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 [205]
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) [76]
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) [314]
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) [17]
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 [1335]
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 [1031]
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 [15]
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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Documenting Wuhan: Q&A with Filmmaker Wu Hao
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-02-15)Documenting Wuhan: Q&A with Filmmaker Hao Wu. -
“Kenne Mich” Podcast Series
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020)Episode 1: Family Ties. This episode uncovers the impact of familiar relationships for Afro-Germans and black people in Germany, specifically analyzing the relationship with one’s African heritage and how it effects their ... -
Essays on the Economics of Climate Change and Geoengineering
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-12-06)In this dissertation, I examine the relationship between climate and economic activity. In particular, I analyze methods for the measurement of climate change impacts on macroeconomic outcomes and the role of solar ... -
Trust, Distance, and Design
American democracy is currently experiencing a “crisis in trust” as American's trust in their government has decreased significantly over the past half-century. To restore trust in government, public officials and technologists ... -
Monstrous Existence: a critical reading of Night in the Woods through the works of Mark Fisher
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-12-05)This thesis presents a critical close reading of the 2017 videogame Night in the Woods, developed by independent studio Infinite Fall. Following literary critic Irving Howe's notion of the "political novel," this thesis ... -
Communicable diseases are not communicable
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-10)Communicable disease is a misnomer. The disease is not communicable; the microbe mainly associated with the disease is communicable. Whether the recipient of the microbe develops the disease depends on the health of the ... -
COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Considerations
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020)The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has produced global health and economic adverse impacts. The main measures being taken to control the spread of SARS-CoV-2 and of the virus-associated diseases (COVID-19) are conceptually those that ... -
The crowning of king cotton in the American south: Evidence from 1840 to 1975
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-07-28)This is an episode of Southern cotton kingdom across the antebellum and postbellum periods. The study includes two events to explore the importance of cotton during the antebellum and postbellum periods. The study first ... -
All data are human: The human infrastructure of civic data
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-07-27)This dissertation is grounded in issues related to the publicizing of data, which include issues of equitable access, interpretation and use. By engaging with scholarship from Human Computer Interaction and Science and ... -
Driving green: Employment effects, policy adoption, and public perceptions of electric vehicles
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-06-03)Energy for usage in the transportation sector is primarily derived from petroleum products and accounts for 14% (EPA 2017a) of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide and 28% (EPA 2018b) of total emissions in the US. In the US. ... -
Risk and expression: Physical and material risk states in computational music practices
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-05-17)This research investigates qualities of physical and material risk within musical performance practices and the value that such properties may hold for less physical engagements afforded by computational instruments. The ... -
The birth of the Taipei Metro and technological hybridity under American hegemony: The history of the rail mass transportation in postwar Taiwan
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-05-18)This dissertation discusses how a complex rail mass transportation emerged in postwar Taiwan, with particular emphasis on the role of U.S.-Taiwan relations in shaping Taiwan's profession of transportation studies and ... -
Race space: The transformation of iconic motorsport circuits from public use to large technical system (1950 – 2010)
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-07-23)The 1950s marked the beginning of a key transformational period in automobility and the socio-technical realm of motorsports. However, the car was not at the heart of the narrative which was much more complex. In Post-War ... -
COVID-19: Preventing Future Pandemics
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020)The COVID-19 pandemic has had global health and economic adverse impacts. The main measures being taken to control the spread of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus associated with COVID-19) are conceptually those that were taken to ... -
Essays on financial economics
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-04-24)This dissertation explores the problem of what kind of impacts can education of employees have on firms’ financial and economical performances, the problem of how monetary policy made by Federal Reserve Bank can influence ... -
Internalizing externalities: Roles of networks, clubs and policy commitments
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-04-26)Externalities arising from actions of one player in the economy and directly affecting the well-being of another are ubiquitous. In these situations, market equilibria often fail to be efficient. This dissertation explores ... -
For the birds: Researching theory and practice in environmental conservation policy processes
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-04-16)This dissertation explores how policy processes and decision-making structures influence environmental management in public agencies. It contributes to our understanding of how traditional bureaucratic systems of organization ... -
Market-based approaches for postharvest loss reduction
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-03-16)Do farmers in contract farming (CF) arrangements have lower levels of postharvest losses than do farmers who do not participate in contract farming? Does our current understanding of postharvest losses overlook other ... -
Path-dependencies faced by select policies toward solid-state lighting
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-12-18)The studies in this dissertation – concerning inter-firm R&D collaboration, patent production and sharing, and electric power infrastructure – will illustrate the influence of path-dependency on outcomes delivered by ... -
Combining Tactical and Strategic Treatments for COVID-19
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-03)As of mid-March, 2020, many countries in the world are on partial lockdown, to control the spread of the pandemic (COVID-19) resulting from the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. The only effective ‘treatments’ at this time are good ...