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3 credits
Fall 2025 Lecture Distance Learning Lower DivisionAn examination and study, for management students, of the nature and place of law in our society, both national and international, the social and moral bases of law enactment, regulation of business, legal liability, enforcement procedures, and the legal environment for managers.
Learning Outcomes1Understand the differences between criminal law and civil law.
2Compare and contrast positive law and equity.
3Recognize the differences and similarities between statutes, acts, codes, administrative regulations, ordinances, and common law.
4Be able to differentiate between a plaintiff and a defendant.
5Be familiar with the court system and aspects of discovery.
6Recognize substitutes for the court system and their significance.
7Understand the protections and freedoms associated with a democracy.
8Compare and contrast morals and law.
9Recognize how society balances social forces.
10Be able to understand the significance of the Interstate Commerce Clause.
11Be able to apply federal pre-emption and federal supremacy to legal issues.
12Apply the first 10 Amendments to the US Constitution to legal situations.
13Understand the significance of the 14th Amendment.
14Be familiar with the Sherman, Clayton & Robinson-Patman Antitrust Acts.
15Compare and contrast agency law to the bedrock interpretation of the US Constitution.
16Recognize the significance of the Freedom of Information Act and the Sunshine Act.
17Explain the nature and classifications of crimes
18Describe the basis of criminal liability.
19Recognize US Constitutional issues related to crimes.
20Describe the differences between crimes such as larceny and embezzlement, and trespass and burglary.
21Compare and contrast English common law crimes and modern day crimes.
22Explain how the courts can expand or restrict constitutional and statutory language.
23Recognize the differences between torts and crimes.
24Distinguishing between an assault and a battery.
25Being able to explain the elements of negligence and the defenses.
26Recognizing strict liability legal issues, which include product liability and absolute liability.
27Know and be able to use the seven elements of contract law.
28Distinguish between how positive law and equity are involved in contract law.
29Be able to differentiate between which contracts need to be in writing and which contracts can be oral.
30Compare and contract option contracts and right of first refusal contracts.
31Be familiar with types of damages, such as compensative, punitive & liquidated.
32Be able to recognize legal concerns in regard to contracts.
33Be able to recognize and explain the different types of bailments.
34Compare and contrast gift law and contract law.
35Explain the differences between real and personal property.
36Recognize the differences between tenancy in common, joint tenancy right of survivorship, tenancy by the entirety and community property.
37Be able to recognize and apply examples of adverse possession.
38Compare and contrast prescriptive easements to adverse possession.
39Describe the differences between licensee, trespasser, and invitee.
40Explain what a lien is and its significance in law.
41Compare and contrast a fee simple and a life estate.
42Compare and contrast zoning laws to restrictive covenants.
43Recognize and describe a zoning nonconforming use.
44Compare and contrast nonconforming uses to variances.
45Describe the differences between a Chapter 7, 11, and
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47Be able to explain what a preferential transfer is.
48Recognize the differences between a voluntary bankruptcy and an involuntary bankruptcy.
49Explain the priority of claims and an automatic stay in bankruptcy.
50Describe the exemptions in a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy.
51Explain the nature and classifications of automobile insurance.
52Compare and contrast homeowners insurance to business insurance
53Know and be able to apply insurable interest law to all areas of insurance.
54Explain burden of proof, bad faith and subrogation and apply these principles to insurance law.
55Compare and contrast inland marine insurance and ocean marine insurance.
56Distinguish the difference between term, whole life and endowment insurance.
57Explain the difference between workers compensation insurance and tort law.
58Define agency law.
59Compare and contrast actual agency authority to apparent agency authority.
60Compare and contrast an employee with an independent contractor.
61Describe the significance of the Fair Labor Standard Act to employment law.
62Recognize the labor law violations that can occur under the National Labor Relation Act.
63Distinguish between an at-will employee and a contract employee.
64Describe the different applications beyond retirement that the Social Security Act covers.
65Recognize what is covered and disallowed under the Unemployment Compensation Act.
66Under the 1964, Civil Rights Act, and its amendments, distinguish between the protections provided under religion, sex, national origin, race and color.
67Compare and contrast the Age Discrimination Act, and its amendments to the American with Disability Act.