Examines policies and practices that contribute to workplace discrimination and those designed to eliminate discrimination. Explores effects of job discrimination and occupational segregation. Analyzes Title VII, ADA, and related topics in relation to broader strategies for addressing discrimination. L290 Topics in Labor Studies 1-3 cr. This is a number under which a variety of topics can be addressed in classroom-based programs on the campuses.
Some courses focus on contemporary or special areas of labor studies.
Other are directed towards specific categories of employees and labor organizations. A Psychological Perspective 3 cr. Basic data and theories about the development and maintenance of sex differences in behavior and personality. A brief survey of the history of women s changing role in America with particular emphasis on women s legal status in this century, persistence of occupational segregation, the organization and growth of the women s movement since 1960, the impact of those changes on the nuclear family, and the female self-image. S337 Women and Crime 3 cr.