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
3Social Science
Delivery Mode: Individualized
study.
Prerequisite: None.
Note: Students may take either LBST 200 or LBST 202 but not
both.
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.
LBST
202
Labour College of Canada: Introduction to Labour Studies
3Social Science
Delivery Mode: Individualized
study.
Prerequisite: None.
Note: Students may take either LBST 200 or LBST 202 but
not both.
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
LBST
331
Women, Workers, and Farmers: Histories of North American
Popular Resistance
3Social Science
Delivery Mode: Individualized
study.
Prerequisite: LBST 200 or LBST 202 is recommended but not
required.
Cross-listed: LBST 331 is listed under two different disciplines,
Labour Studies and History. LBST 331 cannot be taken for credit
(towards a credential) if credit has already been obtained for
HIST 331.
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
3Social Science
Delivery Mode: Individualized
study.
Prerequisite: LBST 200 or LBST 202 is recommended but not
required.
Cross-listed: LBST 332 is listed under two different disciplines,
Labour Studies and Sociology. LBST 332 cannot be taken for credit
(towards a credential) if credit has already been obtained for HIST
332.
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
3Social Science
Delivery Mode: Individualized
study.
Prerequisite: Professor approval.
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
3Social Science
Delivery Mode: Individualized
study.
Prerequisite: LBST 411 and professor approval. 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?
3ReadingSocial 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
3Applied Studies
Delivery Mode: Individualized
study. 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
3Applied Studies
Delivery Mode: Individualized
study. 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
3Applied Studies
Delivery Mode: Individualized
study. Grouped study. 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
3Applied Studies
Delivery Mode: Individualized
study.
Prerequisite: Professor approval.
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
3Applied Studies
Delivery Mode: Individualized
study. Grouped study.
Prerequisite: Professor approval.
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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