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Current Undergraduate Students: Declare or change your minor by completing an Undergraduate Program Add/Change form.
Prospective Undergraduate Students: Apply for admission to UMass Boston by completing an application. Start by reviewing the first-year and transfer application pages for important information about requirements, deadlines, and application status checks. Use the links below to apply:
Curriculum
Required Course (3 Credits)
- LABOR 210L - Labor and Working Class History in the United States 3 Credit(s)
Electives (15 Credits)
Take five courses from the list below. At least three must be LABOR courses.
- LABOR 240L - Work, Environment, and Revolution in Latin America 3 Credit(s)
- LABOR 315 - Labor, Community, and Social Justice Organizing 3 Credit(s)
- LABOR 325 - Workers’ Rights and Human Rights 3 Credit(s)
- LABOR 275L - Learning to Labor: Work and Education in US History 3 Credit(s)
- LABOR 330 - Race, Class, and Gender at Work: Divisions in Labor 3 Credit(s)
- LABOR 335 - Globalization and Labor 3 Credit(s)
- LABOR 340 - Field Placements in Workers’ Organizations 3 Credit(s)
- LABOR 345 - Labor and Sex Trafficking in a Global Economy 3 Credit(s)
- LABOR 390L - Working-Class Boston 3 Credit(s)
- AFRSTY 350L - Race, Class, and Gender: Issues in US Diversity 3 Credit(s)
- AMST 360 - Work, Society, and Culture in Modern America 3 Credit(s)
- AMST 405 - The Immigrant Experience 3 Credit(s)
- AMST 440L - United States in a Global Context 3 Credit(s)
- ECON 339 - Political Economy of International Migration 3 Credit(s)
- ECON 391 - Unions and Collective Bargaining 3 Credit(s)
- ECON 420 - Gender and Economics 3 Credit(s)
- ENGL 373 - Working-Class Literature 3 Credit(s)
- POLSCI 335 - Law and Public Policy (A) 3 Credit(s)
- POLSCI 406 - Politics of Food Security 3 Credit(s)
- WGS 355L - Gender, Development, & Globalization 3 Credit(s)
- WGS 360 - Gender, Culture, and Power 3 Credit(s)
- WGS 394L - Radical Voices of Resistance: Gender, Race and US Social Movements 3 Credit(s)
Completion Requirements
Complete 18 credits from six courses, including one required labor studies course and five electives (three of which must be Labor courses).
Grade: No courses with a grade below C- may be applied toward the minor.
Pass/fail: No courses taken pass/fail may be applied toward the minor.
Residency: At least four courses for the minor must be completed at UMass Boston.
Contact
Labor Resource Center
Wheatley, 4th Floor, Room 144/21
617.287.7267
laborresourcecenter [@] umb.edu
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