Course Description:
MGT 2106 will introduce you to the American legal system as it relates to business. The course will cover constitutional law, administrative law, torts, contracts, dispute resolution, property, business formation, employment matters, and ethical issues.
Prerequisite:
There are no prerequisites for this course.
Course Learning Outcomes:
At the end of the course, you should be able to do the following:
- Demonstrate knowledge of legal theories applicable to jurisdiction, alternative dispute resolution, torts, product liability, contracts, agency, employment, and business organizations
- Diagnose legal issues from a set of facts describing a business situation
- Identify and formulate relevant legal theories for legal issues deduced from a set of facts describing a business situation
- Predict likely outcomes/consequences to legal issues in a business situation
- Generate possible solutions and strategies to legal issues
- Explain the risk to a business entity that legal issues present
- Communicate in a professional manner, using logic and reasoning the diagnosis of legal issues, relevant legal theories, and likely consequences
- Demonstrate knowledge of ethical standards and frameworks appropriate for business
- Identify business ethical dilemmas and use ethical frameworks (as well as logic and reasoning) to respond appropriately
Roger LeRoy Miller, Business Law Today: The Essentials, 12th edition (McGraw Hill Irwin).
ISBN-13: 978-0-357-03817-8
All class slides are posted in Canvas.
Evaluation:
Attendance, Class Participation and Assignments 20%
First Exam 20%
Second Exam 20%
Third Exam 20%
Final Exam 20%
Your final grade will be based on a combination of attendance/class participation/assignments and the four exams. Please note how heavily attendance/class participation is weighted in this course.
Grade Scale:
A 90-100
B 80-89
C 70-79
D 60-69
F 59 and below
Required.
Students are expected to maintain the highest standards of academic integrity. All work submitted must be original and properly cited. Plagiarism, cheating, or any form of academic dishonesty will result in immediate consequences as outlined in the university's academic integrity policy.