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BUS 216
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Title: | Legal Environment of Business |
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Course Description: | Emphasizes public law, regulation of business, ethical considerations, and various relationships existing within society, government, and business. Specific attention is devoted to economic regulation, social regulation, regulation and laws impacting labor-management issues, and environmental concerns. Students develop an understanding of the role of law in social, political, and economic change. |
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Min Credit: | 3 |
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STANDARD COMPETENCIES:
1. Develop an understanding of the legal environment in which businesses operate
2. Awareness of legal problems and ability to communicate using correct legal vocabulary
3. Understand the special areas of contracts, personal property, sales, bailments, and commercial paper related to business problems and procedures
4. Ability to evaluate and think critically about business and legal relationships
5. Understanding how laws are made, enforced, and interpreted
6. Increase student awareness of how the law attempts to increase and protect property rights
7. Ability to locate legal information using the Internet
8. Awareness of ethical dilemmas
TOPICAL OUTLINE:
I. The historical and constitutional foundation
II. Ethics and social responsibility
III. Courts and procedures
IV. Torts and intellectual property
V. Cyberlaw in the legal environment
VI. Contracts: Nature, classification, agreement, and consideration
VII. Contracts: Capacity, legality, assent, and form
VIII. Contracts: Third party rights, discharge, breach and remedies
IX. Sales and leases: formation, title and risk
X Sales and leases: performance and breach
XI. Warranties, product liability, and consumer law
XII. Negotiable instruments
XIII. Secured transactions and bankruptcy
XIV. Agency and employment
XV. Employment discrimination
XVI. Real property and environmental law
XVII. Personal property, bailments, and insurance
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