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RARITAN VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Business Law II BUSI- Course Outline
I. Basic Course Information A. Date: December 2005 B. Course Prefix and Title: Business Law II (BUSI 132) C. Sponsoring Department: Business and Public Service D. Semester Credit Hours: 3 E. Weekly Contact Hours: 3 Lecture 3 Laboratory 0 F. Prerequisites: Business Law I G. Laboratory Fees: None
II. Catalog Description
Prerequisites: Business Law I (BUSI 131) This course deals with employment, real estate, wills and estates, commercial paper, personal property, bailment, sales, and introduction to partnerships and corporations. Text is available with CD-ROM. GATT facilities (multimedia presentations) are utilized. Service Learning opportunities offered.
III. Statement of Course Need
This course is an essential element in both transfer and career degree programs since it provides students with a functional familiarity with some major legal principles affecting business persons and business transactions. In addition, Business Law II familiarizes students with a legal vocabulary and enables them to navigate within our complex legal system
IV. Place of Course in College Curriculum This course is a requirement in the following programs: Degree Program: AAS Degree: Marketing, Paralegal Studies
Certificate: C.P.A.
As posted on NJTransfer, this course transfers to most institutions as Business Law 2 or as an elective.
V. Outline of Course Content
I. Agency II. Domestic and International Sales Law III. Property IV. Special Topics V. Negotiable instruments VI. Business organizations
VI. Education Goals and Learning Outcomes
General Education Goals
Students will:
- analyze actual cases and hypotheticals (G.E. 1)
- communicate effectively, via written and verbal classroom presentations (G.E. 2)
- analyze information from different sources, such as class lectures PowerPoint, the text, and the internet. (G.E. 3)
- critique ethical issues presented in actual court decisions as well as in ethical hypotheticals. (G.E. 5)
- explain the similarities and differences in values, perspectives and behaviors of divers people and how these differences impact the law (G.E. 6)
Student Learning Outcomes
Students will be able to:
- report on the major legal principles in tort, contract, and agency law, as well as differentiate between common law and statutory law and between the federal and state court systems;
- explain the structure of the New Jersey court system;
- analyze actual cases as well as hypotheticals (case problems);
- solve legal problems by recognizing legal issues and applying the applicable law to a given set of facts in order to reach a reasonable solution;
- examine information from different sources (assigned readings, class lectures, internet);
- critique situations involving legal ethics issues.
VII. Modes of Teaching
- Lecture/discussion
- Computer-assisted instruction
- Student oral presentations
- Locate secondary sources of law in print and online
- Analyze secondary sources of law
- Apply sources of law using accurate legal terminology
- Honors Option Content
A qualified student in the course may choose an Honors Option. Students will be required to:
- Attend a research workshop with the instructor, at which time the scope of the project will be discussed. The student will be oriented to the print and internet sources for legal research
- Develop an Initial Report selecting the legal research topic, providing a one paragraph rationalization for choice of topic, and including three identified sources of legal information on the topic.
- Submit at least one additional progress report during the semester listing the progress to date of the project, and any difficulties the student has encountered.
- Produce a final report and submit to the sponsoring faculty member. Such report will be an overall summary of work completed during the project.
- Create a presentation to the class summarizing the project, and facilitate a discussion of the legal issues discussed in the report.
- Assessment Instruments
Research workshop Initial report Progress Report Final Report Presentation
- Grade Determination
The reports and presentation used as instruments (noted above) will be used to assess the students according to the learning outcomes.
A student who begins, but does not complete, the requirements for the Honors Options will instead be assessed utilizing the standard grading components for the non-Honors Option version of the course, and receive a grade for the standard course.
