 The Individual and the Family in Hispanic Literature
  2. SPAN 3242 Society in Hispanic Literature

Economics:

  1. ECON 2100 Economic Analysis and Policy Problems
  2. ECON 2101 The Global Economy
  3. ECON 2106 Principles of Microeconomics
  4. NOTE: 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.

With permission of the WST coordinators, students may substitute one independent study course or course from another Georgia Tech unit. This may be chosen from special topics courses, seminars, and other courses that focus upon gender and social inequality or social issues of science and technology. Students may register and plan their courses of study for the WST minor by meeting with WST coordinators, Carol Colatrella (LCC) or Mary Frank Fox (PUBP). Students petition for the minor at the time they petition for their major degree. Minors are conferred upon graduation and appear on students’ transcripts.