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Course Syllabi & Homepages
Below is a list of courses currently being offered at the School with links to course syllabi. Online courses are not offered at this time for MHRIR or PhD students.
If you have questions regarding course enrollment, please direct them to the faculty member currently teaching the course, Assistant Dean Becky Barker, or Erica Henry.
For a pdf of Fall 2013 course offerings click here.
Fall 2013 Course Offerings
| COURSE | TITLE | FACULTY |
| LER 558 | Faculty-Student Workshop (PhD Seminar) | Staff |
| LER 559 | Micro Research Methods (PhD) | Newman |
| LER 591 A | Employment Relations Systems |
Cardador |
| LER 591 B | Employment Relations Systems |
Cardador |
| LER 593 AE1 | Quantitative Methods in LER* |
Brown |
| LER 593 BE1 | Quantitative Methods in LER* |
Brown |
| LER 599 | Thesis Research (PhD) | Faculty Specific |
*Register with CRN for Lecture (AE1, BE1) and CRN with specific quiz section on grid.
As students complete the three semester master’s degree program, they must take at least one course in each of the four subject distribution areas listed below.
1. Union-Management Relations and Labor Relations Policy
| COURSE | TITLE | FACULTY |
| LER 542 | Collective Bargaining | Olson |
| LER 543 | Workplace Dispute Resolution | Avgar |
2. Human Resource Management
| COURSE | TITLE | FACULTY |
| LER 522 | Government Regulations | LeRoy |
| LER 523 | Organization Fundamentals for HR | Denker |
| LER 530 | Foundations of Industrial Organizational Psychology (9:00-10:50/M/815 Psych) |
Drasgow |
| LER 561 | Compensation Systems | Martocchio |
| LER 562 | Human Resources Planning and Staffing | Carpenter |
| LER 565 | Human Resources Management and Strategy | Staff |
| LER 567 | Negotiation in Human Resource Decisions (2nd 8-wks, 2 hrs) |
Cutcher-Gershenfeld |
| LER 568 | Firm Performance and Human Resource Management | Harris |
| LER 569 | Power and Influence in HRM (1st 8-wks, 2hrs) |
Denker |
| LER 570 | Leadership for HR Managers (2nd 8 wks, 2hrs) |
Denker |
| LER 590 CM | Change Management in HR Organizations | Merkin/Pearlman |
| LER 598 | Implemented High Performance Work Systems | Cutcher-Gershenfeld |
3. Labor Markets and Employment
| COURSE | TITLE | FACULTY |
| LER 545 | Economics of Human Resources | Staff |
| LER 590 N | Health, Savings, and Family Issues in the Workplace |
Olson |
4. International HR
| COURSE | TITLE | FACULTY |
| LER 590 ERC | Labor & Employment Relations in China | Chen |
| LER 590 IM | Immigration, Employment & Public Policy | LeRoy |
Other Related Courses
| COURSE | TITLE | FACULTY |
| LER 410 | Labor and the European Union (Online, but meets 6 times in person) |
Bielski Boris |
| LER 434 E4 | Employee Benefit Plans (12:30-1:50 MW, BIF, 4 hrs) |
Brown, J. |
| LER 434 F4 | Employee Benefit Plans (2-3:20 MW, BIF, 4 hrs) |
Brown, J. |
| LER 440 | Economics of Labor Markets (9:30-10:50TR, 123 DKH, 4 hrs) |
Staff |
| LER 540 | Labor Econ I (PhD) (3:30-6:30, 133A LER) |
Brown |
| LER 547 | Labor Law I (1:30-2:45 WThF) |
Finkin |
| LER 590 | Individual Topics | Faculty Specific |
| LER 590 E | Employment Law and Government Regulation |
LeRoy |
| LER 590 EO | Strategic HR Management and the Entrepreneurial Organization | Avgar |