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COURSES
Catalog Description of Substantive Upper-Division Courses that Count Towards the Labor Studies Minor
Anthropology
Anth 122- Economic Anthropology
Lecture, three hours. Prerequisite(s): ANTH 001 or ANTH 001H, ECON 001; or consent of instructor. An approach to the problem of economic development based on the perspectives furnished by anthropological investigations in the
less industrialized societies.Anth 138- Class and State Formation
Lecture, three hours; outside research, two hours; extra reading, one hour. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. An examination of the dynamics of class and state formation. Explores the consolidation of class structures and state institutions and practices in the context of kin/civil conflict, the distortion and dissolution of non-exploitative social relations, and the constitution of gender, ethnic, and racial hierarchies. Considers ethnogenesis and the construction of state and mass cultures.Anth 139- Change and Development
Lecture, three hours; outside research, three hours. Prerequisite(s): ANTH 001 or ANTH 001H or ANTH 003 or ANTH 005; upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Examines alternative theories of society, change, and development, as well as the assumptions and premises on which they are based. Considers how they are used to explain capitalist development, imperialism, colonial encounters, nationalism, decolonization, socialist revolution, modernization, unequal exchange, uneven development, globalization, and post-colonialism.ANTH 147/WMST 140. Reproduction: Policies, Politics, and Practices
Lecture, 3 hours; individual study, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing. Examines reproductive policies, politics, and practices from a cross-cultural and historical perspective. Discusses political and economic processes and sociocultural dynamics, population control, sex preference, infanticide and neonatal neglect, adoption and foster parenting, abortion, technologically assisted conception, and gestational surrogacy.ANTH 149/WMST 149. Gender, Kinship, and Social Change
Lecture, 3 hours; individual study, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): WMST 001. Examines theories of gender and kinship, the formulation of gender hierarchies and their uneven development, and the dynamics of "family" and gender in stratified social formations. Analyzes the relationship between family forms and political and economic processes.
Business Administration
BUS 144- Negotiation Fundamentals
Lecture, three hours; outside projects, three hours. Prerequisite(s): senior standing. Develops an understanding of the theory and processes underlying a broad spectrum of negotiation problems. Students attain competency in negotiations by applying analytic and interpersonal skills covered in readings and lecture to regular exercises and debriefings.BUS 152/Econ 152- Economics of Labor Relations
Lecture, three hours; individual study, three hours. Prerequisite(s): ECON 002, ECON 003. An analysis of the history of labor and industrial relations in the U.S. with emphasis on problems of collective action, long-swings of economic growth, income inequality, and the role of government.BUS 153/Econ 153- Labor Economy
Lecture, three hours; individual study, three hours. Prerequisite(s): ECON 102A. An analysis of labor demand, labor supply, and the structure of wages. Neoclassical, institutional, and radical perspectives emphasized.BUS 155- Managing Human Resources
Lecture, three hours; extra reading and project, three hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Applies a strategic planning approach to managing relations between an organization and its human resources. Topics include processes of forecasting and job analysis, environmental scanning, recruitment and selection, evaluation and compensation, and dispute resolution.BUS 157- Managing Work Force Diversity
Lecture, three hours; term paper, three hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing. PSYC 142 or BSAD 155 recommended. Covers management issues triggered by the increasing participation of women and minorities in the work force. Topics include work role stereotyping, workplace representation and segregation, culturally based leadership and communication styles, work-family conflicts, and related legislative initiatives.BUS 160/ECON 160- Industrial Organizations
Lecture, three hours; individual study, three hours. Prerequisite(s): ECON 102A. A study of the organization and structure of the American industrial system with emphasis on its production and pricing behavior and policies, and its market structure and public policies regulating or influencing its market behavior. Cross-listed with ECON 160. Covers advanced accounting topics such as consolidated financial statements, accounting for multinational corporations, partnership accounting, and accounting for nonprofit organizations.BUS 176/SOC 176- Sociology of Work in Organizations
Lecture, three hours; outside research, three hours. Prerequisite(s): SOC 001 or consent of instructor. Emphasizes the roles of individuals in organizations. Topics include the effects of jobs on workers, long-term trends in the nature of work, and the differences in work among major segments of the labor force.
Economics
ECON 123/HISA 123- American Economic History
Lecture, three hours; individual study, three hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Economic history of the United States from colonial times to the present.Econ 146/URST 146- Urban Economic Problems
Lecture, three hours; term paper, one hour. Prerequisite(s): ECON 003 or consent of instructor. The application of economic principles to the major problems of the modern urban community, such as poverty, discrimination, deterioration of environment and housing problems. Programs for alleviation or solution.Econ 152/BUS 152- Economics of Labor Relations
Lecture, three hours; individual study, three hours. Prerequisite(s): ECON 002, ECON 003. An analysis of the history of labor and industrial relations in the U.S. with emphasis on problems of collective action, long-swings of economic growth, income inequality, and the role of government.Econ 153/BUS 153- Labor Economy
Lecture, three hours; individual study, three hours. Prerequisite(s): ECON 102A. An analysis of labor demand, labor supply, and the structure of wages. Neoclassical, institutional, and radical perspectives emphasized.Econ 155/WMST 155- Women's Labor and the Economy
Lecture, three hours; individual study, three hours. Prerequisite( s): ECON 002 and ECON 003. Focuses on economic analyses of four topics: women's work in and out of the paid labor force; gender differences in occupation, earnings, and income; marriage, divorce, and childbearing; and public policy regarding women's work and standard of living. Differences among women by race, ethnicity, class, marital status, and parental responsibilities are explored.
Ethnic Studies
ETST 102- Political Economy of Race and Class
Lecture, three hours; extra reading, three hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. This course explores the interrelationships among race, class, ethnicity, and the operation of market processes. Readings for this course will center on the comparative economic well-being of African Americans, Chicanos, Asian Americans, and Native Americans.ETST 131- Race, Class and Gender
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour; extra reading, three hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. This course will compare and contrast race, class, and gender as basis of social inequality and oppression. It will focus especially on the intersection of all three, examining the experiences of poor and working class women of color.ETST 177- The U.S. Prison Industrial Complex: Race, Gender and Citizenship
Lecture, three hours; extra reading, three hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division
standing or consent of instructor. Examines the racialized and gendered information of U.S. jurisprudence, policing, and punishment practices. Explores the connections between prison expansion, corporate investment in prison and policing technology, exploitation of prison labor, and deployment of prison-building initiatives as pork barrels for elected officials. Also analyzes anti-prison, prison reform, and penal abolitionist discourses.
American History
HisA 113- Slavery and the Old South
Lecture, three hours; extra reading, three hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. An investigation of slavery in the antebellum South. Topics include: the emergence of the self-conscious South, the romanticized plantation, American historians and slavery, etc.HisA 123/ECON 123- American Economic History
Lecture, three hours; individual study, three hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Economic history of the United States from colonial times to the present.
Philosophy
Phil 116- Business Ethics
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. An inquiry into some of the moral issues arising from business life, such as conflicts of interest, responsibility to consumers, corporate culture and character, and the morality of competition. Also considers the history of ethics and the history business as an institution.Phil 153- Marxist Critique
Lecture, three hours; extra reading, three hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. An examination of the ideas central to the tradition of Western Marxism: ideology, critique, reification, instrumental reason, the domination of nature, and communicative action. Theorists discussed typically include Hegel, Marx, Lukacs, Adorno, Horkheimer, Benjamin, and Habermas. Credit is awarded for only one of PHIL 153 or PHIL 253.
Political Science
Posc 116- Political Thought of Socialism
Lecture, three hours. An examination of the major schools of European socialist thought from the French Revolution to the present. Special attention will be paid to such post- Marxian thinkers as Sorel, Bernstein, Kautsky, and Lenin.Posc 160a- Globalization and Underdevelopment
Lecture, three hours; individual study, one hour; extra reading, one hour; term paper, one hour. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Critical evaluation of issues and theories about underdevelopment and the prospects for development within the context of globalization. Examines areas of continuity and change, resistance and conflict, and crises and solutions emerging in a post-World War II developing world increasingly connected to a single global economy.Posc 182- Politics of Economic Policy
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Examines the political and administrative processes of economic policy formation, the rationale of government programs, and the mixture of facts, values, and social forces that determine policy. Emphasizes issues of government-economy interaction emerging under the impact of modern technology.Posc 186- Politics of Regulation
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Examines government regulation from a political perspective, covering both traditional areas of business regulation and the newer social regulation in areas of environment, health and safety, and personal behavior. Rationales for and against regulation are evaluated, in theory and through case studies.
Sociology
Soc 125- Social Change
Lecture, three hours; written work, three hours. Prerequisite(s): SOC 001. Examines the objectives and scope of a cross section of approaches which use evolutionary reasoning to examine such topics as social evolution, human evolution, our primate heritage, neurobiology, and human nature.Soc 133- Inequality and Social Change
Lecture, three hours, outside research, three hours. Prerequisite(s): SOC 001. Covers the analysis of theory and research concerning sources of inequality in the distribution of scarce rewards in societies; the influence of aspects of social class; and processes involving the hierarchical allocation of social groups to positions.Soc 134- Law, Race, Class, Gender, and Culture
Lecture, 3 hours; term paper, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): SOC 001. An introduction to law, jurisprudence, and legal reasoning focusing on the roles that race, class, gender, culture, and language play in law and jurisprudence. Includes an overview of the development of modern American legal thought and various schools of jurisprudence such as legal realism. Discusses modern challenges to legal formalism by critical legal studies, critical race theory, and feminist jurisprudence. Analyzes the equal protection doctrine and recent legal attacks on affirmative action and immigrantsSoc 135- Class Conflict
Lecture, three hours; term paper, three hours. Prerequisite(s): SOC 001. Analysis of the sources of social conflict, especially class conflict. Studies social movements arising out of such conflicts, which attempt to bring about fundamental social change.Soc 140- Sociology of Women
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Prerequisite(s): SOC 001. This course will analyze the role women have played in society, with an emphasis on modern American society. It will consider some of the social determinants of women's positions and the efforts being made to bring about change.Soc 150- Sociology of Economic Organizations
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Examines how the scope and nature of formal and informal organizations are shaped by sociological processes external to them, such as the influence of governments, institutions, networks, and resources. Illustrates the processes with examples from contemporary United States and from other periods and cultures.Soc 161- Immigration and Society
Lecture, three hours; term paper, three hours. Prerequisite(s): SOC 001. Analyzes the origins of immigration and its nature, patterns, and trends in the twentieth century in Western societies, with special emphasis on the United States. Topics include theories of immigration, causes of immigration, sources of immigrants, immigration laws, reactions to immigrants, and the effects of immigration on the host society.Soc 171- Alternatives to Bureaucratic Organizations
Lecture, three hours; term paper, three hours. Prerequisite(s): SOC 001 or consent of instructor. Examines organizational models that challenge the alleged superiority of bureaucratic organization. Topics range from cooperatives, professional partnerships, and worker-owned firms to the use of participative management, autonomous teams, and employee stock ownership in otherwise conventionally owned firms. Recommended for Business Administration majors.Soc 176/BUS 176- Sociology of Work in Organizations
Lecture, three hours; outside research, three hours. Prerequisite(s): SOC 001 or consent of instructor. Emphasizes the roles of individuals in organizations. Topics include the effects of jobs on workers, long-term trends in the nature of work, and the differences in work among major segments of the labor force.Soc 181- World Systems and Globalization
Lecture, three hours; outside research, three hours. Prerequisite(s): SOC 001 or consent of instructor. Systematic comparisons of societies and world-systems with emphasis on changes in the logic of social development.Soc 182/URST 182/HMDV 182- Urban Problems
Lecture, three hours; term paper, three hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. An interdisciplinary examination of selected urban problems such as civil disorders, transportation, housing, welfare, and planning.
Women Studies
WMST 101- Women, Work and Capitalism
Lecture, three hours; outside research, three hours. Prerequisite(s): WMST 001 or consent of instructor. Considers ways in which women's labor is key to the growth of transnational corporations. Examines how class, race, and sexual inequalities impact, contest, and shape gender identities and relations. Analyzes patterns of women's work in the new international division of labor through case studies of export processing zones, reproductive labor, and sex tourism.WMST 109/ANTH 109- Women, Politics, and Social Movements: Global Perspectives
Lecture, three hours; outside research, three hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Introduction to "Third World" women's politics. Covers women's politics from a global perspective. Although international in breadth, emphasis is placed on South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and the Caribbean.WMST 140/ ANTH 147. Reproduction: Policies, Politics, and Practices
Lecture, 3 hours; individual study, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing. Examines reproductive policies, politics, and practices from a cross-cultural and historical perspective. Discusses political and economic processes and sociocultural dynamics, population control, sex preference, infanticide and neonatal neglect, adoption and foster parenting, abortion, technologically assisted conception, and gestational surrogacy.WMST 149/ ANTH 149. Gender, Kinship, and Social Change
Lecture, 3 hours; individual study, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): WMST 001. Examines theories of gender and kinship, the formulation of gender hierarchies and their uneven development, and the dynamics of "family" and gender in stratified social formations. Analyzes the relationship between family forms and political and economic processes.WMST 155/Econ 155- Women's Labor and the Economy
Lecture, three hours; individual study, three hours. Prerequisite( s): ECON 002 and ECON 003. Focuses on economic analyses of four topics: women's work in and out of the paid labor force; gender differences in occupation, earnings, and income; marriage, divorce, and childbearing; and public policy regarding women's work and standard of living. Differences among women by race, ethnicity, class, marital status, and parental responsibilities are explored.
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