HDEV 441 - Human Development and Work

Units: 4
Explores relationships between work, workplace and human development, focusing on how economic, political and technological forces have transformed impact of work for both men and women.

Prerequisites: Junior, senior or post-baccalaureate standing.
Possible Instructional Methods: Entirely On-ground, or Entirely Online, or Hybrid.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Course Typically Offered: Variable Intermittently

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

demonstrate basic knowledge of both how the contemporary workplace is changing, and the human impact of these changes .
understand how gender, culture, ethnicity and social class both condition and provide a context for the differing responses of individuals and groups to workplace dislocation, including forced reliance on part-time work, short and long term unemployment, etc.
analyze with clarity the relationship between changes in the workplace and major macro-historical trends (such as the transnationalization of global capitalism).