Thematic Course Clusters

The below lists are meant to be helpful to ILR undergraduate students as they organize their elective course plans beyond the required labor history, quantitative policy and international and comparative labor electives. Thematic clusters are intended to assist students in identifying courses of interest around various ILR curricular themes. These are suggestions, not requirements. Students do not need to formally declare their pursuit of a cluster, and clusters are not listed on transcripts. However, students can discuss opportunities to leverage these clusters through conversations with advisors in the ILR Office of Student Services, ILR Office of Career Services, and faculty contacts listed below.

Please note that the classes below do not represent an exhaustive list of all ILR elective offerings and not all courses listed are offered every academic year.

Conflict Resolution - Ariel Avgar

  • ILRGL 2050 Labor Relations
  • ILRGL 4012 Managing and Resolving Conflict
  • ILRGL 4022 Arbitration in the Workplace: Theory and Practice
  • ILRGL 4027 Campus Mediation Practicum
  • ILRGL 4028 Mediating Organizational Conflicts
  • ILRGL 4029 Campus Mediation Practicum II
  • ILROB 4795 Managerial Negotiations
  • ILRGL 4825 The Art of Negotiation in Business and Sports
  • ILRGL 6020 The Practice of Labor Arbitration

Disability Studies – Susanne Bruyère

  • ILRGL 1200 Introduction to Disability Studies
  • ILRGL 2010 Labor and Employment Law
  • ILRGL 2060 Writing Seminar in Law
    • Disability and Ethics
    • Intersections of Disability Identity in the Law, Workplace, and Society
    • Socio-Legal Perspectives on Disability
  • ILRGL 4023 Disability and Employment Policy
  • ILRGL 4033 Disability Law
  • ILRGL 4035 Intersectionality in Disability Studies
  • ILRGL 4360 Global Comparative Disability Policy
  • ILRHR 4567 Workplace Disability Inclusion: Innovations and Initiatives (Autism at Work)
  • ILRHR 6410 Disability Considerations in Human Resource Policy and Practice

Human Resources - Diane Burton

  • ILRHR 2600 Human Resource Management
  • ILRHR 3640 Diversity and Inclusion
  • ILRHR 3650 Organizational Consulting: Process and Results
  • ILRHR 3670 Employee Training and Development
  • ILRHR 4603 Work Groups and Teams
  • ILRHR 4620 Staffing Organizations
  • ILRHR 4631 Managing Total Rewards
  • ILRHR 4641 Business Strategy, Organizational Design, and Human Resource Strategy
  • ILRHR 4664 Human Resource Analytics

Labor Relations - Adam Seth Litwin

  • ILRGL 2050 Labor Relations
  • ILRGL 2080 Writing Seminar in Labor Relations
  • ILRGL 2385 Money, Work, and Power
  • ILRGL 3035 Special Topics in Labor Relations
  • ILRGL 3055 Rhetoric of the Labor Movement
  • ILRLG 3035 Where is the Power in the Union
  • ILRGL 3875 Public Sector Labor Law and CB: The Turbulence Amidst Police, Policing, Teachers and Their Unions
  • ILRGL 4040 Contract Administration
  • ILRGL 4066 Technological Change at Work
  • ILRGL 4845 Labor, Race, and Gender and ILRGL 4070 - Contemporary Labor Issues
  • ILRGL 4810 Labor Relations in the Hospitality Industry
  • ILRGL 4870 Introduction to Labor Research

Law - Kate Griffith

  • ILRGL 2010 Labor and Employment Law
  • ILRGL 2210 Socio-Legal Perspectives on Disability
  • ILRGL 2215 The Law of Care Work
  • ILRGL 3045 Special Topics in Labor Law
  • ILRGL 3875 Public Sector Labor Law and CB: The Turbulence Amidst Police, Policing, Teachers and Their Unions
  • ILRGL 4022 Arbitration in the Workplace: Theory and Practice
  • ILRGL 4033 Disability Law
  • ILRGL 4050 Employment Law: A critical treatment of LGBTQ, Gig Workers, Antitrust, and Worker Safety
  • ILRGL 4842 Employment Discrimination Law
  • ILRGL 4865 Thwarting the Dream of Brown v. Board of Education
  • ILRGL 4890 Constitutional Aspects of Labor Law

Organizational Behavior - Vanessa Bohns

  • ILROB3240 Understanding and Improving Decision Making
  • ILROB 3270 Social Capital and Organizations
  • ILROB 3260 Building Power from Nothing
  • ILROB3760 Sport Psychology
  • ILROB4260 Managing for Creativity
  • ILROB4295 Organizations Across the Lifecycle
  • ILROB4760 Morality at Work
  • ILROB4795 Managerial Negotiations
  • ILROB4710 Social Science Research Methods