LBR STD 137Labor and Public Higher Education: Campus Workers, Working Students, and the Public Good
Labor Studies · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Introduction to critical scholarship on the relationship between capitalism and higher education in the U.S., and to campus workers and their attempts to use collective action to change higher education. Survey of critical university studies scholarship on how and why the U.S. higher education system may reproduce more than ameliorate social inequality. Introduction to staff and academic worker unions at the University of California, and their visions for public higher education. Students research the current use of artificial intelligence in higher education, and develop ideas for organizing college students and/or workers to determine how artificial intelligence is used.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
- Winter 2027
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
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Requires
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Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
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