Human Relations (H R)

Prerequisites: 3013 or junior standing, or permission of instructor. May be repeated with change of content; maximum credit nine hours. The course is designed to permit the study of topical human relations issues. 1 to 3 credit hours

Prerequisites: Senior standing or permission of instructor. 1 to 3 credit hours. May be repeated: maximum credit nine hours. Special topics or seminar course for content not currently offered in regularly scheduled courses. May include library and/or laboratory research and field projects.

Prerequisites: graduate standing or permission of instructor. Focuses on concepts of justice in organizations, and the changing demographics of our society, especially related to race and culture, gender, age disability, and socio-economic status. The course emphasizes the implications of these factors for effective organizational management.

Prerequisites: Graduate standing or permission of instructor. This course examines ways to enhance creativity and the creative problem solving process within the context of a rapidly changing workplace. The major changes occurring in today's workplace and the management of change at both the personal and organizational level will also be considered. Particular emphasis will also be placed on examining the creative process, common barriers to creativity, and a variety of individual and group techniques that foster or facilitate the creative process.

Prerequisites: graduate standing or permission of instructor. This course provides an introduction to and an overview of the human relations approach to human resource management. Issues are considered from a variety of perspectives, including that of the employee, the manager or supervisor, and the beginning human resource specialist. This course does not cover the financial, legal, and technical aspect of the field, emphasizing the analysis of interpersonal relationships in the workplace.

Prerequisite: Graduate standing or permission of instructor. This course will explore the nature and origins of human conflict in modern life. It will emphasize an understanding of conflict and resolution methods useful in professional counseling and other HR settings such as organizational development and interpersonal facilitation.

Prerequisites: graduate standing or permission of instructor. This course will explore organizational communication concepts, theories, research, and practical applications for human relations professionals.

Prerequisites: Graduate standing or permission of instructor. This course will explore fundraising as a dynamic process through which an organization or an individual becomes financially able to accomplish a specific goal by using writing skills, management skills, and solicitation. Students will acquire the skills needed to prepare grant proposals. (irreg.)

Prerequisite: Graduate standing or permission of instructor. This course examines how public policy is made at various levels of government and how these policies affect society.Particular emphasis will be given to public policy issues that affect human relations professionals, their clients, and the public and private agencies in which they work. (Irreg.)

Prerequisites: graduate standing or permission of instructor. This course will examine ways to understand people of different cultures. It uses a multidisciplinary approach to look at the roots and explanations of difference between cultures and what these differences mean for working with people of different backgrounds. The course utilizes the tools of history, geography, economics, sociology, and other social and physical sciences to understand why people are different in order to identify strategies for building effective human relations.

Prerequisite: Graduate standing or permission of instructor. A creative exploration of the dynamics of women's issues in both the family and in the workplace. It examines the societal conditioning creating the "Superwoman," mother-blaming, balancing roles, the time bind of home and work discrimination in the workplace, relational practice at work, and companies that care for and about women and families. Exploration will include strategies for innovative planned change

1 to 3 hours Prerequisites: Graduate standing or permission of instructor. May be repeated; maximum credit six hours. Special topics or seminar course for content not currently offered in regularly scheduled courses. May include library and/or laboratory research and field projects.