Labor Studies Minor

Labor Resource Center | College of Liberal Arts

Program Declaration

Completion of an Undergraduate Program Add/Change 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 240L - Work, Environment, and Revolution in Latin America 3 Credit(s)
LABOR 250L - The Hands that Feed Us: Food, Labor, Race, and Migration in the U.S. 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 275L - Learning to Labor: Work and Education in US History 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 345 - Labor and Sex Trafficking in a Global Economy 3 Credit(s)
LABOR 390L - Working-Class Boston 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)
POLSCI 406 - Politics of Food Security 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)