3.5 Course Overviews: "L"
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LABOUR STUDIES (LBST)
(See also CMNS 311, HIST 336, HIST 470
, HIST 471, HIST 472,
HIST 486, IDRL courses, LGST 310,
ORGB 387, and SOCI 321)
LBST 200
Introduction to Labour Studies
3—Social Science
Delivery Mode: Individualized study or e-Class®.
Prerequisite: None.
This course examines the field of labour studies and the place of working people and the labour movement in society. It provides an overview of Canadian labour history, a survey of the social organization of work, and an analysis of the role and function of trade unions.
Note: Students may take either LBST 200 or LBST 202 but not both.
LBST 202
Labour College of Canada: Introduction to Labour Studies
3—Social Science
Delivery Mode: Individualized study or e-Class®.
Prerequisite: None.
This course examines the field of labour studies and the place of working people
and the labour movement in society. It provides an overview of Canadian labour
history, a survey of the social organization of work, and an analysis of the role and function of trade unions.
Registration procedure: Potential students must be members of unions affiliated
to the Canadian Labour Congress. To register, contact the Labour College of
Canada, 2841 Riverside Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K1V 8N4. Phone: 613.733.9967; fax: 613.733.1178; e-mail: labourcollege@clc-ctc.ca
Note: Students may take either LBST 202 or LBST 200 but not both.
LBST 331
Women, Workers, and Farmers: Histories of North American Popular Resistance
3—Social Science
Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: LBST 200 or LBST 202 is recommended but not required.
This course considers the historical relationship between class, gender, and
ideologies of resistance in North America. More specifically, it assesses the
types of ideologies Canadian and American women, farmers, and workers created
and utilized as they built social movements of resistance, opposition, and
critique in the period between 1860 and 1960.
LBST 332
Women and Unions
3—Social Science
Delivery Mode: Individualized study or e-Class®
Prerequisite: LBST 200 or LBST 202 is recommended but not required.
This course is about the relationship, both current and past, between women and
unions in Canada. In the current context the course examines what unions have
and have not bargained for to improve the conditions of women in the labour
force; the place of women inside union structures; the concerns of minority
group women and how the union movement is handling those; and the question of
organizing the majority of non-union women workers.
LBST 411
Special Projects in Labour Studies I
3—Social Science
Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: Permission of the professor.
This course offers an opportunity for advanced students to pursue an extended
research project under the direction of a course professor. The course of study
may involve field, survey, archival, or library research and normally results in
the production of a major paper. Students will be expected to develop
comprehensive background knowledge in the topic of their choice. With the course
professor, students develop a study and/or research proposal indicating the
goals of the study, procedure for evaluation, and the time to completion.
LBST 412
Special Projects in Labour Studies II
3—Social Science
Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: LBST 411 and permission of the professor.
LBST 412 is for students who have already defined a research topic and have
completed the background preparation for a library, survey, archival, or field
project.
As with LBST 411, the specific content, procedures, and evaluation structure of
the course will be negotiated between the student and the professor. With the
professor, students develop a study and/or research proposal indicating the
goals of the study, procedure for evaluation, and the time for completion.
Students undertake an original piece of research and fully document their
conceptual framework, data, and conclusions in the form of a major research
paper.
LBST 413
What Do Unions Do?
Reading—3—Social Science
Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: LBST 200 or LBST 202 is recommended but not required. The course
is designed for students who have already completed some labour studies or
related courses.
This course investigates the theory and practice of trade unions in contemporary
capitalist societies. You will read some theoretical and conceptual material on
trade union behaviour in capitalist societies, two book-length case studies of
unions, and a book-length case study of a strike. The course and its readings
are designed to expand your theoretical understanding of trade unionism and
encourage you to think critically about actual trade union practice.
LEGAL STUDIES (LGST)
LGST 310
The Impact of the Canadian Charter on Labour Relations
3—Applied Studies
Delivery Mode: Individualized study or grouped study.
Prerequisite: None.
This course examines the impact the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms has
had, and will continue to have, on industrial relations. The first two units
establish the context by looking at the historical and constitutional
perspectives of the Charter. The balance of the course examines various relevant
provisions of the Charter that have implications for labour relations. The
course will be of interest to those connected with the labour movement or
involved in industrial relations or management.
LGST 331
Administrative Law
3—Applied Studies
Delivery Mode: Individualized study or grouped study.
Prerequisite: LGST 369 is strongly recommended but not required.
This course will be of particular interest to those in their professional or
private lives who are likely to deal with government at all levels. It discusses
that branch of the law that deals with relationships between the individual
citizen and government, whether at the federal, provincial, or municipal level.
It also deals with other provincially legislated administrative bodies that are
bound, in their deliberations and decisions, by the principles of administrative
law.
LGST 369
Commercial Law
3—Applied Studies
Delivery Mode: Individualized study, grouped study, or e-Class®.
Prerequisite: None.
Commercial Law gives students a practical knowledge of business law that enables
them to participate in the managerial decisions of a business and allows them to
recognize problems and situations that require the help of a lawyer. The basic
content of the course consists of legal concepts, principles, and precedents of
commercial law and their application to business situations especially through
the case study method. The American version of this course is LGST 370.
LGST 430
The Canadian Legal System
3—Applied Studies
Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: Permission of the course professor.
This course begins with some issues relating to historical, jurisprudential and
philosophical legal concepts and principles. It discusses the theories relating
to law as an instrument of social change. It then examines Canadian legal
institutions, procedures, and processes.
LGST 479
Local Government Law in Alberta
3—Applied Studies
Delivery Mode: Individualized study or grouped study.
Prerequisite: Permission of the course professor.
This course provides practical knowledge of legal aspects of local or municipal
governments of Alberta. It examines various aspects of local self-government and
legal implications of local autonomy within statutory and common law boundaries.
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