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Looking for an interesting Fall 2025 course to add to your schedule?

Check out the courses below offered through the School of Management and Labor Relations! Open to all undergraduate students, no prerequisites.

Human Resource Management (533)

Check out all of our undergraduate courses offered for Fall on the Rutgers Schedule of Classes (direct link for 533)

  • 37:533:301  Intro to Human Resource Management
    Online and in-person sections offered
    Human Resources has a hand in every industry and career. This course covers the broad range of topics associated with HR management from the perspective of the HR professional, the manager, and the employee. This class is great for ANY major, but it serves as the base course in the undergrad HRM major and minor. For students who hope to become managers or team leaders during their careers, covers issues such as staffing, motivating, and developing team members.
  • 37:533:317  Career Management
    Online and in-person sections offered 
    Provides an overview of career management topics including understanding self-assessment results, preparing for the job market, understanding the job search process, and maximizing effectiveness in career development. Also covers basic personal career enhancing skills and topics including resume writing, interviewing skills, work-life harmony, and relocation.
  • 37:533:321  Special Topics in HRM: HRM in the Sports Industry
    Taught by Prof. Ryan Greenbaum
    Mon. 10:20am-1:20pm
    Are you a sports fan? Do you wonder why the teams pay some of these athletes the huge salaries they do? Join us as we dig deeper on organizational strategies, compensation, performance evaluations, and more from a sports perspective. This is a fun, discussion-filled class to learn valuable HRM functions that are used in the ever-changing sports world and everyday life. 
  • 37:533:326  Special Topics in HRM: HR Consulting
    Taught by Instr. Suneet Bhatt
    Wed. 2:00pm-5:00 pm
    Are you looking for a class that may land you a career? In this course, students work in small teams to provide real-life consulting services to a local organization. These consulting services may include marketing, program evaluation, strategic planning, or other types of analysis that the organization may need. This is designed to specifically analyze these problems and formulate innovative solutions, and effectively communicate recommendations. Through this process, students learn about the real-world challenges faced by community organizations and gain practical experience in applying their academic knowledge to solve these challenges. 
  • 37:533:327  Special Topics in HRM: Finding & Evolving Your Purpose-Driven Career
    Taught by Instr. Suneet Bhatt
    Wed. 10:20am -1:20pm
    Students have called this “the most impactful class you will take.” Imagine a class fully dedicated to helping you understand your unique strengths and point-of-view, and then giving you a forum to practice how you articulate your story in an authentic way – in a job interview, in a grad school application, in a deep conversation with friends and family. Every session will be built around helping you understand and articulate your purpose, using a mix of reading materials, tools, frameworks, assessments, powerful guest speakers – and always, great conversations.
  • 37:533:331  Data Visualization & Storytelling
    Taught by Prof. Christopher To – HYBRID CLASS
    Mon. 2:00pm-3:20pm
    This course provides students with knowledge on visualizing and communicating insights from data. We practice the “hard skills” of cleaning data, generating visualizations, designing interactive dashboards, and creating data stories. We also develop the “soft skills” of stakeholder management, problem scoping, deriving actionable insights, and communicating insights to empower decision-makers. Learn to take the data that is out there and tell your story!
  • 37:533:332  Leading Teams
    Taught by Prof. William Kane
    Mon. 10:20am-1:20pm 
    Based upon the coaching fundamentals of UCLA’s legendary John Wooden (ESPN’s “Coach of the Century”), this course offers a unique, time-tested, evidence-based roadmap toward achieving optimal organizational performance through enhanced team building and leadership skills.
  • 37:533:353  Equity Compensation & Employee Ownership
    Taught by Prof. Adria Scharf
    Tues. 2:00pm-5:00pm – VIRTUAL CLASS
    Learn first-hand from guest speakers how companies give their employees not only a sense of ownership in their work, but also why it is important to make them actual owners in their organizations. This is a survey course that allows students to network with executives while exploring the variety of ways that businesses can compensate employees with shares of equity, profits, or gains, and the human resource management, employment relations, organizational and individual motivational issues that such practices raise. 
  • 37:533:354  People Analytics
    Taught Asynchronous Online by Prof. Rania Elanwer
    People analytics is a data-driven approach aimed at enhancing people-related decisions to promote both individual and organizational success. While the critical role of people in organizational success has always been acknowledged, many business leaders continue to make key workforce decisions based on intuition or past experience. However, today's leaders can significantly improve their decision-making processes by leveraging the unique opportunities that data analytics offers. Throughout the course, students will be trained to apply analytics to solve HR problems using data-driven methods. 
  • 37:533:355  HRM & Social Media
    Taught Asynchronous Online by Instrs. Marshall Sponder & Tatiana Rodriguez
    NEW CLASS! Offered in collaboration with Rutgers Business School and Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations, this 3-credit asynchronous course explores how social media shapes professional identity, networking, and digital visibility. Using tools such as Canva, ChatGPT and Notion, students will learn to create a strategic online presence across platforms like LinkedIn and Instagram by developing content, auditing their digital footprints, and curating material to enhance employability.

Labor Studies and Employment Relations (575)

Check out all of our undergraduate courses offered for Fall on the Rutgers Schedule of Classes (direct link for 575)​

  • 37:575:203  Work/Labor History 1940-Present
    Various in-person sections offered
    Gain a deeper understanding of the history that matters a lot for today’s American workers, organizations, and human resource policies. This course has just been approved for Core requirements in history and writing with revision.
  • 37:575:316  Privacy and Equality at Work 
    Tues. 2:00pm-5:00pm
    Whether it is drug testing, computer monitoring, or remote sensing, privacy issues are pervasive in workplaces, as are questions of how to promote equal opportunity for all types of employees. This law-focused course will provide an opportunity to learn more about these key labor/HR matters.
  • 37:575:357  Social Movements, Social Change, and Work
    Taught by Prof. Eric Blanc
    Wed. 5:40pm-8:40pm – VIRTUAL CLASS
    You know that the Civil Rights Movement changed the face of work; in this synchronous online course evaluates the strategies of  that and other social movements that have reshaped economic opportunity.  
  • 37:575:480  Topics: Trump, DEI & the Media
    Taught by Instr. Andrew Kennis
    Tues. 2:00pm-5:00pm – VIRTUAL CLASS
    The President and Elon Musk have joined together to eliminate Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives in government, universities, and corporations.  Consider the ongoing battle over whether DEI initiatives are discriminatory themselves or right older wrongs, and the role the media is playing in this contemporary battle.

Management and Work (624)

Check out all of our undergraduate courses offered for Fall on the Rutgers Schedule of Classes (direct link for 624) 

  • 37:624:308  Teams and Employee Dynamics
    Taught by Prof. William Dwyer
    Mon. 3:50pm-6:50pm
  • 37:624:345  Organizational Behavior and Work
    Various in-person and asynchronous online sections offered
    This course explores behavior by individuals and groups in the workplace; group and intergroup dynamics; organizational culture, structure, and change; leadership, employee motivation, job performance, and feedback. 
  • 37:624:348  Leadership in the Workplace 
    Various in-person and asynchronous online sections offered
    This course is designed to provide managers with the tools necessary to effectively lead individuals and teams in today’s complex organizational climate. Through simulations, group exercises, discussion, case studies and reading; students will develop their leadership style and capability to supervise, motivate, build teams, manage group dynamics, communicate effectively, and deal with conflict. 
  • 37:624:350  Excel for Management and Work
    Various in-person sections offered
  • 37:624:364  Diversity and Inclusion
    Various in-person and asynchronous online sections offered
    This course focuses on how the increasing demographic diversity of American workplaces affects social relations, cultural dynamics, and organizational effectiveness.

 

SMLR Graduate Courses

Are you a SMLR graduate student looking to complete your schedule? Click the links below to view the latest online schedule of classes for the Master of Human Resource Management, Master of Labor and Employment Relations, and graduate certificate programs: