10102160Business Law 1
Course Information
Description
Learners will survey several basic topics including the legal and ethical environments of business, history of law, criminal and tort law, dispute resolution, contracts, intellectual property, product liability, warranties, antitrust, agency, employment, marital property law, government regulation, international law, ethics, and social responsibility.
Total Credits
3
Course Competencies
  1. Explain the historical and constitutional foundations of law as they relate to business.
    Assessment Strategies
    Skill demonstration through written product, exam, or oral presentation
    Criteria
    You are successful when you meet the minimum standard score (70%) on written product, exam or oral presentation addressing the following learning objectives:
    a.    Identify the four primary sources of law in the United States
    b.    Explain the common law tradition
    c.     Define precedent
    d.    Differentiate remedies at law and remedies in equity
    e.    Explain classifications of law
    f.      Explain the commerce clause
    g.    Explain the importance of the Bill of Rights
    h.    Identify the freedoms the First Amendment guarantees

  2. Illustrate judicial procedures.
    Assessment Strategies
    Skill demonstration through exam, written product (summary of court proceeding)
    Criteria
    You are successful when you meet the minimum standard score (70%) on exam or written product (summary of court proceeding) addressing the following learning objectives:
    a.    Define judicial review and describe how it was established
    b.    Name and explain the types of jurisdiction for federal and state courts
    c.     Explain how courts apply traditional jurisdictional concepts to cases involving Internet transactions
    d.    Differentiate trial and appellate courts within state and federal court systems
    e.    Define pleadings
    f.      Differentiate electronic discovery and traditional discovery
    g.    Differentiate negotiation, mediation, and arbitration
    h.    Explain how online forums are used to resolve disputes

  3. Examine torts that can occur in any context, including the business environment.
    Assessment Strategies
    Skill demonstration through written product, exam, or oral presentation
    Criteria
    You are successful when you meet the minimum standard score (70%) on written product, exam or oral presentation addressing the following learning objectives:
    a.    Differentiate tort law and criminal law
    b.    Define tort
    c.     Explain the purpose of tort law
    d.    Identify the two basic categories of torts
    e.    Identify the four elements of negligence
    f.      Explain strict liability and the circumstances in which strict liability is applied
    g.    Define cyber tort
    h.    Explain how the law protects personal electronic communications
    i.      Explain what is required to maintain a lawsuit for invasion of privacy online
    j.      Explain legal issues as they pertain to social media

  4. Analyze why criminal law is an important element in the legal environment of business.
    Criteria
    You are successful when you meet the minimum standard score (70%) on written product, exam or oral presentation addressing the following learning objectives:
    a.    Identify two elements that must exist before a person can be held liable for a crime
    b.    Identify the five broad categories of crimes
    c.     Define white collar crime
    d.    Define cyber crime
    e.    Identify the laws that apply to crimes in cyberspace
    f.      Explain the defenses that might be raised by criminal defendants to avoid liability for criminal acts
    g.    Explain the constitutional safeguards that exist to protect persons accused of crimes
    h.    Identify the procedural steps in the criminal process
    1.    Analyze agency relationships

  5. Analyze agency relationships
    Assessment Strategies
    Skill demonstration through written product, exam, or oral presentation
    Criteria
    You are successful when you meet the minimum standard score (70%) on written product, exam or oral presentation addressing the following learning objectives:
    a.    Differentiate an employee and an independent contractor
    b.    Explain how agency relationships arise
    c.     Explain what duties agents and principals owe to each other
    d.    Explain the liability of agents and principals with respect to third parties
    e.    Identify some of the ways in which an agency relationship can be terminated

  6. Analyze significant laws regulating employment relationships
    Assessment Strategies
    Skill demonstration through written product, exam, or oral presentation
    Criteria
    You are successful when you meet the minimum standard score (70%) on written product, exam or oral presentation addressing the following learning objectives:
    a.    Define constructive discharge
    b.    Explain the employment-at-will doctrine and its exceptions
    c.     Explain the purpose of workers’ compensation laws
    d.    Explain when an employee can utilize the Family and Medical Leave Act
    e.    Identify the two federal statutes that govern immigration and employment
    f.      Identify three defenses to claims of employment discrimination
    g.    Explain the requirements to establish a prima facie case of disparate-treatment discrimination

  7. Explain how ethics apply to the business environment
    Assessment Strategies
    Skill demonstration through written product, exam, or oral presentation
    Criteria
    You are successful when you meet the minimum standard score (70%) on written product, exam or oral presentation addressing the following learning objectives:
    a.    Explain two different views of the role of business in society
    b.    Explain short-term profit maximization and how it can lead to ethical problems
    c.     Identify ethical issues that could arise in the context of global business transactions

  8. Analyze the laws protecting commerce from unlawful restraints
    Assessment Strategies
    Skill demonstration through written product, exam, or oral presentation
    Criteria
    You are successful when you meet the minimum standard score (70%) on written product, exam or oral presentation addressing the following learning objectives:
    a.    Define monopoly
    b.    Define market power and how it relates to monopolies
    c.     Explain the types of activities prohibited by the Sherman Act
    d.    Identify the four major provisions of the Clayton Act and the activities that these provisions prohibit
    e.    Identify the agencies of the federal government that enforce federal antitrust laws
    f.      Explain when a US court applies the Sherman Act to foreign persons/entities

  9. Examine agreement and consideration as essential requirements for a contract
    Assessment Strategies
    Skill demonstration through written product, exam, or oral presentation
    Criteria
    You are successful when you meet the minimum standard score (70%) on written product, exam or oral presentation addressing the following learning objectives:
    a.    Define contract
    b.    Identify the four basic elements necessary to the formation of a valid contract
    c.     Explain the three requirements of an offer
    d.    Explain how an offer can be accepted
    e.    Explain the two elements of consideration
    f.      Explain how click-on and shrink-wrap agreements differ
    g.    Identify the circumstances when a promise could be enforced without consideration

  10. Examine capacity and legality as essential requirements for a contract
    Assessment Strategies
    Skill demonstration through written product, exam, or oral presentation
    Criteria
    You are successful when you meet the minimum standard score (70%) on written product, exam or oral presentation addressing the following learning objectives:
    a.    Identify exceptions to the rule that a minor can disaffirm (avoid) any contract
    b.    Examine the capacity of intoxicated and mentally incompetence persons to enter into an enforceable contract
    c.     Identify the elements that must exist for fraudulent misrepresentation to occur
    d.    Identify the contracts that must be in writing to be enforceable
    e.    Explain the circumstances that must occur for courts to enforce a covenant not to compete
    f.      Identify contracts that are contrary to statute and public policy

  11. Examine third party rights, discharge, breach, and remedies related to contracts
    Assessment Strategies
    Skill demonstration through written product, exam, or oral presentation
    Criteria
    You are successful when you meet the minimum standard score (70%) on written product, exam or oral presentation addressing the following learning objectives:
    a.    Differentiate assignment and delegation
    b.    Identify the factors that distinguish a third party beneficiary from an intended beneficiary
    c.     Differentiate compensatory damages and consequential damages
    d.    Define nominal damages and explain when courts award them
    e.    Explain the circumstances where equitable remedies are available
    f.      Explain the requirements of quasi-contract

  12. Examine warranties, product liability, and consumer law
    Assessment Strategies
    Skill demonstration through written product, exam, or oral presentation
    Criteria
    You are successful when you meet the minimum standard score (70%) on written product, exam or oral presentation addressing the following learning objectives:
    a.    Explain deceptive advertising
    b.    Explain the requirements of Regulation Z and how it relates to the Truth-in-Lending Act
    c.     Explain the federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA)
    d.    Explain the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)
    e.    Explain the perfect tender rule
    f.      Explain the remedies that are available to a seller/lessor when the buyer/lessee breaches a contract
    g.    Explain the implied warranties under the UCC

  13. Examine the ownership rights of personal property
    Assessment Strategies
    Skill demonstration through written product, exam, or oral presentation
    Criteria
    You are successful when you meet the minimum standard score (70%) on written product, exam or oral presentation addressing the following learning objectives:
    a.    Differentiate personal and real property
    b.    Identify the three elements necessary for an effective gift
    c.     Identify ways personal property can be acquired
    d.    Identify the three elements of bailment
    e.    Describe the basic rights and duties of a bailor and a bailee Identify the clauses typically included in insurance contracts

  14. Examine the ownership rights of real property
    Assessment Strategies
    Skill demonstration through written product, exam, or oral presentation
    Criteria
    You are successful when you meet the minimum standard score (70%) on written product, exam or oral presentation addressing the following learning objectives:
    a.    Define a fixture and how it relates to real property rights
    b.    Explain the difference between joint tenancy and tenants in common
    c.     Explain the Wisconsin marital property law
    d.    Explain the requirements for acquiring property through adverse possession
    e.    Explain the duties of the landlord/tenant with respect to the use and maintenance of real property
    f.      Explain the three goals of the Clean Water Act
    g.    Explain Superfund and the categories of people who are liable under Superfund

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