Note: Mandatory core courses (BUSN 100, ENTR 100, ACCT 100, ACCT 200, BUSN 200, FINC 310, OPMT 300, MKTG 200, MGMT 200, BETH 300, BLAW 300) must be completed by the end of the second year. Transfer students who have not completed an equivalent course must complete these courses by the end of their first semester, first year. The Department of Business Ethics and Legal Studies (BELS) is the college`s interdisciplinary center for research, teaching, and community engagement. BELS supports all Daniels programs to merge economics, law, ethics and public policy into a single study platform, enabling you to become an outstanding multidisciplinary decision-maker. Our research aims to identify issues of moral philosophy and applied ethics, including: This course provides an essential overview of corporate and white-collar crime. Through the use of real-life case studies, legal and ethical analyses, criminological research, and cultural reference materials such as iconic films and books, this course provides insight into the types, causes, and effects of crimes committed by corporations, executives and directors, professionals, and public servants. It will encourage critical analysis of current efforts to address recurring issues such as corruption, bribery, fraud, insider trading, money laundering, collusion and more through the enactment of criminal laws, international treaties, regulatory disclosure requirements, investigative methods and litigation. Prerequisite: Students who enroll in this cross-course must complete LGST 2000. It is strongly recommended that doctoral students have successfully completed a course in business law. This course covers (1) how a person starts a business, (2) what you need to know to start a new business and progress towards success, (3) the most current issues related to value creation, (4) strengthening and growing family businesses through the process of adopting best practices in governance, coupled with ethical behaviour, values-based leadership and regulatory compliance. Students are moved to tracks from which they can observe and absorb a way to ensure success and longevity in running a sole proprietorship or family business.
Cross-listing with LGST 4790. Requirements: LGST 2000. This course evaluates the most critical ways in which the U.S. Supreme Court interacts with and influences an individual`s life, career, education, freedom, and future. For ten weeks, we analyze how: (1) each important article of the Constitution and how it ends up all the way to the Court, (2) ultimately interpreted by each of the nine current judges, and (3) the subsequent implications of the opinion. The primary vehicles used for this task are actual Supreme Court cases, Federal District Court opinions, and briefs filed by parties and stakeholders on both sides of each dispute. Each of these documents is part of the public record and is easy to find. Since many students are likely to hear, believe, and/or resonate with only one side of every politically charged division case heard in court (perhaps because they only listen to one source of information or connect primarily with people with the same ideological leanings), this course will emphasize the importance of seeing both sides of important public policy. legal and ethical issues before taking a position. This is a valuable skill that is often overlooked in university courses, but will take a student far in life. Ethics and law play an increasingly important role in the workplace and in the global marketplace. Legal rules and regulations have proliferated at all levels of the organization, and successful managers need to understand how to integrate legal considerations into their planning and operations.
Leaders must also be able to recognize the ethical dimensions of decisions and make good choices in difficult situations. Our ethics and business law courses familiarize students with ethical decision-making tools and the fundamentals of the legal environment of companies at home and abroad to enhance ethical thinking and problem solving. The Legal Studies and Business Ethics concentration focuses on social values, moral concerns, and legal considerations that are essential aspects of corporate decision-making in our global market system. The courses students take in this program help them explore how responsible leaders can work ethically and effectively with diverse cultures, corporate interest groups, government regulators, and legal systems. Of particular value to students looking to broaden their business education, this concentration will help them acquire the essential, non-quantitative thinking skills required when leaders are faced with difficult decisions under conditions of empirical uncertainty and/or moral ambiguity – a common phenomenon in rapidly changing market economies. This course is a rigorous examination of negotiating trade agreements. Students learn to develop strategies in different conflict situations. Students will work closely with the professor and with each other in simulations to address the challenges of negotiation, engage in mediation and arbitration, and become effective masters in conflict resolution. Requirements: Minimum grade C- in LGST 2000. This course examines the current state of globalization and its impact on the economy.
In the context of ethical and legal standards, it examines how formal governmental and intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) exert pressure on business and influence business strategies and decisions. The course will also explore how companies can adapt to the comparative values and cultures of the international system, as well as universal values, and will analyse problems and cases from an idealistic and realistic perspective. Students apply analytical tools from ethics, law, and public policy to examine leading business cases on the following topics: global terrorism and political risk. Prerequisite: LGST 2000. Current real-world issues are analyzed in the study of constitutional law in relation to economics and free enterprise. Prerequisite: LGST 2000. The Daniels Fund Ethics Consortium Case Competition – a component of the Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative college program – exposes students to a challenging business ethics case on principle-based crisis management in business. The competition builds on the principles-based ethical framework that is at the heart of decision-making in a complex business environment. Students in this course learn to work in teams to jointly analyze, present and respond to different scenarios of companies in crisis, as well as answer questions from a jury.
The course challenges students` ethical thinking and provides an important opportunity to raise awareness of the importance of principled ethics for corporate crisis management. The aim of this course is to introduce students to ethical concepts, theories and problems related to business and management decisions. One of the areas of interest includes topics such as employee data protection, sales liability, sexual harassment, discrimination, intellectual property, whistleblowing, and professional/family conflicts. The course is also designed to introduce students to more general approaches or ways of thinking about ethics, and students will address some of the fundamental and fundamental issues of ethics. Cross-listing with MGMT 3100. Requirements: LGST 2000. The concentration is structured in such a way that students receive both a solid foundation for the BA in Business Administration and an additional focus on the legal environment for business. In this course, we`ll look at some of the legal and ethical considerations buyers, sellers, and agents face when buying or selling a home. This course takes students through the process of buying a home, from the initial stages of working with a real estate agent (including brokerage contracts and agency law) to presenting an offer/negotiation, understanding contract terms, contingencies and impacts, loan/financing considerations, title review, valuation, inspections, objections and negotiations, and closing of the purchase/sale.
Prerequisite: LGST 2000. Management`s perspective on the role of law and its relationship to the business environment; Focus on the U.S. legal system (legal history, courts, and civil procedure), private law (commercial offenses, contracts, corporate responsibility, and business ethics), and government intervention (constitutional law, labor law, white-collar crime, and corporate/securities law). Requirements: Class C – standing in BUS 1440 and Sophomore. Over the past 20 years, technological changes have been dramatic and profound, and navigating the future will be a constant challenge for the businessman. This course explores the legal and ethical dimensions of privacy, security, marketing, contracts, and intellectual property online. Prerequisite: LGST 2000. Law relating to partnerships, limited partnerships, corporations, real estate law, securities law, professional responsibilities and related studies. Only for accounting students.
Prerequisite: LGST 2000. The Department of Ethics and Business Law offers a legal and compliance concentration for undergraduate majors in business. Students in this major examine the legal system and the ways in which legal rules and processes influence business decisions. Students also deal with legal argumentation, defense and legal analysis of business transactions.