School of Labor and Employment Relations | University of Illinois

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Current Students

Future Course Offerings

Please read below to learn more about the courses being offered during the upcoming semester or retrieve syllabi from previous teachings of the course.

All questions regarding course enrollment should be directed to the faculty member teaching the course, Director of Student Services Becky Barker, ebarker@illinois.edu, or Kathy Kuntz, kkuntz@illinois.edu.

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISLabor & Employment Relations                                                                                             

Spring 2010 Course Offerings

Required Courses/Theory/Thesis                  Faculty 

LER 558  Faculty-Student Workshop  (Ph.D.Seminar) 
Rupp
LER 559  Micro Research Methods 
  Rupp
LER 591  Employment Relations Systems
Martocchio
LER 593 Quantitative Methods in LER
Martocchio
LER 599   Thesis Research 
Faculty Specific

*Register with CRN for Lecture (AE1, BE1 or CE1) 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

LER 542 Collective Bargaining
Olson
LER 543  Workplace Dispute Resolution   
Avgar
LER 590CB Collective Bargaining in Sports & Entertainment 
Leroy

2.  Human Resource Management

LER 522 Government Regulations
LeRoy
LER 561 Compensation Systems
Martocchio
LER 562  Human Resources Planning and Staffing 
Drasgow
LER 565  Human Resources Management and Strategy
Shin
LER 567  Negotiations in HR Decisions (1st 8 wks-2 hrs)
 Cardador
LER 568 Firm Performance & Human Resource Management
Kwon

 

3. Labor Markets and Employment

 

LER440 Economics of Labor Markets(11-12:20 TR 123 DKH / 4 hrs)
Staff
LER 545 Economics of Human Resources   
Olson
LER 545 Economics of Human Resources   
Laschever

4. International HR

LER 566 International Human Resource Management       
Lawler

Other Related Courses

LER 450 European Working Class History (11-11:50 MWF 315 Greg)
Koenker
LER 569 Power and Influence for HRM (1st 8 wks 2 hrs) 
Shin
LER 590 Individual Topics
Faculty Specific
LER 590E Government Regulation and Employment Law  
LeRoy
LER 590LHR Leadership for HR Managers (2nd 8 wks 2 hrs)
Shin
LER 590FW Socio-Tech Field Work 
Barrett
LER 590PM   Performance Management for Human Resource Professionals (2nd 8 wks -2 hrs) 
Taghaboni-Dutta

 

VERY TENTATIVE Fall 2010 Course Offerings