Opportunities

Opportunities Outside the College

School of Social Work

For further information, call the School of Social Work Bloomington office, 1127 E. Atwater Avenue, (812) 855-4427, or visit the website (bloomington.socialwork.iu.edu/).

Note: The following requirements apply to minors transcripted by the College:

  1. Any course in which the student receives a grade below C– cannot be used to fulfill a minor requirement;
  2. The grade point average of all courses taken in fulfillment of minor requirements must be at least 2.000;
  3. Students must complete at least 9 credit hours in the minor on the Bloomington campus; and
  4. Students must complete at least 9 credit hours at the 300–400 level.
Minor in Social Welfare Advocacy
Requirements
  1. SWK-S 100 Understanding Diversity in a Pluralistic Society
  2. SWK-S 141 Introduction to Social Work
  3. SWK-S 251 History and Analysis of Social Welfare Policy (P: SWK-S 141)
  4. SWK-S 352 Social Welfare Policy and Practice  (P: SWK-S 251)
  5. Any SWK-S 300 non-major social work class
  6. An additional SWK-S 300 non-major social work class (topic must be different from item 5)
Minor in Labor Studies (Department of Labor Studies)
Requirements
  1. 6 credit hours must be selected from the following lower division courses:
    • LSTU-L 100 Unions and Collective Bargaining (3 cr.)
    • LSTU-L 101 American Labor History (3 cr.)
    • LSTU-L 105 Contemporary Labor Problems (3 cr.)
    • LSTU-L 110 Labor and Society (3 cr.)
    • LSTU-L 200 Employment Law (3 cr.)
    • LSTU-L 201 Labor Law (3 cr.)
    • LSTU-L 203 Labor and the Political System (3 cr.)
    • LSTU-L 230 Labor and the Economy (3 cr.)
  2. In addition, 9 credit hours are required from the following:
    • LSTU-L 315 The Organization of Work (3 cr.) or SOC-S 315 Work and Occupations (3 cr.)
    • LSTU-L 375 Comparative Labor Movements (3 cr.)
    • LSTU-L 380 Theories of the Labor Movement (3 cr.)
    • LSTU-L 385 Class, Race, Gender, and Work (3 cr.)
    • LSTU-L 390 Topics in Labor Studies (3 cr.) (depending on the topic, and after consultation with faculty advisor within the College of Arts and Sciences)
    • LSTU-L 480 Senior Seminar or Readings (3 cr.) (Topics vary based on the student's area of interest in Labor Studies.)