BLAW 1080 - Business Law 1 Credit Hours: 4.00 Prerequisites: None
(formerly BUSN 1080)
This fundamentals course is designed to provide a comprehensive overview of the legal and social environment of business, contracts, sales, and lease of goods.
Contact Hours: 4
OUTCOMES AND OBJECTIVES Outcome 1: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to identify and explain the legal and social environment of business.
Objectives: With a minimum proficiency of Level 3 on the discipline rubric:
- The nature and sources of law
- The court system and dispute resolution
- The constitution as the foundation of the legal environment
- Government regulation of competition and prices
- Administrative agencies
- Explain crimes
- Explain torts
- Intellectual property rights and the Internet
- Cyberlaw
Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to identify and explain contracts.
Objectives: With a minimum proficiency of Level 3 on the discipline rubric:
- Nature and classes of contracts: contracting on the Internet
- Formation of contracts: offer and acceptance
- Capacity and genuine assent
- Consideration
- Legality and public policy
- Writing, electronic forms, and interpretation of contracts
- Third persons and contracts
- Discharge of contracts
- Breach of contract and remedies
Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to identify and explain sales and leases of goods through assignments, discussions, lectures and examination of:
Objectives: With a minimum proficiency of Level 3 on the discipline rubric:
- Personal property and bailments
- Legal aspects of supply chain management
- Nature and form of sales
- Title and risk of loss
- Product liability: warranties and torts
- Obligations and performance
- Remedies for breach of sales contracts
COMMON DEGREE OUTCOMES (Bulleted outcomes apply to the course)
- 1. The graduate can integrate the knowledge and technological skills necessary to be a successful learner.
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- 2. The graduate can demonstrate how to think competently.
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- 3. The graduate can demonstrate how to employ mathematical knowledge.
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- 4. The graduate can demonstrate how to communicate competently.
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- 5. The graduate is sensitive to issues relating to a diverse, global society
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COURSE CONTENT OUTLINE
- The legal and Social Environment of Business
- The Adversary System
- Contracts
- Offers, Acceptance and Capacity
- Consideration and Legality
- Statute of Frauds and Evidence Rule
- Assignments, discharge and breach of contracts
- Sales and Lease of Goods
- Personal Property, Bailment and Common Carriers
- Sales
- Lease of Goods
- Title and Risk loss
- Product liability and warranties
- Obligations, Performance and Remedies
Primary Faculty Hetchler, Robert Secondary Faculty Associate Dean Johnson, Elise Dean Corba, David
Official Course Syllabus - Macomb Community College, 14500 E 12 Mile Road, Warren, MI 48088
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