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Undergraduate Calendar 2014|15

Human Resources and Labour Relations

University Certificate in Human Resources and Labour Relations

Regulations effective September 1, 2014.

The University Certificate in Human Resources and Labour Relations is offered by the Centre for Social Sciences. 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 courses 9
Electives 15
Options 6
Residency requirement. A minimum of 15 credits must be obtained through Athabasca University. 15
Maximum Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition (PLAR) credits 15
No preparatory (100-level) courses will count towards this program  

General certificate regulations

Required Courses (9 credits)

IDRL 312

 

IDRL 215

Conflict and Accommodation*

or

Introduction to Labour Relations

 (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 (15 credits)
Note: A minimum of 6 credits must be selected from the courses in HRMT and/or IDRL.
ACCT 253 Introductory Financial Accounting (3)
ACCT 355 Cost Analysis (3)
ADMN All courses  
ANTH 275 Faces of Culture: An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (3)
CMIS 245 Microcomputer Applications in Business (Windows) (3)
CMIS 351 Management Information Systems (3)
COMM 243 Interpersonal Communication (3)
COMM 277 Group Communication (3)
COMP 361 Systems Analysis and Design (3)
ECON All courses  
EDUC All courses  
ENGL 255 Introductory Composition (3)
GOVN All courses  
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)
PHIL 333 Professional Ethics (3)
POEC All courses  
PSYC 200 Introduction to Career Development (3)
PSYC 300 Theories of Career Development (3)
PSYC 305 The Career Development Portfolio (3)
PSYC 310 Learning and Instruction (3)
PSYC 387 Learning (3)
PSYC 401 Learning Through Life (3)
PSYC 405 Creating a Working Alliance (3)
SOCI 300 Organizations and Society: How to Make Sense of Modern Organizational Life (3)
SOCI 301 Social Statistics (3)
SOCI 332 Women and Unions (3)
SOCI 345 Women and Work in Canada (3)
SOCI 381 The Sociology of Power and Inequality (3)

 

Information effective Sept. 1, 2014 to Aug. 31, 2015.

Updated July 15, 2016