Syllabus: Business Law 230-002 & 003

230-002 - 326 Bexell Hall - M & W 4-6

230-003 - 412 Bexell Hall - M & W 12-2

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 this course. The publishers offers a text website for the text book at http://www.swlearning.com/blaw/ele/le1e.html

This web site includes 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 an ability to critically analyze current legal proceedings and issues and relate them to the material covered in the course; 4) develop an ability to analyze selected current cases and relate the rules of those cases for the management of modern business enterprises; 5) acquire an understanding of sustainability and sustainable business practices; 6) develop and understanding of the legal implications of the ethical rules and social responsibility of modern business.

CLASS PREPARATION:

You are expected to do the assigned reading before the class for which it is assigned. You should be prepared to discuss the questions at the beginning of each chapter. Prior to each class a listing of the lecture topics for that day will be posted on the blackboard web site for the course. In addition to the assigned reading and the examinations you will have 3 writing assignments - see the assignment schedule for due dates. These assignments must be typed and submitted at the beginning of class.

Brief description of the Writing Assignments:

Ethics - you will be required to consider ethical issues in regards to the operations and management of a corporation or other business form.

Legal Reasoning - reading and considering judicial opinions and writing about those decisions.

Sustainability - a consideration of sustainable business practices - note - this material is not presented in your text so being in class for the lectures on this topic is essential.

COURSE EXAMS AND ASSIGNMENTS:

Chapter Tests: There will be three chapter test covering various chapters covered in class. First hour exam = 10% of course, remaining two hour exams will be 20% of the course each.

Writing Assignments: 5% for each assignment.

Final Exam: Comprehensive but with a greater stress on the latter part of the course material. You may use one four by six inch note card for the final. That note card must be signed and submitted with your final exam. The final will be worth 35 % of your course grade.

GRADING:

This course will be graded on a plus/minus scale. For example, an 82% if a B-, and 88% is a B+ and in between is a B. There will be no curve applied to this course, nor will extra credit be accepted. I do round up partial percentage points to the next whole number this will happen only if the partial is .6% or greater and under no circumstances will a final grade be rounded up to a grade that was not attained on either the hour exams or the final exam component of the course.

ACADEMIC DISHONESTY:

Academic dishonesty is using another’s work or aiding someone in doing so is cheating. Don‘t do it! Any case of academic dishonest will result in aq F for the course. This action is allowed by the Academic Regulations and Procedures as described int eh schedule of classes. If you have any doubts concerning their meaning or interpretation, ask for an explanation. This syllabus is a guide to this course - not a contract - hence changes to this syllabus may be made by the instructor and, if they occur, will be announced in class and posted to the blackboard web site for the course.

ASSIGNMENT SCHEDULE:

Week of:
March 28	Chapter 1 and intro Chapter 2
April 4	Finish Chapter 2 and Chapter 3
April 11	Chapter 4 - First Chapter Test over chapters 1,2 &3 on Wed.
April 18	Chapter 5 and Chapter 6 (skip state admin. agencies) - Paper 1
April 25	Chapter 7(skip criminal procedure) and Chapter 8 (skip comparative law) Chapter Test 2 - Chapters 4,5,6 and 7 on Wed.
May 2	Sustainable business practices and Chapter 9 (skip private franchises) - paper 2
May 9	Chapter 10 and Chapter 11 (skip Title, Risk and Insurable Interest) Chapter Test 3 - Chapters 9,10,11 and sustainability
May 16	Chapter 12 and intro Chapter 13
May 23	Finish Chapter 13 and chapter 14
May 30	Finish chapter 14 and Chapter 15 (skip age discrimination)
FINAL EXAM	Tuesday June 7 - 7:30 A.M. - place to be announced