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Undergraduate Calendar 2010|11

Human Resources and Labour Relations

University Certificate in Human Resources and Labour Relations

Regulations effective September 1, 2010.

The University Certificate in Human Resources and Labour Relations is offered by the Centre for Work and Community Studies. This is an integrated, multidisciplinary program of courses that examines employment relations within their social, legal, political, and economic contexts. This certificate will be of interest to trade unionists, managers, human resource specialists and individuals interested in better employment opportunities. Students complete the program regulations in effect at the time of their enrolment.

Students may obtain either the University Certificate Human Resources and Labour Relations or the University Certificate in Labour Studies (following), but not both. Students who have completed the former University Certificate in Labour Relations may not enrol in this program.

Students are recommended to take ENGL 255 or ADMN 233 early in their program.

 

Program Plans

Our online program plans can assist you in selecting the courses needed to fulfill your program requirements.

Counselling Services offers an assessment website, "Mapping Your Future: Your Career and Athabasca University." Athabasca University has also developed program learning outcomes that describe the career options that may be available to you upon graduating.

Program Structure
Total credits in the program 30
Required credits 9
Elective credits 21
Residency requirement. A minimum of 15 credits must be obtained through Athabasca University. 15
Maximum Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition (PLAR) credits 15

General certificate regulations

Required Courses (9 credits)
IDRL 312 Conflict and Accommodation* (3)
IDRL 320 Labour Relations and the Law

or		 (3)
HRMT 322 Employment Law
HRMT/ORGB 386 Introduction to Human Resource Management (3)

* IDRL 312 replaces IDRL 311, a 6-credit course. Accommodation will be made for those students who have successfully completed IDRL 311.

 

Electives

(Select 21 credits from the following)

ADMN 233 Writing in Organizations

or		 (3)
ENGL 255 Introductory Composition  
ANTH 275 Faces of Culture: An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (3)
COMM 243 Interpersonal Communications in Management (3)
COMM 277 Group Communication (3)
ECON 247 Microeconomics (3)
ECON 248 Macroeconomics (3)
ECON 401 The Changing Global Economy
(Students who have obtained credit for ECON 301 may not take ECON 401.)		 (3)
EDUC 301 Educational Issues and Social Change I: Historical Social Perspectives (3)
EDUC 302 Educational Issues and Social Change II: Current Debates (3)
EDUC 309 The Purposes of Adult Education (3)
EDUC 310 The Canadian Training System (3)
HIST 336 History of Canadian Labour (6)
HRMT All HRMT courses  
IDRL All IDRL courses  
LBST All LBST courses  
LGST All LGST courses  
ORGB All ORGB courses  
PHIL 252 Critical Thinking (3)
POEC 393 Canada and the Global Political Economy (3)
POEC/GLST 483 International Political Economy: The Politics of Globalization (3)
PSYC All PSYC courses  
SOCI 321 Sociology of Work and Industry (3)
SOCI/WGST 345 Women and Work in Canada (3)
SOCI 381 The Sociology of Power and Inequality (3)

 

Information effective Sept. 1, 2010 to Aug. 31, 2011.

Updated December 09, 2011