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| Courses | Instructors | Students | B.A. in Labor Studies | Minor in Labor Studies | Major Requirements | ||
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This Schedule is subject to change please consult the SFSU Bulletin. Labor Studies courses combine broad perspectives with specific skills. Introductory courses provide a general knowledge about work, workers, and their organizations. Electives enable students to examine areas in greater depth. Individual and group research projects encourage students to develop skills through investigation of specific problems such as: obstacles to organizing among immigrant workers; labor management cooperation's impact on grievance-handling and collective bargaining; use of computer information systems in local union operations; corporate buyouts' effects on workers' job security; pressure of international competition on working and living standards domestically and abroad; and child care provision through union activity. In these and other problems, students are encouraged to do first-hand investigation by working directly with those involved. Labor Studies instructors combine
the analytical and the practical in their courses. Both regular SFSU
faculty and practitioners with labor, government, and other organizations
bring together experience for broad perspectives and expertise for
specific skills. With the Labor Studies Advisory Board of unionists and
others active in the Bay Area labor scene, instructors develop and teach
courses reflecting immediate concerns and future goals. Instructors and
Advisory Board help students bridge the gap between university and the
labor scene. Students are employed generally,
and Labor Studies courses are offered usually in the evening. Advising is
available both days and evenings, and students are informed periodically
by letters of new developments. Overall, the Labor Studies Program aims to
meet the needs of nontraditional working-adult students as well as of
traditional day students. Graduate Employment Prospects. Labor Studies graduates work in a
variety of occupations. Some are employed by local and national labor
unions as organizers, representatives, researchers, negotiators, trainers,
and national labor unions as organizers, representatives, researchers,
negotiators, trainers, and trust-fund administrators. Others work for
government agencies responsible for worker rights and protection in the
National Labor Relations Board, U.S. Department of Labor, California
Department of Industrial Relations, and other government agencies. Still
others are elected union officers, Labor educators training unionists in
union representation, or journalists covering labor relations for print or
electronic media. Labor Studies graduates also go on to advanced study in
industrial and labor relations, public administration, law, ant other
disciplines. The Labor Studies major is
organized into four tiers. The first tier, which includes LABR 250
and 300, provides a basic introduction to the field, including the range
of topics and ways of studying those topics through the use of social
science concepts and methodologies. The second tier builds upon
this foundation in four areas: labor economics, labor and government,
organizational theory and practice, and labor's relation to the larger
society. The third tier, which is elective in nature, provides a
way for the Labor Studies major to focus upon those areas of knowledge and
skill directly related to his/her vocational objectives. The final
tier, usually taken in the final semester before graduation, provides
a career development seminar, vocationally-related internship, or field
experience. Bachelor of Arts in Labor Studies at San Francisco State University Tier I: Foundations
LABR 250 Introduction to the Study
of Labor .........3 units. Total for Tier 1.....................................................6 units. Tier II: Four Required Courses LABR 400 Union Structure and
Administration......... 3 units. One course selected from the following**...............3-4 units. HIST 474 History of Labor in the
United States Total for Tier II..................................................13-14 units. Tier III: Vocationally Related Electives The student and his/her faculty adviser should work out a plan through which these fifteen units of electives will further the career objectives of the student***.................15 units. Tier IV: Final Experience An internship with an appropriate labor-related organization or government agency, under the auspices of an appropriate course or A field study course, applying the knowledge and skills acquired in the Labor Studies program to the analysis of some appropriate labor-related program, organization, government agency, event, etc., under the auspices of an appropriate course: e.g., SS 680, Field Course in Social Science, or LABR 699, Special Study........3-4 units. Total for
major.................................37-39 units.
Minor
in Labor Studies at San Francisco State University Total for minor.......................................................23 units. * The requirement for ECON 510 may be met by the student offering six units of lower division work in labor economics and collective bargaining. **Other courses dealing with the relationship between labor and the larger society may be acceptable upon approval of the program director. ***Students transferring from community colleges with work in labor studies may offer up to twelve units of lower division course work in labor studies toward the Tier III requirements. |
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