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The business law minor prepares students with an understanding of the legal framework governing the business world.
Why Earn Your Minor in Business Law at Sacred Heart?
Business leaders need to understand the legal framework that governs how they operate their organizations. Such preparation equips them with the ability to recognize, foresee and, together with legal counsel, avoid the legal risks present in such a world.
The courses in this 15-credit minor cover legal responsibility in several business contexts, ranging from employer-employee relationships and athlete-team relations to lender-borrower agreements. Collectively, the courses introduce the overarching idea that a business leader needs to be familiar with legal compliance issues to avoid liability.
Exposure to the critical thinking values inherent in such studies will also create more confident, better informed and more collaborative decision makers and more confident communicators. The business law minor is open to students in any major.
For students planning to apply to law school, the University also offers a pre-law minor entitled Law & Justice. The Law & Justice minor focuses on the content and skills necessary to prepare students for the law school application process and for law school.
Required Courses
WCBT students: MGT 231 is already part of the required business courses
This is a survey course. The objective of this class is to learn to apply legal and ethical principles to managerial-related problems. The course provides a general study of areas of laws pertinent to business, including tort law, contract law, employment law, criminal law, and constitutional law. The student is expected to learn to identify legal issues and consider the ethical implications of his or her solution or decision.
3.0 Credit(s)
Provides an advanced survey of law adapted to the business environment. Areas of study include the uniform commercial code, agency law, business organizations, property law, securities law, secured transactions law, and bankruptcy law.
Prerequisite: Take MGT-231 or BU-231
3.0 Credit(s)
Elective Courses
Choose three
A general survey of international law including treaties and international organizations. Topics include the European community, WTO, U.S. trade policy, international contracts, and international payment mechanisms.
Prerequisite: Take MGT-231 or BU-231
3.0 Credit(s)
A survey of the laws which create, regulate, and terminate the relationship between the employer and the employee, including contract law, federal and state antidiscrimination statutes, wage and hour statutes, and other applicable law. With a microanalysis of the life of an employee complaint, from internal filing to litigation.
3.0 Credit(s)
Negotiation is the art and science of securing agreements between two or more interdependent parties. Hence, the purpose of this course is to develop an understanding of the psychological and strategic dynamics of negotiation. The course is grounded in the major concepts and theories of bargaining, negotiation, and mediation and is designed to use a combination of simulations and analysis to build your own personal experience in the classroom and in the real world.
3.0 Credit(s)
Examines the judiciary's role in the American political process. Topics include the nature of law, political influence in judicial decision-making, court organization, judicial recruitment, and the powers and limitations of the judiciary.
3.0 Credit(s)
An inquiry into American constitutional law through the study of outstanding cases. Attention is given to the development of constitutional doctrines and the processes of legal reasoning.
3.0 Credit(s)
Explores the application of legal principles to the sport industry and provides basic knowledge of a wide range of legal statutes that relate to various dimensions of sport business. Major focus is on a review of judicial opinions in the areas of tort liability (risk management), agency and contract law, labor and employment law, and antitrust issues that frequently have been addressed in cases involving sport enterprises.
Prerequisite: BU 231 or MGT-231
3.0 Credit(s)
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