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Course Syllabus

BUS 2050 Business Law

  • Division: Business and Applied Tech
  • Department: Business
  • Credit/Time Requirement: Credit: 3; Lecture: 3; Lab: 0
  • Semesters Offered: TBA
  • Semester Approved: Spring 2025
  • Five-Year Review Semester: Fall 2029
  • End Semester: Fall 2030
  • Optimum Class Size: 24
  • Maximum Class Size: 32

Course Description

This course addresses basic principles of business law, including the legal environment of business, forms of business organization, ethics, torts, contracts, agency, and the purchase and sale of goods under the Uniform Commercial Code. This class will provide a basic framework of business law which will help students who either start their own business, work for someone else, or pursue a legal degree.

Justification

This is a required course for most business degrees nationwide. It is also a requirement for the 4-year music degree.

Student Learning Outcomes

  1. Students will develop an understanding of the legal and business environment.
  2. Students will develop a legal terminology vocabulary.
  3. Students will evaluate and think critically about business and legal relationships.
  4. Students will identify the personal and social implications of knowing about the law.

Course Content

BUS 2050 gives students a broad overview of legal issues in the business environment. Specifically, the course will cover, among other things:
- Constitutional Foundations and Sources of Law
- Litigation Process and Alternatives
- Laws regarding the organization and operation of a business
- Intellectual Property
- Financial Transaction Law
- Contracts
- Sales Transaction Law
- Liability
- Property and Environmental Law