This course investigates the architecture of museums and the installation of exhibitions, past and present, as manifestations of the construction and content of knowledge, the public mission of cultural and scientific institutions, and the framing of visitors' experience. 

The course combines theory and practice. In the first part, we will review the history and theory of museums and discussed the museum as a public space of inclusive, quality life-long education. Assignments expect students to visit different museums in Atlanta and identify these principles and roles in practice. In the second part of the class, we use the Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking at Georgia Tech as a case study. We will consider the paper-related ethnographic collection and the sustainability lessons it teaches us, and we will partner with the staff of the museum to expand this collection into the future, design of the New Permanent Gallery on Paper Science + Technology to popularize the research currently done at RBI, with the goal to inspire the different audiences of the Museum.

If you are a scientist, engineer, sociologist, CM or CS, or designer, join us in shaping the new permanent gallery Paper Science and Technology at the Museum of Papermaking at the Renewable Bioproducts Institute at GT!

Covers core issues in the study of culture. Focuses on key sites, social practices, and institutions. Topics include education, medicine, consumption, and the mass media. For the purposes of this course, empirical cases will be drawn from the study of modern Mongolia.

Advanced undergraduate topics in sociology. Designed for HTS majors, but open to other students with junior or senior standing.

An introduction to perspectives on how developments in science and technology at once reflect and influence politics and society on a global scale.

Civilizations of India, China, and Japan since 1600, emphasizing Western impact and adaptation of these countries' political, economic, and social systems.

This survey course covers key works in Science, Technology & Society, and guest lectures introduce students to faculty doing STS-related research across the Ivan Allen College. Credit not allowed for both HTS 6743 and PUBP 6743 or LCC 6743.

Examines what constitutes "sports," and uses sociological lens to study sports relationship to education, policy, media, deviance, violence as well as gender, race and class.

HTS 2037 looks at the course of war and peace during the long twentieth century in Western Europe from 1870 through 1970 by examining its three major military conflicts: the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, WWI, and WW2. We will study these wars through the combined lenses of geopolitics, ideology, and technology. The arrival of Germany as a nation-state in 1871 culminated the centuries-old geopolitical rivalry between France and its eastern neighbor; the “German question,” would dominate European diplomatic and military affairs through the outbreak of WWI. A tenuous, and ultimately unstable peace, resulted from the war. The ideological conflict between the competing visions of fascism, communism, and liberal democracy fueled a bitter thirty-year civil war that further fanned the flames of armed conflict. In terms of the sheer scale and technological complexity of its organized violence, WW2 that followed made the twentieth century the most destructive in world history for soldiers but especially civilians. Out of the ashes of the total destruction wrought by WW2 came the rudiments of a lasting peace, constructed through Franco-German reconciliation and shared economic prosperity – the European Union.