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Labor Relations and Human Resource Management Major
I. Pre-requisites for LHR courses
Subject Course Title Credits
ECO 200 Principles of Macroeconomics  3
ECO 201 Principles of Microeconomics   3
PSY 100 General Psychology  3
ECO 215 Statistics for Economics and Business (or another Statistics course)  3
BUS 201 Principles of Management  3
Total Credits
II. Courses applied to the Labor Relations and Human Resource Management major (45 credits)
LHR majors must complete at least 45 credits of coursework from the courses listed below and complete the specified minimum number of credits within each cluster of courses.
Subject Course Title Credits
Economics: 9 credits  (3 courses)
Subject Course Title Credits
ECO 329 Political Economy of Labor Relations (satisfies the University Writing-Intensive Course requirement) 3
ECO 301 Intermediate Microeconomic Analysis 3
ECO 330 Labor Economics 3
Total Credits
Business Administration (Human Resource Management): 9 credits (3 courses) minimum
Subject Course Title Credits
BUS 234 Supervision and Training 3
BUS 310 Contemporary Issues in Employment Law 3
BUS 330 Industrial Labor Relations 3
BUS 331 Organizational Behavior 3
BUS 333 Human Resource Management 3
BUS 366 Lean Production Management 3
BUS 433 Methods of Human Resource Management Development 3
Total Credits
Psychology: 9 credits (3 courses) minimum
Subject Course Title Credits
PSY 303 Industrial and Organizational Psychology 3
PSY 304 Job Satisfaction and Motivation 3
PSY 305 Leadership in Organizations 3
PSY 403 Seminar in Diversity at Work 3
PSY 404 Measuring Work Behavior 3
Total Credits
Other disciplines: 9 credits (3 courses) minimum
Subject Course Title Credits
GEO 228 Historical Geography of the U.S. 3
GEO 337 Economic Geography 3
SOC 275 The Sociology of Globalization 3
SOC 358 Sociology of Labor 3
SWK 310 Alternative Dispute Resolution 3
ANT 363 Women and Work 3
HIS 313 The Gilded Age to World War I 3
HIS 317 Women and Family in Western Society 3
 Total Credits
Internship:
Subject Course Title Credits
LHR 490

Internship in Labor Relations and Human Resource Management  (3 – 6 credits)

 
    Three credits of LHR 490 may be applied to the 45 credits required for the LHR major. If the internship is taken for 6 credits, 3 may be applied to the LHR major and the remaining 3 will apply to the 120 credits required for graduation  
Total Credits
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