College of Liberal Arts - Ivan Allen College (IAC)
Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts offers an array of undergraduate and graduate degrees that provide opportunities to discover and develop a variety of skills and interests. All IAC degrees include options for students to branch out into areas of learning in addition to their major, through minors, certificates, non-major clusters, and free electives.
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Sub-communities within this community
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College of Liberal Arts Invited Speakers and Lectures [1]
Events hosted or sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts - Ivan Allen College -
School of Economics [251]
The School of Economics' Mission is to provide our students with the ability to understand and analyze economic phenomena in technologically complex environments, to contribute to the body of economic knowledge, and to ... -
School of History and Sociology (HSOC) [81]
An interdisciplinary unit consisting of scholars from history and sociology. HTS brings the perspective of the social sciences to bear on critical issues facing the modern world, while providing a source of analysis that ... -
School of Literature, Media, and Communication (LMC) [324]
The School of Literature, Media, and Communication focuses on technologies of representation in traditional and new media texts, including cultural studies of science and technology, digital media studies, and the study ... -
School of Modern Languages (ML) [26]
The School of Modern Languages collaborates as an interdisciplinary partner with other units in the Ivan Allen College and across campus to prepare future participants in the global workforce through applied studies in ... -
School of Public Policy [1344]
The Georgia Tech School of Public Policy is an interdisciplinary learning community exploring the policy implications of science and technology. -
The Sam Nunn School of International Affairs [1025]
The School of International Affairs, the only school of its kind at a major technological university in the United States. Created in 1990, and named in honor of former U.S. Senator Sam Nunn in 1996, the School is committed ...
Collections in this community
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Annual Founder's Day Celebration [13]
Celebrating the legacy of the College's namesake, Ivan Allen, Jr. (1910-2003) -
Art History of Games Symposium [17]
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, February 4-6, 2010 -
Ivan Allen College Brochures [16]
Informational brochures on the degrees and programs offered by Ivan Allen College. -
Ivan Allen College NEWSLetters [96]
The online newsletter of Ivan Allen College. -
LINK [Ivan Allen College Student Advisory Board Newsletter] [7]
The newsletter of the Ivan Allen College Student Advisory Board. -
SOAR: Symposium on Opportunity and Access Research [3]
A workshop-style mini-retreat on common areas of research within IAC
Recent Submissions
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Factors Determining 2001 Standardized Elementary Level Reading Scores in Michigan
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-11)Elementary level reading comprehension is an essential skill which students need in order to excel in secondary school as well as undergraduate level language courses. Using a dataset from 4th grade standardized reading ... -
The Impact of Education on GDP per Capita
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-11)Education plays an important role in a country’s economic growth. This paper looks at the impact of education on the gdp per capita of different countries across the globe. The data comes from the World Bank and from the ... -
Exploring the Relationship Between Commute Times and Property Value
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-11)This analysis seeks to determine a correlation between home property values and commuting times in the United States. Different methods of transportation are considered both independently and combined. Factors such as age ... -
The Analysis of the Effect of Women's Employment Rate on Fertility Across States in United States
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-11)This paper utilizes the approach of cross-sectional data to analyze the effect of women's employment rate on fertility across states in the United States. In recent years, there is a decline in women's fertility rates ... -
The SAT Anomaly: Does Average Class Size Impact Average SAT Score?
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-11)Because the SAT has the potential to set the trajectory of students’ educational careers, the SAT is arguably the most important examination for most American high-schoolers. Considering the importance of the SAT examination, ... -
The Effect of Education Expenditure on Adolescent Fertility Rates
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-11)This paper analyzes the relationship between education expenditure and the adolescent fertility rate through a cross-country analysis of 169 countries. The other factors that this paper will consider are life expectancy ... -
The Cross-Country Effects of Education Level on Savings Rate
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-11)This analysis attempts to find the relationship between the education level of the people of a country and the savings rate of the people in a country at the global scale. Previous research has found there to be a positive ... -
Relationship between Income and Cost of Living in US Cities
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-11)This paper examines the relationship between the cost of living and median household income. The hypothesis is that there is a positive correlation between the two variables, where the median income is higher in areas with ... -
The Cross Country Effect of Patent Applications on Ease of Doing Business
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-11)Innovation and technological progress have long played a critical role in the economic growth of countries. While this relationship has been studied many times, it is not clear exactly how patents play into this equation. ... -
Family Size and Mortgage Loan Amounts
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-11)This paper seeks to uncover potential mortgage loan discrimination related to family size for Boston mortgage loan applicants in 1989. We utilize mortgage loan amounts as the primary dependent variable and an applicant’s ... -
Child Mortality & Health Expenditure: A Cross-Country Analysis
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-11)This paper attempts to analyze the effect healthcare expenditure has on child mortality rates. Despite research already being done in this field, child mortality continues to be a problem in the global economy. While the ... -
A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF OWNERSHIP-INDUCED QUALITY GAPS IN THE LONG-TERM CARE SECTOR: INFLUENCES OF OWNERSHIP CONVERSIONS, SELF-REPORTING, REGULATORY REFORMS, AND THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-08-01)This dissertation presents a quantitative analysis of the association between ownership types and quality of services in the long-term care sector in the United States. The study employs dynamic difference-in-differences ... -
Essays on Environmental, Fiscal, and Demand-Side Policies in Electricity Markets
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-08-01)Essays on Environmental, Fiscal, and Demand-Side Policies in Electricity Markets” -
Perreo femme-inism: an avenue to reclaim, reject, and redefine cultural norms within Borinquen society
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-08-01)Puerto Rico is positioned at the epicenter of many of the debates involving questions of colorism, misogyny, sexual liberation, and gender expression in reggaetón and perreo, due to its role in shaping these cultures. What ... -
Bilateral negotiations, vertical contracting, and firm behaviors in network
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-08-03)In the last two decades, the internet industry has changed dramatically, especially for interconnection relationships. With the booming video-streaming services, internet service providers (ISPs) have been trying hard to ... -
Heroes and Villains in Japanese Manga: A Dissection of Role Language
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-07-30)This thesis works on the notion of role language of two teenage boy hero-in-training protagonists from two popular Japanese manga, Demon Slayer and My Hero Academia, as well as two of their many villain antagonists. Role ... -
Science Gone Wrong: Understanding scientific work by examining "failures" across productions, consumptions, and careers in science
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-08-01)This dissertation examines “failures” across three different dimensions of the production of science (production of data, impacts, careers) to further expand our understanding of scientific work, thereby providing effective ... -
‘REAL-EXISTING’ UTOPIA: CREATING A TECHNOLOGICAL CULTURE IN THE GDR 1945-1989
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-05-23)This dissertation explores the creation of a technological culture in the German Democratic Republic in order to entice its citizens to not only become state engineers, but also to work toward a state sponsored vision of ... -
Setting the Agenda for AI: Actors, Issues, and Influence in United States Artificial Intelligence Policy
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-06-02)As research and adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) has significantly advanced in the early 21st century, determining how to govern AI has become a global priority. Key questions include how AI should be understood ... -
Challenges in the electrification of transportation: electric vehicle charging behavior, micromobility for urban transportation, and cost reductions in battery technologies
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-08-03)This dissertation work explores three questions related to some of the challenges present in the ongoing electrification of transportation. Specifically, I target issues related to electric vehicle charging at the workplace, ...
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