Business Law (BL)

BL-200   The Law and Your LifeCredits: 3   

Prerequisite: BM-200.

Term Offered: All Terms

Course Type(s): None

Introduces students to the fundamental laws relating to the expected major events in their personal lives from graduation until death including constitutional rights, contracts, crimes, torts, buying a home, marital rights and obligations, borrowing and investing, taxes, employment, insurance, consumer rights and estate administration. Not open to Business majors.

BL-201   Legal Environment of Business ICredits: 3   

Term Offered: All Terms

Course Type(s): None

Fundamentals of contracts, constitutional, criminal, torts, business organization, agency, employment, anti-trust, property, and international law.

BL-202   Legal Environment of Business IICredits: 3   

Prerequisite: BL-201.

Term Offered: All Terms

Course Type(s): None

Sales contracts, advanced topics in business organizations, bankruptcy, commercial paper, leases, estates and trusts, and miscellaneous.

BL-480   Business Research: Business LawCredits: 3   

Prerequisites: Junior standing, approval of the instructor, department chair, and the Associate Dean or the Dean.

Term Offered: All Terms

Course Type(s): None

Active participation in a research project chosen by and currently being pursued by the faculty sponsor. Student activities may include but are not limited to: literature search, data collection, data analysis, preparation of a manuscript, and delivery of a manuscript. May be used as an elective course in the Accounting concentration.

BL-488   Cooperative Education: Business Law ConcentrationCredits: 3   

Term Offered: Fall Term

Course Type(s): EX2

An opportunity to apply classroom theory in practice through actual work experience; includes both academic and experiential education. Experiential education involves fifteen to twenty hours of work per week for three credit hours.

BL-498   Special Topics in Business Law (400 Level)Credits: 1-3   

Prerequisite: As announced in the course schedule.

Term Offered: All Terms

Course Type(s): None

An intensive study of a particular subject or problem in business law to be announced prior to registration. May be conducted on either a lecture-discussion or a seminar basis.