SCANS Foundation Skills: F1,2,5,6,10,11,12; Competency Skills: C5,6,7,15 COURSE SYLLABUS COURSE TITLE: BUSG 2305 - BUSINESS LAW Summer 2011, Section 151 Internet Course INSTRUCTOR: Jeannie Coggins OFFICE: Room #109 ATC, 716-4917 E-MAIL: [email protected] SPECIAL SERVICES A student who enrolls in this class that may need additional instructional accommodations is strongly encouraged to schedule an intake interview with the special services department before enrolling in this class or prior to the add/drop date for this semester. COURSE DESCRIPTION This course is a study of the principles of law which form the legal framework for business activity including applicable statutes, contracts, and agency. COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES The student will define fundamental legal terminology regarding contracts, torts, and property, differentiate between business ethics and legal issues; and identify and explain required elements of torts, requirements of contracts, and various consumer laws as applied to business and individuals. DISCLAIMER STATEMENT This is to notify you that the materials you may be accessing in chat rooms, bulletin boards or unofficial web pages are not officially sponsored by South Plains College. The United States Constitution rights of free speech apply to all members of our community regardless of the medium used. We disclaim all liability for data, information or opinions expressed in these forums. TEXT AND OTHER MATERIALS Miller and Jentz. Business Law Today; The Essentials: West Legal Studies in Business /Thomson Learning, Ninth Edition. ©2011 with online access code for WebTutor™ Advantage on WebCT™ Secondary storage media (Flash/Jump drive, floppy disk, computer hard drive, etc.) COURSE STRUCTURE This course is an online course, which means that you will access course information and respond to me through the use of the Internet. Blackboard is used to deliver and manage this course. It is a software package that was written to help manage online courses. There is help available for students at the SPC Online Web site. You can access this site at http://www.southplainscollege.edu/online/students/studentguide/index.htm. Please take a moment to read over the information at this site before you get started. If the online environment is new to you or if you have problems of any nature, please do not let yourself become overwhelmed or spend hours of your time trying to figure out how to access something. You have many sources available to you for help. You can contact me by e-mail, telephone, or come by my office. Also, there is help available at the online Web site which is www.southplainscollege.edu/online.ATTENDANCE POLICY Even though this is an online class, students still have to access the course on a regular basis. The Blackboard software used to manage this online course tracks student logins, tracking when and where the student has been in the course. Accessing this course on a regular basis is extremely important in order to meet the objectives of this course. You will feel more at ease with the materials if you stay in touch with what is going on. Minimum log in for the course is at least four (4) days per week. I strongly recommend that you log in everyday. WITHDRAWAL POLICY If for any reason the student is unable to complete the course requirements, it is the student’s responsibility to initiate their own withdrawal by the 1st drop date for the semester. An administrative drop by the instructor in this course will, in most cases, result in the student receiving an “F” (not an “X”). ASSIGNMENT POLICY Assignments are due by Midnight on the date posted on the course calendar. You will be required to complete true/false and multiple choice quizzes for each assigned chapter from the textbook. You will also answer essay questions for each assigned chapter. These quizzes and essay questions can be found through Blackboard in the Course Content link located on the Home page. Discussion questions are available for each chapter and will be assigned. An assignment list will be added to the home page. Be sure to use all resources available through Blackboard to learn the material in the chapters. Some of those resources include PowerPoint slide presentations, chapter content outlines and flashcards. These are all found in the Course Content section. All assignments will be submitted through Blackboard. Do not send your assignments to my SPC e-mail address. If you send your lessons/assignments to my SPC e-mail, they will not be graded. A discussion questions will be presented for each chapter. You will be required to discuss the initial topic or question and also to respond to comments made by one of your classmates. Everyone must discuss the topic twice. The assignment link will explain in more detail. EVALUATION & GRADING POLICY Four course content exams and a final exam will be given during the semester. Each exam will include questions from three or four of the textbook chapters and will consist of a true/false section and a multiple choice section. The final exam will be comprehensive and the questions will taken from the first four exams. An extra credit opportunity will be offered for each of the first four exams. You will be required to find a current event article or news story that addresses an issue from a topic in one of the chapters included in the exam. A scanned copy of the article or the URL address of the website of the article will be required. You will write a brief, but thorough, summary of the article and a brief, but thorough, explanation of how the information in the article applies to information covered in the textbook. You may use a word processing program to prepare the summary and application explanation, but you must save the file as an html file. Instructions on how to send the file on the day of the test will come in future instructions prior to the first exam. GRADING: The semester grade will be based as follows: Chapter Quizzes (Blackboard) ......................................... 15% A = ......................... 100-90% Chapter Essay Questions (Blackboard) ........................... 20% B = ........................... 89-80% Chapter Discussion/Homework ........................................ 10% C = .......................... 79-70% Exam #1 .............................................................................. 10% D = ..........................