McMicken College of Arts & Sciences
Center for Organizational Leadership
Graduate Studies
MHR Degree Requirements
To earn the MHR degree, students complete 53 credit hours of coursework, including a final capstone experience, which may be a project, internship, or a research paper. Students have the option to choose between two curriculum tracks: the managerial track for students with relatively little or no experience in HR or labor relations; and the strategic track for those with more experience and a desire to learn more about the issues facing the top echelons of the HR function and the organization more generally. Further, students may be required to complete three pre-requisite courses, Economics 101, HUMR 101, and LER 557, if they did not take a micro-economics or a statistics course in their undergraduate program or have limited HR experience.
The 53 credit hours of coursework and final experience requirements for graduation are listed below. A final GPA of 3.0 is required for graduation.
Prerequisites (top)
The following courses are prerequisites for the MHR program:
- Basic micro-economic theory: Economics 101 (Introduction to Economics) or equivalent;
- A human resource management survey course: LER 557 (Personnel and Employment Relations) or equivalent or generalist professional experience in human resources
- An undergraduate statistics class covering descriptive statistics and basic inferential statistics (e.g., correlation, t-tests, chi-square, etc.) within the past five years
Students must pass these prerequisite classes. In the case of a grade below "C", we will require that the student retake the course, as grades below "C" do not count toward completion of a graduate degree at UC. If the student takes a prerequisite course after being admitted into the program, the grade in that course will not count toward the 53 credit hours required for graduation, but will count towards his/her GPA and will in turn affect his/her ability to graduate.
Students are expected to take the prerequisites as early as possible. Success in the program often depends on the basic knowledge obtained in these prerequisite courses.
Please note that students must take:
- Econ 101 before LER 828-Economics of Human Resources;
- HUMR 101-Introduction to HR Statistics before LER-730;
- LER 730-Statistics for HR before LER 830-Research Methods; and
- LER 557 before any HR course.
Required Courses
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Six Core Courses Required of all Students:
- Economics of Human Resources
- Employment Law I
- Employment Law II
- Individual Behavior in the Workplace
- Research Methods
- Statistics in Human Resources
Cross-Functional Thematic Courses (Select Two):
- Ethical Issues
- Labor Unions in a Global Economy
- Negotiation
- Public Sector Industrial Relations
- The Diverse Workforce
Tracks
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Courses in either the Managerial Track or the Strategic Track (Select Five)
Managerial Track
- Collective Bargaining I
- Collective Bargaining II
- Employee Benefits
- Employee Compensation
- Employee Development and Training
- Employee Relations
- Health and Work
- Human Resource Information Systems
- Labor Relations Process and Law
- Staffing
In addition to the five courses in the Managerial Track, students in the managerial track are required to complete the three-part Professional Development series. The three courses in this series may be taken out of sequence, and students with prior HR experience may seek exemption from this series.
Strategic Track
- HR and Organizational Development and Change
- HR Consulting
- HR Metrics
- Organizational Literacy for HR
- Strategic Human Resource Management
- Strategic Leadership for HR
- International Human Resources
Electives (top)
Courses from any category listed above complete the remaining credit hours. Further, students may petition the Director of the program to take any HR-related course offered by any other department/college to complete the remaining credit hours.
Capstone Course/Final Experience (top)
In the final quarter of classes, students should register for the 2-credit hour LER-900 Capstone course. The final experience requirement is a learning experience that must be completed before graduation. You may work on the experience while continuing to take classes.
There are three options for fulfilling the final experience requirement:
- Internship
- Project at your current work place
- Writing a substantial research Paper
Details (112KB pdf) of the Capstone (final experience) requirement are available to download.
Portfolio (top)
Submit a portfolio, consisting of a reflective paper that documents the extent to which the student has achieved the program goals.
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