The Legal and Ethical Environment of Business

Creator Name

Cristen W. Dutcher, Kennesaw State UniversityFollow

Home Department for Course

School of Accountancy

Course Prefix

BLAW

Course Number

2200

Course Description

This course is an introduction of the relationship between law and the business environment. The material includes an overview of the areas of law that are relevant to business, including torts, crimes, contracts, the Constitution, antitrust, real estate, court procedure, government regulation, intellectual property and remedies. The class also addresses ethical issues that may arise in a business’s internal and external activities. Many of these topics will overlap such as computer crime legislation, liability for errors in data or programming for an IT system, or the ethics of revealing information to gain an advantage in business.

Major Assessments

chapter discussions, unit tests, final exam

Modalities

Online (Asynchronous)

Evaluation Instrument used for Course Review and Approval

Quality Matters

D2L Course Code/Course Offering

CDUTCHER_TEST_COURSE

KSU Status/Last Review Date

11-20-2020

Comments

Syllabus is submitted in two parts - Pre-Vote and Post-Vote to demonstrate the change in Syllabus after students vote on certain course policies for the class.

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