Honours Labour Studies (B.A.)

Admission

Enrolment in this program is limited. Selection is based on academic achievement but requires, as a minimum, completion of any Level I program with a Grade Point Average of at least 5.0 including a grade of at least C in one of LABRST 1A03  or 1C03  (See Note 2 below). For continuation in the program, see Minimum Requirements for Entering and Continuing in a Program Beyond Level I  in the Faculty of Social Sciences Academic Regulations.

Notes

1. See Admission to Level II Programs in Academic Regulations in this section of the Calendar.
2. Students who have who have completed only 3 units of Level I Labour Studies will be required to complete 3 more units of Level I Labour Studies during their Level II year.
3. Students may not transfer to another Labour Studies program except by the normal application process.
4. Students who complete a six unit Research Methods/Statistics course will reduce their elective component by three units.
5. Students who have completed LABR ST 4D03 need not complete LABRST 4C03  or 4E03 .
6. Students are encouraged to consult the Labour Studies web site at: http://www.labourstudies.mcmaster.ca.

Course List 1

• COMMERCE 1BA3 - Organizational Behaviour (or 2BA3)
• COMMERCE 4BC3 - Collective Bargaining
• COMMERCE 4BD3 - Settlement of Industrial Disputes
• LABRST 2H03 - Sports, Work And Labour
• LABRST 2J03 - Work and Racism
• LABRST 3L03 - Labour Policy and Advocacy
• LABRST 2K03 - Will Robots Take All Our Jobs
• LABRST 2M03 - Pop Culture, Media and Work
• LABRST 3A03 - Economics of Labour Market Issues
• LABRST 3B03 - Economics of Trade Unionism and Labour
• LABRST 3C03 - Labour and Employment Law
• LABRST 3D03 - Work: Dangerous to your Health?
• LABRST 3E03 - Gender, Sexuality and Work
• LABRST 3J03 - Independent Study
• LABRST 3K03 - Mobility in the Organization of Work
• LABRST 3T03 - Poverty and Homelessness
• GEOG 4LE3 - Geographies of the North American Political Economy
• SOCWORK 2BB3 - Social Work and Social Welfare: Anti-Oppressive Perspectives

• or

  any 3rd or 4th level Social & Political Context of Social Work courses offered by the School of Social Work. Eligible to count for Level II or above.

• SOCWORK 2CC3 - Introduction to Community Practice
• WOMENST 2A03

Course List 2

• COMMERCE 2BC3 - Human Resource Management and Labour Relations
• ECON 2F03 - The Political Economy of Development
• ECON 2K03 - Economic History of Canada
• ECON 2N03 - Public Policy Toward Business
• HLTH AGE 3J03
• HISTORY 3W03 - Women in Canada and the U.S. to 1920
• HISTORY 3WW3 - Women in Canada and the U.S. from 1920
• POLSCI 3D03
• POLSCI 3E03
• POLSCI 3EE3 - International Relations: North-South
• POLSCI 3F03
• SOCIOL 2E06 A/B
• SOCIOL 2I03 - Sociology of Organizations
• SOCIOL 2Q06 A/B
• SOCIOL 2R03 - Perspectives on Social Inequality
• SOCIOL 2RR3 - Case Studies of Social Inequality
• SOCIOL 2V06 A/B

Social and Political Context of Social Work Course List

• SOCWORK 3B03 - Transnational Lives in a Globalizing World  
• SOCWORK 3C03 - Social Aspects of Health and Illness  
• SOCWORK 3H03 - Justice and Social Welfare  
• SOCWORK 3O03 - Social Work and Sexualities  
• SOCWORK 3Q03 - Indigenizing Social Work Practice Approaches  
• SOCWORK 3S03 - Social Work, Disability and Dis/Ableism  
• SOCWORK 3T03 - Poverty and Homelessness  
• SOCWORK 4B03 - Violence in Intimate Relationships  
• SOCWORK 4C03 - Critical Perspectives on Race, Racialization, Racism and Colonialism in Canadian Society  
• SOCWORK 4G03 - Selected Topics  
• SOCWORK 4I03 - Social Work and Indigenous Peoples  
• SOCWORK 4L03 - Social Work with an Aging Population  
• SOCWORK 4R03 - Feminist Approaches to Social Work and Social Justice  
• SOCWORK 4SA3 - Critical Child Welfare: From Theory to Practice Part I * 
• SOCWORK 4SB3 - Critical Child Welfare: From Theory to Practice Part II * 
• SOCWORK 4U03 - Immigration, Settlement and Social Work  
• SOCWORK 4W03 - Child Welfare  
• SOCWORK 4Y03 - Critical Issues in Mental Health & Addiction: Mad & Critical Disability Studies Perspectives for SW  

*only open to those students in a Social Work program

Requirements

120 units total (Levels I to IV), of which 48 units may be Level I