ILRLR 6080

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  • Schedule of Classes - June 15, 2016 6:14PM EDT
  • Course Catalog - June 9, 2016 6:15PM EDT

ILRLR 6080
Special Topics in Labor Relations

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2015-2016.

Topics change depending on semester and instructor.

When Offered Fall or spring.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Seven Week - First.  Combined with: ILRLR 3045

  • 2 Credits GradeNoAud

  • Topic: US Courts' Role in Undermining Brown v. Bd. of Ed

  • 14719 ILRLR 6080   LEC 002

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    • TR Ives Hall 112
    • Jan 27 - Mar 18, 2016

    • Adler, L

  • While the Brown decision seemed to end de jure segregation in America, a series of court cases and continuing housing, lending and other nationwide policies interfered with our Nation’s ability to end de facto segregation. This course will critically examine US and state Supreme Court decisions and civil rights commentary to try and understand what happened after the historic 1954 Brown decision in order to understand why many observers believe we are still more than less a segregated society.

Syllabi: none

  •   Seven Week - Second. 

  • 1 Credit GradeNoAud

  • Topic: Collaborative Decision Making and Public Policy

  • 14701 ILRLR 6080   LEC 001

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    • MTWR Ives Hall 111
    • Apr 4 - Apr 7, 2016

    • Lipsky, D

  • Pre-requisites: The course will be offered over four consecutive evenings. It will be open to both ILR and non-ILR students at the upper division and graduate level who have a sufficient background in the social sciences. Enrollment open to ILR and non-ILR juniors, seniors, and graduate students. Limited to 30 students. The proposed course will introduce students to the theory of collaborative or interest-based conflict resolution and will describe recent efforts to use these techniques to resolve important public policy issues. The course will be based substantially, but not exclusively, on the work of the Convergence Center for Policy Resolution, a national non-profit organization based in Washington, DC, which has been applying collaborative problem solving to issues of importance at the national policy level for several years. Three cases of collaborative decision making will be examined in detail: health care coverage and the Affordable Care Act; nutrition and wellness; and education reform. Robert Fersh, ILR B.S. ¿72, J.D. Boston University ¿75, the president of Convergence, and Richard Korn, ILR B.S. ¿71 and Ph.D. ¿79, the chairman of the board of trustees of Convergence, will serve as co-instructors in the course.