To earn the minor, students must complete the courses outlined in the degree table below.
If you have questions, please contact Martin Orr at morr@boisestate.edu.
Labor Studies Minor Requirements
Required Courses
- SOC 101 Introduction to Sociology, 3 credits
- SOC 361 Sociology of Work, 3 credits
- SOC 421 Social Inequality, 3 credits
Choose 15 credits from the following
- COMM 361 Organizational Communication
- COMM 435 Collaboration and Facilitation
- DISPUT/COMM/SOC 390 Conflict Management
- ECON 315 (GLOBAL 303) Global Economic Development
- ECON 325 Heterodox Political Economy
- ECON 327 Labor Economics
- GENDER 200 Introduction to Gender Studies
- GLOBAL 301 History of Globalization
- HIST 325 History of Socialism
- HIST 349 History of Multicultural America
- HIST 387 History of the Police in Europe and America
- HRM 330 Human Resource Law
- HRM 340 Employee and Labor Relations
- MEDIA 201 Introduction to Media
- NONPROF 340 Volunteer Management and the Nonprofit
- NONPROF 440 Funding for Nonprofits
- POLS 401 Political Parties and Interest Groups
- PR 201 Intro to Public Relations
- SOC 305 Racial and Cultural Minorities
- SOC 320 Radical Sociology
- SOC 380 Political Sociology
- SOC 403 Social Change
- SOC 425 Urban Sociology
- SOC 426 Rural Sociology
- URBAN 390 Urban Inequality
- 493 Internship
NOTE: *No more than six elective credits of SOC may be applied toward the minor.