Human Resource Development ((3 Credits))

Catalog description

Human Resource Development (HRD) is comprised of planned, structured, institutionally sponsored initiatives designed to facilitate individual, group and organizational learning and growth. These initiatives include skills training, career development, leadership development, and organizational development. Students will learn about each one of these aspects of HRD, and they will learn how these aspects interrelate to form an HRD strategy. This course takes both a practical stance, as well as a critical stance. This means that students will come away from the course with the ability to article the meaning, purpose, and activities of HRD. Students learn about the history of the field, key theorists and debates in the field, contemporary issues and and they will be able to identify HRD initiatives within their own professional experiences in order to connect theory with application.