University of Portland Bulletin 2021-2022

CST 533 Critical Perspectives on Work, Labor, and Organizing

This course investigates organizations as sites of power, control, and influence. Major topics for the course include understanding organizations as raced, gendered, abled, classed, heteronormative, and more. An underlying theme of this course is to explore and consider how human communication sustains or transforms organizational power, control, oppression, and influence.