<p>Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3. Introduction to elements of effective academic writing and opportunity to practice this writing in a collaborative workshop environment. Student confidence is built in their own abilities to communicate academic research and writing to non-academic and activist audiences, and to engage with other students and scholars in labor studies. Students learn the fundamentals of effective academic research and writing, and have the opportunity to use research to engage with a problem or issue in labor and community organizing. Through researching and writing about current issues in labor studies, students develop a deeper understanding of the relationships between their education and society at large and how they, as college graduates, can transform the nature of work. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.</p>

Labor Studies

College of Letters and Science

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LBR STD 96W - Writing and Research for Labor Studies

Writing and Research for Labor Studies

Identify political perspective (left/right) in news and other sources related to work and workers, labor unions

Understand what kinds of research and writing are expected in Labor Studies courses;

Bring social science paradigms and theories and frames to the problem of labor organizing;

Familiarize themselves with library resources that are available for research on labor, work, class, and employment.

Evaluate primary and secondary sources for intersectional content

Be able to conceive, plan, research, and write an academic paper from start to finish;

Understand what a legitimate/interesting questions is in labor studies

Incorporate the elements of effective library research into writing

It encourages student competence in communicating research findings about work and class to academic and nonacademic audiences.

It promotes familiarity and competence with a range of interdisciplinary methodologies and approaches to work and class;

Approach academic research and writing with more confidence

It promotes familiarity with the dynamics of social movements;

Participate in discourse communities about working-class movements

Convey research findings to academic and non-academic audiences;

General Catalog

Writing and Research for Labor Studies

LBR STD 96W

5 units