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Looking for an interesting Spring 2026 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.

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Human Resource Management (533)

Check out all of our undergraduate courses offered for Spring 2026 on the Rutgers Schedule of Classes (direct link for 533)

  • 37:533:334  Special Topics in HRM: AI in HRM
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    Taught by Prof. Christopher To – HYBRID CLASS
    Mon. 2:00pm-3:20pm
    This NEW course explores how AI learns, how it speaks, and how it thinks. The course also covers topics around how to use Gen AI in the workplace, including prompt engineering, the design of new AI products, and discussion of regulation of AI products in this ever-changing online environment.
  • 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.
  • 37:533:356  Human Resource Management in the Sports Industry
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    37:533:321  Special Topics in HRM: HRM in Sports
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    Taught by Prof. Ryan Greenbaum
    Wed. 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. 
  • 37:533:357  Human Resource Consulting 
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    37:533:326  Special Topics in HRM: HR Consulting
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    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
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    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.
  • 37:533:332  Special Topics in HRM: Leading Teams
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    Taught by Prof. William Kane
    Thurs. 2:00pm-5:00pm 
    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
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    Taught by Prof. Joseph Blasi
    Wed. 2:00pm-5:00pm
    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
    Hybrid and Asynchronous Online sections 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 Online and 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 Spring 2026 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 been approved for Core requirements in history and writing with revision.
  • 37:575:301  Labor and Democracy
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    Taught by Instr. John Schultz
    Wed. 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?
  • 37:575:357  Social Movements, Social Change, and Work
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    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.  
  • NEW 1-credit asynchronous online course
    37:575:192  Short Topics.  Your Job: All Labor Has Dignity
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    Taught by Instr. John Lavin
    Course meets for last 6 weeks online; you must have a job to take this class.
    Get credit for your job! Discuss your job with others online and explore how it reflects contemporary issues at work ranging from management styles to worker voice. Talk to others at work as well as other student workers about common concerns, what you are learning from working, and why all work – even menial work – has value and dignity.  

Management and Work (624)

Check out all of our undergraduate courses offered for Spring 2026 on the Rutgers Schedule of Classes (direct link for 624) 

  • 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: