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Business Law Minor Program Website Law plays a role in our everyday lives, and you don`t have to be in a courtroom to see it in action. It`s at work when you sign a contract on a car or house. It can also play a role in the business world, whether you`re managing a personal business or working with corporate counsel. While our pre-law minor is not designed to make you a lawyer, it will help you recognize legal issues and responsibilities and make you more comfortable in a legal environment.Many of our Business Law minors are considering law school. Throughout your courses, you will learn skills that will help you succeed in law school such as cricital thinking, public speaking and analytical writing. Business law gives pre-law students a better understanding about what law school and being a lawyer is really like.Our minor is also designed for students who are not interested in law school but want to understand the legal aspects of their selected fields - the music major interested in independent contracting or the marketing major wanting a better understanding of contracts and sales. All of these students are looking to learn about their basic legal rights in any business or non-business situation.Pre-law stresses skills such as critical and analytical thinking (including case analysis), speaking (both in prepared presentations and “on your feet”), and writing. Students take a complex set of facts, analyze the issues, and argue both sides of an issue. Our courses address subjects like contracts, sales, promissory notes, real estate, corporations, bailment, bankruptcy, white-collar crime and environment, as well as ethics. Faculty
Special Features The Business Law minor provides a capstone course designed to help students determine whether they want to go to law school. This course mirrors a first-year law class and includes first-year law text, law tests and classroom procedures such as briefing cases and facts issue decision rule of law. Course Information A component of the Rinker Institute of Accounting, the Business Law minor consists of five courses designed at the sophomore, junior, and senior level with each course more demanding and rewarding than the previous one. Classes incorporate a separate and independent area of law, and do not build on one another. Courses and electives include The Legal, Social and Ethical Environment of Business, Business Law I - III, Introduction to Financial Accounting, Principles of Insurance, Sociology of Law, Law and Society, and The American Judicial Process.
Clubs and Organizations Phi Alpha Delta pre-law fraternity Department Awards Stetson Business School Foundation Inc. Merit Award for Business Law |
Contact:
Richard W. Copeland 386-822-7417 rcopelan@stetson.edu Full Time Faculty: 2 Degrees Offered: Minor in Business Law |
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