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Nov 10, 2024
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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.
Billable Contact Hours: 4
Search for Sections Transfer Possibilities Michigan Transfer Network (MiTransfer) - Utilize this website to easily search how your credits transfer to colleges and universities. OUTCOMES AND OBJECTIVES Outcome 1: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to explain the legal environment of business.
Objectives:
- Identify sources of law.
- Identify different court systems and alternative dispute resolutions.
- Compare different court systems and alternative dispute resolutions.
- Identify the Constitution of the United States.
- Identify the various federal and state administrative agencies.
- Explain the rule-making process for administrative agencies.
- Identify various types of crimes.
- Define various types of crimes.
- Identify various types of torts.
- Define the various types of torts.
- Identify various types of intellectual property rights.
- Compare different types of intellectual property rights.
Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to explain the social environment of business as it pertains the law.
Objectives:
- Define ethics and business ethics.
- Identify various ethical standards applied in businesses.
- Compare various ethical standards applied in businesses.
- Identify various categories of ethical behaviors.
- Compare various categories of ethical behaviors.
- Identify methods used for resolving ethical dilemmas.
- Compare methods used for resolving ethical dilemmas.
Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course, students will be able explain contracts.
Objectives:
- Identify various classifications of contracts.
- Identify elements for a contract.
- Define elements for a contract.
- Apply elements for a contract.
- The parol evidence rule.
- Identify rules of construction for interpreting contracts.
- Apply rules of construction for interpreting contracts.
- Distinguish between various third-party contracts.
- Identify the ways to discharge of contracts.
- Identify a breach and an anticipatory breach.
- Identify legal remedies and equitable remedies.
- Classify legal remedies and equitable remedies.
- Apply remedies for breach of contract.
Outcome 4: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to explain contracts involving sales (goods and leases of goods).
Objectives:
- Identify personal property.
- Classify personal property.
- Identify bailment carriers, warehouses, hotel keepers, factors, and consignments
- Identify various aspects of legal supply chain management.
- Compare various aspects of legal supply chain management.
- Identify contracts involving the sale of goods.
- Identify the formation of a sales contract.
- Identify the formation of leases involving personal property.
- Identify passage of title and risk of loss in sales contracts.
- Apply passage of title and risk of loss in sales contracts.
- Identify product liability theories.
- Compare product liability theories.
- Identify warranties provided by sellers.
- Compare warranties provided by sellers.
- Identify ways to discharge of sales contracts.
- Identify a breach and an anticipatory breach in a sales contract.
- Identify the non-breaching party’s available legal remedies and equitable remedies in a sales contract.
- Classify the non-breaching party’s legal remedies and equitable remedies in a sales contract.
COMMON DEGREE OUTCOMES (CDO)
- Communication: The graduate can communicate effectively for the intended purpose and audience.
- Critical Thinking: The graduate can make informed decisions after analyzing information or evidence related to the issue.
- Global Literacy: The graduate can analyze human behavior or experiences through cultural, social, political, or economic perspectives.
- Information Literacy: The graduate can responsibly use information gathered from a variety of formats in order to complete a task.
- Quantitative Reasoning: The graduate can apply quantitative methods or evidence to solve problems or make judgments.
- Scientific Literacy: The graduate can produce or interpret scientific information presented in a variety of formats.
CDO marked YES apply to this course: Communication: YES Critical Thinking: YES Global Literacy: YES Information Literacy: YES Quantitative Reasoning: YES COURSE CONTENT OUTLINE
- The legal and Social Environment of Business
- The adversary system
- Ethical standards and behaviors
- Contracts
- Offers
- Acceptance
- Capacity
- Consideration
- Legality
- Statute of Frauds
- Parol evidence rule
- Rules of construction and interpretation
- Assignments, delegations, and third-party beneficiary contracts
- Performance, breach, and remedies
- Sales and Lease of Goods
- Personal Property,
- Bailment and
- Common Carriers
- Sales
- Lease of Goods
- Title and Risk loss
- Product liability and warranties
- Performance, breach, and remedies
Primary Faculty Manatine, Jennifer R. Secondary Faculty Associate Dean Johnson, Elise Dean Balsamo, Michael
Primary Syllabus - Macomb Community College, 14500 E 12 Mile Road, Warren, MI 48088
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