Labor Studies (Minor)
The Labor Studies minor is available to UMass Boston students across the campus and will complement studies in many areas, including economics, history, sociology, and political science. It requires students to complete 18 credits from among the major-specific courses (30 credits).
The major-specific courses are as follows:
- Assessing Workers' Power: Are Unions Necessary?
- Legislative Labyrinth: Legislative Structure, Power, and Process
- Leading and Strengthening Workers' Organizations
- Union Administration
- Workers' Rights
- Division of Labor: Debating Policy Issues
- Workers of the World Unite: Critical Practice
- Analyzing Organizing Strategy
- Action Research for Strategic Organizing
- Bargaining Strategies
