The Master degree in Labor Studies requires 36 credits. This includes required courses and electives or special topics.
Required courses include (4 credits each):
- Labor Law
- U.S. Labor History
- Labor in the U.S. Economy
- Labor Research
- Organizing
- Collective Bargaining
- Capstone
Two electives or special topics courses are also required (4 credits each).
Residential students choose from a selection of university graduate level courses related to Labor Studies during their on-campus Spring semester.
Recent ULA special topics offered with consideration to interests of the cohort have included:
- Pan-African Political Economies
- Comparative Labor Movements
- Issues and Debates in the Contemporary Labor Movement
- Work and the Labor Process
- Working Class and Union Culture
- Race, Gender, Immigration, and Labor
- Labor and Globalization
- Labor and Community
- Women and Work
- Labor and Politics
- Labor and Film
- Labor and the Environment