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Advanced Graduate Certificate in Human Resource Management

15 credits | 100% online

Gain the core competencies you need to advance your career.

Stony Brook University's Advanced Graduate Certificate (AGC) 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; please contact an advisor to get the details).

Courses and Scheduling

Our fully remote, asynchronous format allows you to learn at your own pace while continuing to work full-time. The coursework for each class takes approximately five hours per week to complete.

The academic year is split into four terms:

  • Fall, Spring and Summer: 10-week semesters — all AGC courses offered
  • Winter: Bonus three-week term offering select courses

See below for details about each course.

 

Course Requirements

5 COURSES, 15 CREDITS

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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