Course Description (BLAW 2200):

This course is an introduction to the relationship between law and the business environment. The material includes an overview of the areas of law that are relevant to business, including torts, crimes, contracts, the Constitution, antitrust, real estate, court procedure, government regulation, intellectual property, and remedies. The class also addresses ethical issues that may arise in a business’s internal and external activities. Many of these topics will overlap such as computer crime legislation, liability for errors in data or programming for an IT system, or the ethics of revealing information to gain an advantage in business. 

Prerequisite: ENGL 1101.

Course Objectives (BLAW 2200):

1.)  Students will learn to become independent critical thinkers by identifying legal issues, researching the law, and analyzing the total circumstances without coming to an emotional conclusion. Challenging legal problems and various hypotheticals will help students to develop this skill.

2.)  Students will learn the high value of an ethical lifestyle of business. They will be presented with various ethical dilemmas and hypotheticals designed to help them grow in this area. Students will recognize, analyze, and choose resolutions to ethical problems in decision-making attitude, knowledge, and skills. Class discussions will focus on the ethical and legal decisions that every business person encounters in the course of operating a business.

3.)  Students will identify, interpret, and analyze the impact that legal, global, industry and customer environments have on business decisions. Students will identify general legal principles that affect business situations around the globe.