The principles and techniques of labor advocacy research. Includes survey research, qualitative methods, and corporate research techniques.

Most people in the labor movement, whether rank-and-file, staff, or elected official, have had some experience organizing. Some may have worked on new organizing drives. Others have urged members to become more active in an existing union. Still others have worked on electoral campaigns on behalf of labor-endorsed candidates. Rarely, however, do we have the opportunity to step back and learn the theory behind and research on organizing. Why do we organize? Why organize in certain ways but not others? Why do some organizing drives succeed while others fail?

This course focuses on the dynamics of social change change through collective direct-action campaigns as well as the process of leadership development. Three primary questions are explored: why people organize, what are the distinctive qualities and skills involved with organizing, and what is entailed in becoming a good organizer.

An introduction to basic concepts about globalization and its impact on workers in the U.S. and internationally, focusing on the impacts of recent trends in economic and political globalization on workers in the U.S. and abroad. Students will gain a working understanding of major international institutions' effects on the working people and labor markets from a labor perspective.

An introduction to basic concepts about globalization and its impact on workers in the U.S. and internationally, focusing on the impacts of recent trends in economic and political globalization on workers in the U.S. and abroad. Students will gain a working understanding of major international institutions' effects on the working people and labor markets from a labor perspective.

An introduction to basic concepts about globalization and its impact on workers in the U.S. and internationally, focusing on the impacts of recent trends in economic and political globalization on workers in the U.S. and abroad. Students will gain a working understanding of major international institutions' effects on the working people and labor markets from a labor perspective.

This course is a practicum where non-native advanced students or native speakers of Korean are assigned to work with one of the faculty/graduate students and assist in teaching beginning or intermediate Korean by hosting conversation tables outside of class.

This course is the first half of a pre-advanced Korean course designed for students who have either completed Intermediate Korean II (Korean 245) or have equivalent proficiency in Korean language. With the goal to further develop all four skills of speaking, listening, reading and writing, students will expand their use of previously learned grammatical pattens toward a paragraph length discourse. Students will develop their Korean proficiency through exploring various topics on Korean culture and society.

This course aims at the acquisition of language skills to read, write, listen and speak in intermediate-level Korean. It is designed for students who have taken Elementary Korean courses with a passing grade or have the equivalent training in basic-level language ability of reading, writing, listening, and speaking. In addition to the classroom instruction, there will be an hour of conversation session with the tutors, which students have to attend every week to practice speaking.

This is an introductory Korean course, which is designed to help students acquire fundamental skills to read, write, listen and speak in elementary level Korean. Students will learn Korean writing system, Hangul, simple sentence patterns, and basic everyday conversations. By the end of the class, students will be able to carry a short conversation about people?s backgrounds, likes and dislikes, attributes, as well as locations, numbers and counters. Students will also be able to talk about present, past and future events.