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BL 101: Business Law (Entrepreneurship)


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This course covers the basic concepts of: (i) obligations and contracts; (ii) agency, sales and credit transactions; and (iii) partnerships and corporations, which a person may encounter in the ordinary course of her/his private and business life. Particular attention is given to the laws, rules and regulations that apply to the various activities of an entrepreneur. Case situations are studied and analyzed in relation to legal concepts.

Objectives:

1. To develop among the students an appreciation of business laws by providing them with a light and easy discussion of legal terminologies defined and illustrated in layman’s terms.

2. To allow the students to become independent and responsible entrepreneurs by imparting in them a sound knowledge of the nature, concepts and intricacies of business laws.

3. To provide the students with a broad overview of the laws on the basic laws, rules and regulations which are essential in their pursuit of a career in entrepreneurship.

 
Value Aims:

This course aims to reaffirm the Miriam vision by stressing the importance of conforming with Christian norms and honoring legal obligations. It aims to instill in students the value of engendering fair and just business practices that go beyond profit and probe into the higher realm of ethics both in theory and in practice as extolled in the Miriam vision.

 
References:

The instructor will provide online links, readings and other content. 

 
Course Requirements / Grading System:
 
Student Output:

At the end of the course, the student must be able to apply the knowledge gleaned on the basic legal concepts to a theoretical case study to be provided by the professor. 

 
Academic dishonesty
 
All business students are expected to be academically honest. Cheating, lying and other forms of immoral and unethical behavior will not be tolerated. Any student found guilty of cheating in examinations or plagiarism in submitted course requirements will (at a minimum) receive an F or failure in the course. Plagiarism and cheating refer to the use of unauthorized books, notes or otherwise securing help in a test; copying tests, assignments, reports or term papers; representing the work of another person as one’s own; collaborating without authority, wit another student during an examination or in preparing academic work; signing another student’s name on an attendance sheet; or otherwise practicing scholastic dishonesty.