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