<p>I'm a psych major in A&S hoping to go into Human Resources, so I'm planning to take relevant courses in other colleges over the years. I noticed that both ILR and the Hotel school offer HR and Organizational Behavior classes (although ILR also has more advanced courses)...is the material basically the same, or do they differ in any major way?</p>
<p>ILR’s OB definitely has a human resources theme to it. A lot of the students end up with careers in HR as well so it might be good for networking in addition to the class material. If Jack Goncalo is teaching it, I recommend it. Definitely going to don’t skip out on the reading, though.</p>
<p>Haven’t taken Hotel OB; can’t comment.</p>
<p>Thanks for the input! Are ILR’s OB and HR intro classes so similar that it would be a waste of time to take both in the same semester? Also, do you know if the profs (like Goncalo) are psychologists? I was told that if the courses are taught by psychologists, up to three non-A&S courses can count towards the psych major.</p>
<p>ILR HR and OB are extremely similar, but I can see how taking both would be beneficial to someone hoping to work in HR or Industrial Psychology. I took Intro OB with Jack Goncalo in my freshman fall and HR with John Haggerty in my sophomore spring. I have tremendous respect for both professors - even Prof. Goncalo’s TAs were great - but I know taking them at the same time would have driven me nuts because of all the overlap. However, since you like both subjects, I doubt it would be too much. </p>
<p>As for professor backgrounds, check out the faculty list on ILR’s website. You should be able to look at the CVs of every professor you are considering.</p>
<p>Thanks so much, intl_echo! Really appreciate it!</p>
<p>Your mileage may vary, but OB resulted in significantly less brain death for me than HR. </p>
<p>I didn’t attend one HR lecture the entire semester; that’s how idiotic the material was.</p>
<p>aw, really? hmm. I didn’t expect the material to be all that challenging, but having these classes under my belt will probably help me at least internship-wise. I’m not taking any next semester (working on getting some core requirements done first), but I’m thinking about taking HR 2600 next fall and then using it as a prerequisite for other HR classes (was originally going to take intro to OB at the same time, but don’t really want to now because of the apparent overlap).</p>
<p>This would probably be easier if I had an academic advisor in the psych department…I like my current one, but he’s made it clear that he doesn’t know about anything outside of the English department lol. I made an appointment with Dr. Maas and he was extremely helpful w/ info about majoring in psych and what non-A&S courses I should take, but I don’t want to keep pestering him with questions.</p>
<p>I took OB with rubineau and hr with haggerty last spring. Both were a joke, although HR had a pretty substantial group project that gives me something to talk about in HR interviews when they ask about projects/group work, etc. On his second midterm though, over 25% of the test was made up of questions from guest lectures and I killed my grade in that class because the first test had like 2 or 3 from a guest lecture, and the second had 12 or 13 they were incredibly specific questions. Lets just say that on those guest lecture questions I was good at narrowing it down from 4 choices to two, and then picking the wrong of the 2 almost every time while I did almost flawlessly on the rest of the test. Also, all he talks about is his 20 years at GE and how great GE is (which is probably why he put so many GE guest lecture Q’s on the exam, the TA himself thought it was a bit ridiculous). Was lucky to get out of that class with an A- after that test, probably would have had an A without it (I think the median grade for HR last semester was a B…haggerty was the only one that taught it iirc; the fall semester before it was like an A-). </p>
<p>You should be able to sleepwalk through OB with an A. I did horrible on the tests and still got an A because they count for hardly anything. They exams were multiple choice, but almost every question had 8 choices (A->H)!!</p>