Graduate Programs: LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS

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Director of the Institute: P. Feuille

Correspondence and Information: Staff Associate, Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 504 East Armory Avenue, Champaign, IL 61820; (217) 333-1480

GRADUATE FACULTY

Professors: F. D. Blau, F. Drasgow, G. Ferris, P. Feuille, M. Finkin, W. Hendricks, C. Hulin, L. Kahn, G. Oldham, R. Peters, S. Rosen, K. Taira, H. Triandis

Associate Professors: P. Carnevale, H. Elkiss, J. Lawler, M. LeRoy, D. Whitford

Assistant Professors: J. Martocchio, E. Perry, D. Schneider

Emeritus Professors: W. Adelman, M. Derber, W. Form, W. Franke, B. Karsh, M. Rothbaum, M. Wagner, E. Wolfe

GRADUATE PROGRAMS

The Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations (ILIR) offers graduate work leading to the master of arts and doctor of philosophy degrees. Students must meet the general admission requirements of the Graduate College, as well as the specific requirements of the institute.

Graduate study at the institute is based on a multidisciplinary approach to industrial relations problems and a flexible curriculum. To achieve this, the institute has joint faculty appointments and course listings with economics, history, psychology, sociology, and business administration; and joint course listings with law, political science, vocational education, and social work.

MASTER OF ARTS

The master's program can lead to a professional, terminal A.M. degree, or it can prepare students to continue their graduate study toward a Ph.D. degree or doctoral degrees in law and other professional areas. The fields of concentration are unions, management, and labor relations policy; human resource management and organizational behavior; and labor markets and employment.

The institute offers a number of program options for the A.M. degree. All options require a minimum of 10 units of work and usually take three semesters to complete. All of the master's degree programs have core requirements in industrial relations systems, quantitative methods, and research methods.

Admission to the master's program is based on an applicant's undergraduate record, letters of reference, Graduate Record Examination scores, and statement of interest and goals. Usually, the minimum requirements for admission are a course in statistics and an average grade of B in the last 60 hours of undergraduate work. A deficiency in statistics may be made up by taking the required course without graduate credit during the first semester of graduate study.

JOINT J.D./A.M.

The joint degree program with the College of Law leads to the J.D. and the A.M. degrees in labor and industrial relations in three-and-one-half years. Students must apply to both the College of Law and the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations and must be accepted by both units.

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

The Ph.D. program in labor and industrial relations is an interdisciplinary research degree. An individual program is built around the student's area of specialization. It includes industrial relations theory, research methodology, and course work both in a major social science discipline and in other professional and disciplinary subjects relevant to the interdisciplinary area of specialization. Examples of areas of specialization include government employer-employee relationships; labor in politics; economic effects of collective bargaining; discrimination in employment; wage policy issues in economic development; motivation, morale, and job satisfaction; international comparative industrial relations systems; behavior in union and management organizations; interorganizational relations; work design; pay systems; cross-cultural issues in industrial relations; and structural and technological determinants of human behavior. The Ph.D. degree requires 24 units of credit beyond the baccalaureate degree, satisfactory completion of qualifying examinations in industrial relations theory and the area of specialization, and a thesis.

A student interested in earning a Ph.D. degree after receiving a master's degree at the institute should indicate this fact on the application for admission. Students with outstanding undergraduate records or with a master's degree from another institution may apply for entrance directly to the doctoral program. The degree should be in labor and industrial relations or an allied field such as business administration, economics, history, sociology, political science, or psychology. The applicant should submit with the application evidence of research competence (master's thesis, term papers, an undergraduate thesis, special reports, or published articles). All papers will be returned.

FINANCIAL AID

The institute offers research assistantships and fellowships to high-ranking graduate students and to new students whose undergraduate records are superior. A research assistant receives a salary plus exemption from tuition and some fees. The Graduate College also awards fellowships that carry stipends plus tuition and service fee waivers. Tuition and service fee waivers may also be granted but do not carry a stipend.

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