B.B.A. in Economics: Labor Relations Concentration

This concentration is available for Economics majors. For this concentration, students must complete the requirements for a major in Economics, with 9 of the 15 additional upper-division hours in Economics coming from the following courses:

ECON 4390 Employee Benefits. Three credits. (Same as FIN 4390.) Prerequisite: Junior standing. Includes descriptive review and taxation, legislative, and administrative dimensions of the major components of employee benefit plans such as retirement systems, deferred compensation plans, health insurance, death benefits, disability benefits, paid and unpaid time off. Technical analysis and problem solving emphasized to develop applied skills. Social insurance and international benefits integrated.

ECON 4420 Labor and Human Resource Economics. Three credits. Prerequisites: ECON 2410 or 2420; junior standing. Current issues and theories, returns to training and education (human capital), earnings differences; union impacts and government regulation of labor relations and labor markets; human resource information system modeling, including applied PC or mainframe data analysis and integration of Internet information sources.

ECON 4490 Industrial Relations Legislation. Three credits. (Same as BLAW 4490 and MGMT 4490.) Prerequisite: Junior standing. Economic background and effects of government regulation of labor relations; emphasis on a detailed examination of the National Labor Relations Act as amended or expanded by the Labor Management Relations Act, the Labor Management Reporting and Disclosures Act, and Title 7 of the Civil Rights Act.

ECON 4510 Unions and Collective Bargaining. Three credits. (Same as MGMT 4510.) Prerequisite: Junior standing. The collective bargaining process: its evolution in the public and private sectors and its contemporary legal environment; compensation, institutional and administrative issues; strikes and impasse resolution procedures.