22 courses with the subject LABOR, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
LABOR 110LLabor and Working Class History in the United States
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (Includes P/F Option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course examines the history of labor and working people in the United States from the colonial period to the present. It explores the diversity of work and working-class experiences, the history of labor movements, labor conflicts, and the larger processes of social, economic, and political change that have affected work and workers. While work and organized labor receive central attention, the course gives equal consideration to the comparative dimensions of class and cultural identity, race and gender, immigration and ethnicity, family and community, technology, politics, and government policy. We will work to improve our skills in critical reading and writing. Lectures, readings, videos, and discussion explore the actions, opinions, identities, and experiences of diverse women and men. You will work on understanding and interpreting the materials. Short essays, in-class exams, and presentation will provide opportunities to develop your interpretations systematically and polish your writing skills. Course Note: LABOR 110L and ANTH 110L and HIST 110L are the same course This course is cross-listed as: ANTH 110L and HIST 110L 1007
Credit(s): 4 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: In this course, students will be actively engaged in learning about the interaction between the nature of work and the organization of society. How does the structure of work affect the nature of society? How does the nature of society affect the structure of work? What are the characteristics of a "good job"? How does the larger social context affect whether jobs are "good" or "bad"? How do issues of gender and race play out in the job market? Who gets what jobs and why? How do the gender and racial job issues connect to gender and racial issues in the larger society? Drawing on students' own work experiences, combined with readings, films, and visits from activists in unions and other workers' organizations, the course will explore some of the challenges of race, gender, and class that arise in the workplace and interact with broad issues of social relations. A theme running through the course will be the extent of workers' power and their quest for social and economic justice. Moreover, this course is defined not simply by its subject matter, but also by the emphasis that is placed on critical thinking, writing, and oral presentation. This emphasis is facilitated by the subject matter; by examining issues of controversy and conflict surrounding the work-society relationship, the course leads students to develop their critical skills in order to understand fully those issues. (Note: In discussions of race, gender, and class, it is necessary to recognize that there are many differences within these groups as well as between them. When we talk about average differences between groups and make generalizations about differences between groups, it is important not to lose sight of the difference within each group.) Seminar: First Year Seminar Enrollment Requirements: Degree students only with fewer than 30 credits when they entered UMass Boston. Students may complete only one 100G course (First Year Seminar). Course Catalog ID: 039992 Course Offer Number: 1 1008
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: The study of special topics in Labor Studies. Consult program's description of current offerings to find out about the topics being explored this semester. Course Catalog ID: 039501 Course Offer Number: 1
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course places today's controversies about immigration in a broader social and historical context. We explore migration both within and between countries, considering the different reasons that women and men of diverse cultures, nations, races, and ethnicities leave one place and settle in another. It looks at migration historically, studying the reasons for fluctuations in the scale of migration (especially immigration to the United States) over time, and 1010
LABOR 240LWork, Environment, and Revolution in Latin America
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course explores the place of work, environment, and political struggle in the past and present of Latin America. How have struggles around work and environment shaped Latin American history and culture? The course examines themes of environmental justice, food sovereignty, indigenous rights, and labor conflicts within the context of economic and environmental transformation. Course Note: LABOR 240L and LATAM 240L and ANTH 240L are the same course. This course is cross-listed as: LATAM 240L and ANTH 240L Distribution Area: Social and Behavioral Sciences 1011
LABOR 250LThe Hands that Feed Us: Food, Labor, Race, and Migration in the U.S
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course explores two broad inter-related questions. First, how has the labor required to bring food from seas, fields, factories and kitchens to our plates changed over time? And, second, how have workers in fields, factories, restaurants, and homes resisted and transformed the labor arrangements that have defined food production and consumption? These two broad framings necessarily lead us to explore other questions. How have race, gender, immigration and colonial dynamics shaped the division of labor across the food chain? What are the implications of emerging forms of resistance and solidarity on food, agrarian livelihoods, and the service industry? We will examine how patterns of inequality have manifested in spheres such as domestic unpaid food work, farms and food processing, retail, and hospitality. Along the way, we will consider opportunities to realize a food system that upholds equity and dignity for workers. Course Note: LABOR 250L and ANTH 250L are the same course. This course is cross-listed as: ANTH 250L Distribution Area: Social and Behavioral Sciences Diversity Area: United States Course Catalog ID: 041890 Course Offer Number: 1
LABOR 315Labor, Community, and Social Justice Organizing
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: Communities across the US and the world are struggling with growing inequality and distribution of resources, ineffective political systems, and environmental degradation. Organizing is the process of bringing people together and challenging them to act on behalf of their shared values and interests. Organizers develop the relationships, motivate participation, facilitate strategy and enable people to gain new appreciation of their values, the resources, and interests and a new capacity to use their resources on behalf of their interests. In this course, students will use case study methods to explore the various applications of organizing, methods of organizing and strategic approaches to organizing campaigns. The primary focus will be labor and labor/community organizing, but the course will be useful to any student who wishes to pursue organizing approaches to social justice. Diversity Area: United States Course Catalog ID: 036789 Course Offer Number: 1
LABOR 330Race, Class, and Gender at Work: Divisions in Labor
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: The workplace is one of the most important arenas in which race, gender and class inequality is created or reproduced. This course explores how and why race, class and gender shape employees' experiences in the workplace and in communities. We will focus on questions of how to define race, class and gender at work; how historic divisions have impacted inequality in the U.S. in the past and today; how work is changing in the US (lower levels of unionization, increased inequality, rise in low wage work, etc.): how workers have responded to these changes in the workplace; and how unions, worker organizations, and public policy have or have not addressed these critical issues. Diversity Area: United States Course Catalog ID: 036774 Course Offer Number: 1 1014
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course examines a number of global dynamics that have prevented trade unions and workers from developing world-wide solidarity; the negative impact these dynamics have had on the power, rights, and living conditions of workers; and current strategies to overcome these dynamics. In particular, the course focuses on critiquing and developing strategies whereby US workers can work to strengthen the rights of workers and unions outside of the United States, the importance of such strategies, and the difficulties of undertaking them. Distribution Area: World Cultures Diversity Area: International Course Catalog ID: 036776 Course Offer Number: 1
LABOR 345Labor and Sex Trafficking in a Global Economy
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course explores the global trafficking of human beings in historical, legal, economic, political, and social contexts, encompassing both labor and sex trafficking. Diversity Area: International Course Catalog ID: 040858 Course Offer Number: 1
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course explores the working-class and urban history of Boston across nearly 400 years, with a focus on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We will discuss the ways in which dynamics of race, gender, religion, and citizenship have shaped, and continue to shape, the lives of working people and the city of Boston. Course Note: HIST 390L and LABOR 390L are the same course. This course is cross-listed as: HIST 390L Diversity Area: United States Course Catalog ID: 041483 1016
Credit(s): 1-3 Component(s): Independent Study Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Repeatable - total credits: 6 / total completions: 2 Description: This course is an opportunity for labor studies students to pursue an independent research project or examine a specific area of labor studies under the mentorship of a single professor> The course will typically involve a major research paper. The student will met with the supervising faculty member prior to initiating the independent study to create a syllabus and writing assignments appropriate to a 400-level course in Labor Studies. The student will submit a written statement at the beginning of the semester describing the scope of the project and responsibilities; the faculty member will sign off on the statement. The student will then meet weekly with the professor, including an end-of-semester review. Course Note: Students must contact the faculty member in advance of registration to create a plan of study. consent required for enrollment: Instructor Course Catalog ID: 041138 Course Offer Number: 1 Language and Culture Institute (non-credit) LANGINST 002 - Haitian Creole I - Beginner Credit(s): 0 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Pass/Fail Only Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: The Haitian Creole Summer Institute offers a three component intensive program in Haitian creole. All course make use of a language lab and cultural activies to enhance the study of the language . 1017
