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Nov 27, 2024
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
Labor Studies Major (BA)
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Degree Requirements
If this is the student’s only or primary major, the degree requirements below must be completed for graduation. See graduation requirements for more information.
Major Requirements
Complete 33 credits from eleven courses including two introductory courses, one research methods course, seven electives, and one capstone.
Grade: No courses with a grade below C- may be applied toward the major.
GPA: A minimum GPA of 2.0 is required for all major courses.
Pass/fail: No courses taken pass/fail may be applied toward the major.
Residency: At least five courses used for the major must be completed at UMass Boston. At least six courses used for the major must be LABOR courses. At least three of the six required LABOR courses must be completed at UMass Boston.
Introductory Courses (6 Credits)
Research Methods Course (3 Credits)
Complete one from below.
Electives (21 Credits)
Take seven electives from the list below.
- LABOR 120L - Sports and Inequality: Race, Class, Gender, and the Labor of Sweat 3 Credit(s)
- LABOR 240L - Work, Environment, and Revolution in Latin America 3 Credit(s)
- LABOR 275L - Learning to Labor: Work and Education in US History 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 390L - Working-Class Boston 3 Credit(s)
- LABOR 480 - Independent Study 1-3 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 391 - Unions and Collective Bargaining 3 Credit(s)
- ECON 420 - Gender and Economics 3 Credit(s)
- POLSCI 335 - Law and Public Policy (A) 3 Credit(s)
- WGS 355L - Gender, Development, & Globalization 3 Credit(s)
- WGS 360 - Gender, Culture, and Power 3 Credit(s)
- WGS 394L - Radical Voices of Resistance: Gender, Race and US Social Movements 3 Credit(s)
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