Undergraduate Programs
BA Labour Studies Concentration
     
Regulations effective September 1, 2004

Athabasca University has developed program learning outcomes that describe the career options that may be available to you upon graduating. Students complete the program regulations in effect at the time of their enrolment.
      Bachelor of Arts (3-year) General regulations.
     

Requirements in addition to the general program requirements for the 3-year BA with Concentration.

Note: The maximum Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition credits for the Labour Studies concentration is 30.

     
     
1.  
A minimum of 33 credits in concentration courses including a minimum of 24 senior (300 or 400) level credits.
     
2.  
12 credits in the following designated Labour Studies concentration core courses:

and

     
HIST 336 History of Canadian Labour (6)
LBST 200 Introduction to Labour Studies
or
 
LBST 202 Labour College of Canada: Introduction to Labour Studies (3)
SOCI 321 The Sociology of Work and Industry (3)

 

   
3.  

A minimum of 21 credits in the following designated Labour Studies concentration elective courses:

All courses labelled LBST and IDRL*

     
EDUC 310 The Canada Training System (3)
ENGL 306 The Literature of Work (3)
HIST 329 The Social History of Canada (6)
HIST 470 Pre-Industrial Origins of Labour and Socialist Thought (3)
HIST 471 Labour and Socialist Thought in the Early Industrial Revolution, 1800-1850 (3)
HIST 472 Labour and Socialist Thought in the Later Industrial Revolution, 1850-1917 (3)
HIST 486 The Industrial Revolution (3)
LGST 310 The Impact of the Canadian Charter on Labour Relations (3)
POEC 393 Canada and the Global Political Economy (3)
POEC/GLST 483 International Political Economy: Power, Production, and Global Order (3)
POLI 383 Introduction to Canadian Political Economy (3)
PSYC 205 Prior Learning Assessment and Portfolio Development (3)
SOCI 345 Women and Work in Canada (3)
SOCI 381 The Sociology of Power and Inequality (3)
     
*  
All courses labelled IDRL can be taken as either Applied Studies or Social Science courses, but not both. To use these courses to satisfy the Social Science area of study requirement, students must contact Admissions and Evaluations Services and request the change upon completion of the course.
     
     
  Union Education Transfer Credit and Prior Learning
     
 

Athabasca University grants advanced credit in the Labour Studies program for some union education programs. A student with a Labour College of Canada certificate, for example, may be eligible to receive nine credits. Students who have completed the Canadian Auto Workers Paid Educational Leave course may be eligible to receive three credits. And students who have completed the Canadian Union of Postal Workers' Union Education Program may be eligible to receive six credits. Credit is also granted for other union education programs and for other forms of prior learning.

Contact Athabasca University for details. Many unions, and some employers, will reimburse you for the cost of university tuition fees. Discuss this with your union representative or employer.


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