Gain the core competencies you need to advance your career.
Stony Brook University's advanced graduate certificate program provides the foundational
knowledge and skills you need to develop successful HR practices that improve your
organization's performance.Designed for professionals who want to learn without interrupting their careers, the
online 15-credit program can be completed in as little as one year.
Our curriculum integrates theory and practice. Students learn actionable HR strategies
and insights using real-world examples and exercises in courses taught by accomplished
practitioners and scholars. If you're currently working in the field, you can start
to implement what you've learned from the very first class.
The certificate courses form the core of our SHRM-aligned master's curriculum. Certificate
credits may be applied to our Master of Science degree (a separate application is
required; speak to an advisor for details).
Our online courses are asynchronous, meaning that the interaction doesn't happen in real time (like in a Zoom meeting).
Instead, you have the flexibility to complete your coursework and participate in class
discussions when it is most convenient for you.
HRM students have indicated it takes about 10 hours per week to complete their coursework (more if it is a dense or unfamiliar topic, less if
it is a topic of which they have prior knowledge).
Short Terms, Multiple Start Dates
We admit students in theFall, Spring and Summer. Each term runs for10 weeks– long enough to cover the topic, short enough to maintain momentum. Required courses are offered every term, as are most electives.
This required course explores the basic elements of personnel administration that
includes an overview of human resource functions; recruitment, selection, staffing,
and placement; job classification and wage and benefit systems; employee supervision,
performance management, workplace health, safety and security, counseling, discipline,
and grievance. The legal framework of human resource administration, workplace diversity,
and approaches specific to union and nonunion environments is also covered.
The focal point of this foundation course is the historical development of labor unions
in the United States, the evolution of the legal framework governing labor relations
today, and the major elements of collective bargaining and dispute resolution techniques
used in the private and public sectors. A discussion of the future of organized labor
concludes the course.
This course is designed to give business and HR professionals insight into and practical
knowledge of the various legal issues that inform today's employer-employee relationships.
Topics will include workplace safety and health, ethics, managing diversity and hiring
practices, formation of the employment contract, laws governing the work relationship,
investigation protocols and risk-reduction techniques, viewed against a backdrop of
emerging employment trends. Prerequisite: HRM 533 Employee Relations and Labor Management.
This course examines contemporary practices and trends in the global marketplace.
Topics include both the similarities and differences among people, organizations,
and management across sectoral and national boundaries that must be a part of the
knowledge base of tomorrow's human resource manager. Human resources from a global
perspective, including issues for expatriates and repatriation, the European Union,
health and safety, business ethics, employee benefits and unions will be covered.
Additional emphasis will be placed on understanding how differences among multi –national
corporations, governmental regulatory agencies, public authorities, strategic alliances,
political and cultural environments impact the management of human resources.
For students working in human resources (HR) management or a related field, this course
will provide an understanding of the importance of learning an organization's operations
and functions as well as its competitive environment/landscape. The course will specifically
review human resources data analytics, a key component to creating the case for human
resources projects and other decisions they may have to make in the course of being
a HR professional. Students will develop a comprehensive human resources business
case.
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