Rutgers SMLR Spring 2027 Courses

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.

Taught by Prof. Ryan Greenbaum
Tues. 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. ​

Taught Online by Prof. Youjeong Song

Explores the importance of international business management in the context of international human resource management, including topics on culture, compensation and benefits, international organizations and their structures, international assignment management, and the legal and regulatory considerations that global organizations face.

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. Prerequisite: 37:533:301 Intro to Human Resource Management

Taught by Prof. William Kane
Wed. 12:10pm-3:10pm

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. Prerequisite: 37:533:301 Intro to Human Resource Management

Taught Hybrid and Online by Prof. Rania Elwaner

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. ​

Taught Online and Asynchronous Online by Instrs. Marshall Sponder & Tatiana Rodriguez

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.

Taught by Prof. Molly Ragan
Tues. 10:20-1:20pm; see also online-A sections

Work in organizations, large and small, is in your future (and perhaps your present). This class considers issues like how is work changing today. How can organizations create job structures that sustain both the employer and the people who work for it?  

Taught by Prof. Chris Hayes
Hybrid Tues. 3:50pm-5:10pm

AI is changing many things at once.  Explore its likely impact on jobs, the environment, inequality, and various aspects of our human well-being.  Bring and open mind to explore the human impact of this emerging technology and how its path might be altered by concerted political/social movements.

Taught by Prof. Luis Mendoza
Friday 12:10-5:10   VIRTUAL CLASS

Multi-nationals have supply chains that span the globe, affecting workers and their living/working standards in complex ways.  Consider the impact workers in the Global South when multi-nationals employ them, along with recent changes stemming from increased use of AI, changing transportation costs etc.  Corporate social responsibility (CSR), independent-monitoring of labor standards, and unions acting across borders will also be topics of this class.

Taught by Prof. Danelle Phillips-Cunningham
Wed 5:40-8:40pm  VIRTUAL CLASS

Contemporary organizing in the American South draws on long traditions of fighting for equality by Black women and others.  Explore what is happening today in light of this rich history along with students from the Spelman College and a group of active union organizers.  There will be a few graduate students in this class but it is primarily an undergraduate course.

Taught by Prof. Heather Beson
Wed. 12:10-1:30pm   VIRTUAL CLASS

Broadway and Hollywood both are sites of extensive union organization, much of it of a nature that is suited to an industry that relies on talent that shifts between projects, rather than remaining with one employer.   And labor in all the creative industries, including music and the visual arts, are currently being transformed by AI.   Explore the resulting multitude of issues for workers and their organizations.

Taught by Prof. Chris Hayes
Two in-person sections offered
Wed. 10:20am-1:20pm
Wed. 2pm-5pm

Gain a deeper understanding of the history that matters a lot for today’s American workers, organizations, and human resource policies. This course has been approved for Core requirements in history and writing with revision.

Taught by Dr. John Schultz
Mon. 10:20am-1:20pm

Democracy is in crisis in many nations and increasingly problematic in the U.S.  What can labor organizations and other progressive social movements do to defend democracy? What is meant by democracy anyway in politics or in the wider society?

Taught by Dr. Laura Beltran Figueroa
ONLINE ASYNCHRONOUS

From affordability to rising income inequality, nothing is more central to employment outcomes than economics.  This class takes a very broad, sociological as well as economic approach to the key financial issues today between employers and working families.

Taught by Prof. Eric Blanc
Tues. 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.  

Multiple sections in person and ONLINE ASYNCHRONOUS

Learn about the need, and the potential for, making work safer for everyone.  This course focuses on the United States but obviously this is a global issue and international students can learn from the successes and failures of current U.S. efforts.

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. ​

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. ​

Various in-person sections offered

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.

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.