BUSINESS LAW (BA 230-001)

124 Gilbert Hall

T & Th. 10 - 12

Instructor: Daniel l. Lykins

224A Bexell Hall - 737-4138

Email: lykinsd@onid.orst.edu

Office Hours: M & W 2-3:30, T & Th. 8:45- 9:45

and by appointment

REQUIRED MATERIALS:

Text: Miller, Cross & Jentz, ESSENTIALS OF THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT (2005) with the accompanying Online Research Guide. Any additional materials will be provided in class or on the Blackboard web site for the course. The publisher offers a text website for the text book at http://www.swlearning.com/blaw/ele/le1e.html. This website offers practice quizzes for each chapter. To access click on the “interactive study center” and then the chapter you want from the drop down menu and then click on “interactive quiz.”

COURSE GOALS:

Students are expected to: 1) acquire an understanding of the legal environment of business including the structure and functioning of the judicial, legislative and administrative systems; 2) develop an ability to apply business law concepts to business problems including contract, torts and criminal law issues; 3) develop and ability to critically analyze current legal proceedings and issues and relate them to the material covered in the course; 4) develop and ability to analyze selected current cases and relate the rules of those cases to the management of modern business enterprises; 5) acquire and understanding of sustainability and sustainable business practices; 6) develop and understanding of the legal implications of the ethical rules and social responsibilities of modern business.

CLASS PREPARATION:

You are expected to do the assigned readings before the class for which they are assigned. You should be prepared to discuss the questions presented at the beginning of each chapter. Prior to each class a listing to the lecture topics for that day will be posted in the course documents section of the blackboard web site for this course. (BA230-001) Your quiz scores and any other announcements for the course will be posted at that site.

COURSE EXAMS AND ASSIGNMENTS:

Weekly Quizzes: there will be nine quizzes in this course. The quizzes will be objective - normally a blend of true and false and multiple choice questions. The two lowest quizzes will be automatically dropped from the calculations of your final grade, hence there will be no make ups offered for missed quizzes. These quizzes will be 70% of your final course grade.

Final Exam: the final will be objective and comprehensive - questions will be similar to those seen on the quizzes. The final will be worth 30% of course grade. You are permitted to bring one 4 inch by 6 inch note card for use at the final. The note cards must be signed and submitted with your final examination.

GRADING:

This course will be grade on a plus/minus scale. For example, an 82% is a B-, 88% is a B+ and anything in between is a B. There will be no curve applied to this course. While I do round up partial if it is .6% or above under no circumstances will a final grade be rounded up to a grade that was not attained on either the quizzes or final exam component of the course.

ACADEMIC DISHONESTY:

Any case of academic dishonesty will result in an F for the course. This action is allowed by Academic Regulations and Procedures as described in the schedule of classes. If you have any doubt concerning their meaning and interpretation, ask for an explanation.

ASSIGNMENT SCHEDULE:

Week of:
March 29	Chapter 1 and intro Chapter 2
April 5	Chapter 2 and 3 - quiz
April 12	Chapter 4 and 5 - quiz
April 19	Chapter 6 (skip state admin. agencies) and Chapter 7 (skip criminal procedure) - quiz
April 26	Chapter 8 (skip comparative law) and Chapter 9 (skip private franchise) - quiz
May 3	Chapter 10 and sustainability - quiz
May 10	Chapter 11 (skip title, risk and insurable interest) - quiz
May 17	Chapter 12 - quiz
May 24	Chapter 13 and intro chapter 14 - quiz
May 31	Chapter 14 and 15 - quiz
FINAL EXAM	Tuesday June 7 - 7:30 A.M. - place to be announced