Labor Studies Minor

Labor Resource Center | College of Liberal Arts

Program Declaration

Completion of a Major, Minor, Concentration Declaration Form .

Minor Requirements

Complete 18 credits from sox courses including one required labor studies course and five electives.

Grade: No courses with a grade below C- may be applied toward the minor.
Pass/fail: No courses taken pass/fail may be applied toward the minor.
Residency: At least four courses for the minor must be completed at UMass Boston.

Course Requirements

Required Course (3 Credits)

LABOR 210L Labor and Working Class History in the United States 3 Credit(s)

Electives (15 Credits)

Take five courses from the list below. At least three must be LABOR courses.

LABOR 220 Bargaining Strategies 3 Credit(s)
LABOR 230 Labor, Politics, and Policy 3 Credit(s)
LABOR 315 Labor, Community, and Social Justice Organizing 3 Credit(s)
LABOR 325 Workers’ Rights and Human Rights 3 Credit(s)
LABOR 330 Race, Class, and Gender at Work: Divisions in Labor 3 Credit(s)
LABOR 335 Globalization and Labor 3 Credit(s)
LABOR 340 Field Placements in Workers’ Organizations 3 Credit(s)
LABOR 490 Capstone: Strategic Analysis for Workers’ Organizations 3 Credit(s)
AFRSTY 350L Race, Class, and Gender: Issues in US Diversity 3 Credit(s)
AMST 360 Work, Society, and Culture in Modern America 3 Credit(s)
AMST 405 The Immigrant Experience 3 Credit(s)
AMST 440L United States in a Global Context 3 Credit(s)
ECON 339 Political Economy of International Migration 3 Credit(s)
ECON 390 Labor Market Economics 3 Credit(s)
ECON 420 Gender and Economics 3 Credit(s)
ENGL 373 Working-Class Literature 3 Credit(s)
POLSCI 322 Politics of Poverty and U.S. Social Welfare Policy 3 Credit(s)
POLSCI 335 Law and Public Policy (A) 3 Credit(s)
WGS 355L Gender, Development and Globalization 3 Credit(s)
WGS 360 Gender, Culture, and Power 3 Credit(s)
WGS 394L Women in US Social Movements 3 Credit(s)