Learning Outcomes

1. Defend an understanding of labor's role in local and global processes which shape and are shaped by reciprocal relationships of individuals, collectives, and social, cultural, economic, and political institutional structures.
2. Demonstrate a working knowledge of Labor Studies core concepts.
3. Demonstrate an understanding of the social, cultural, economic, and political institutional structures and their interactions as related to labor and its organization.
4. Evaluate the role of major theories that address the experience and meaning of labor in society.
5.  Create strategies to sustain and strengthen the labor movement through a working knowledge of challenges facing workers and organized labor in local and global communities.

The requirements for the Associate of Science degree program with a major in labor studies are as follows:

• Social and behavioral science (9 cr.)
• Arts and humanities (12 cr.)
• Required: ENG W131 (3 cr.)
• One additional writing course (3 cr.)
• Science and mathematics (6 cr.)
• Select One of the following
  • Required: one economics course
  • LSTU L230 Labor and the Economy
• Recommended:
  • one course in computer science, taken through any academic division, including Labor Studies

Total credit hours required in the major areas of learning (27 cr.)

The credit hours required in each area must be distributed over at least two subject fields in each area. A minimum of 27 credit hours from the list of labor studies courses; five must be core courses.

• 100- and 200-level courses are considered "core." LSTU L290, however, is not considered core.  
• Electives in any area including labor studies  (6 cr.)

Other requirements and limitations:

1. A minimum of 12 credit hours of the required 60 credit hours must be taken within the Indiana University system.
2. A minimum of 10 credit hours of course work accepted for the A.S. degree must be taken after the student has been admitted to Indiana University.
3. No more than 15 credit hours can be taken within a single subject other than labor studies.