Faculty Syllabus

 Instructor: Jim Christianson

 Email : jchristi@austincc.edu

Telephone: (512) 477-3448 or 512 468-2892

Blackboard: Copies of all Power points will be posted  on Class Blackboard

Office Hours: Thursday: 5PM- 6PM during the session.     During the first   office hour of the semester there will be an orientation session at 5PM for those who want  to attend and ask any questions about the syllabus  Here is the Google Meet link meet.google.com/brf-pmyd-xcr
or Join by phone ‪(US) +1 845-293-2641 PIN: ‪970 978 636# This will be the google meet link for all future office hours that will be held every Thursday  night at 5 PM during the semester. . Remember this office hour link is different from the link below where you take your exams.

The Business Law Commercial Distance Learning course is offered for those students with the maturity and self-discipline to maintain their own study schedule and to take the exams at the times required. Students with deficiencies in basic reading and writing skills should not enroll in this course. Nor, should the course be taken by students who rely on class discussion and questions to explain lectures and reading assignments.

The course is not self-paced, since exams must be taken no later than certain dates indicated on the syllabus; however, it is possible to complete the course earlier than the end of the semester. The course and its college credit are equivalent to those offered on campus. Internet and ACC g-mail access is required.

Important. An initial practice exam needs to be completed and return via email  to the instructor by Sunday  August 31st    by 6 PM. Email exam : jchristi@austincc.edu. A copy of the practice exam will be posted under the course  on Blackboard. It will not be part of the course grade. It is to give the student the type of multiple choice questions on future exams and to determine that the student has started the course. If you don’t complete the practice exam by the due date the instructor is required by his department to drop you from the course because this indicates you have not started the course. No exceptions.

 Course Description: The relationships of law and business as they relate to commercial transactions. The student must complete a practice exam by the first week of the semester or they will be dropped from the course. This exams shows the student has started the course.

 Required Text:  Anderson’s Business Law and the Legal Enviroment- Comprehensive Volumne  23rd ed , Twomey & Jennings{ISBN 978-1337061292} Be aware that there are several  used 23rd  ed Anderson’s Business Law texts used in Busi 2301 courses. These text have only 40 chapters.   Those texts do not have  all the chapters  required to be covered in this course  The comprehensive volume has  51 chapters. It is essential that the edition you purchase has 51 chapters.   Also note there is a newer 24th edition of this book. Do not purchase the 24th edition. The department has decided to save the student’s money by using the older 23rd edition of the text. 

 Instructional Methodology:This course will be taught via the textbook and Blackboard, Students will be expected to have absorbed the assigned material prior to taking each exam. The instructor encourages students to contact  the instructor when assigned material is unclear to the student and explanation is needed.

 Course Rationale: The  course is designed to provide the student with in-depth information concerning our system of law and its impact upon the day-to-day operations of businesses and business related transactions.

Student Learning Outcomes:  Course-Level Student Learning Outcomes: The Student will display a comprehensive understanding of: the origins and structure of the American legal system; the requirements and structure of an enforceable contract; available defenses to the enforcement of a contract; discharge of contracts and remedies for breach of contract; third party rights in contracts; the differences between common law contracts and contracts for the sale of goods; commercial transactions, the impact of law upon accountant's liability; intellectual property; negotiable instruments; title and risk of loss; insurance; and the impact and structure of administrative agencies. Also included in the course material will be bankruptcy law,  agency, creditor’s rights, and employment  law, debtor-creditor relations, types of business organizations including partnership, corporation and limited liability companies and real and person property

 Course Evaluation System:  Grades will be based on the following areas of performance. Students are required to take four exams. Each exam will be all multiple choice. Each exam will cover chapters assigned and worth 20% each. An exam  review sheet will be sent to students one  week before the exam. 

Exam One Chapters 1,2,4,5,6,9,11,12,13 14                                                      (20%)

Exam Two Chapters 15,16,17,18,19,  21,22,23,24                                             (20%)

Exam Three Chapters27,28,29,30.31,32.33.34,35,36,37                                    (20%)

Exam Four  Chapters 38,39,40,41, 42,43,44,45,46,47,48                                  (20%) 

End of Chapter  Textbook Assignment                                                              (10%)

 Legal Briefs                                                                                                        (10%)

                                                                                                                            100%

The Exams must be taken without any notes, books, or any other outside assistance such as electronic devices or internet searches. Students will receive  the online exam at 6 PM on Thursday of the dates. This is a monitored exam. Once the student receives the exam by email the student will connect to this google meets link with your camera on,  Join with Google Meet meet.google.com/pck-tigw-fkj  Note this link is different from the google meets link mentioned above for office hour.

In preparation for exams contact your instructor if you have read and reread a subject and need assistance with that particular area. Check your ACC gmail account at least daily for updates on the course  and review sheets for upcoming exams. 

The instructor  will monitor the exams from 6-9 PM but most students complete the  exams  in  one and half hours. If there is a personal  schedule or class conflict with the exam date  notify the instructor as soon as possible  after you start the course so an alternate exam date can be  determined..

 The instructor will work with students if they have exam dates conflict but you need to contact the instructor before  the exam date. In fairness to all students points will be taken off an exam if the contact with the instructor  about a missed exam is made after the exam date above. For each exam if you are taking the alternate exam  date you must make a request to the instructor and get a confirmation from the instructor that he has put you on the alternative exam date. Don’t assume since you took one exam on the alternate date the instructor  will  put you on every alternate exam date.

A different google meets link will be used for the alternate exam dates. Note the following google meets link for the alternate exam date is different from the google meets link for office hour and the google meets link for the regular exam date. Don’t confuse them For alternate date of exam use Join with Google Meetmeet.google.com/wkw-ttbm-tsq Join by phone ‪(US) +1 530-564-6845 PIN: ‪425 436 375#

End of Chapter Textbook  Homework  Assignments.  Homework questions are found at the end of the associated chapters.  Due Date for homework  is the date of the Exam  that covers those chapters. You wont be assigned a grade on the homework but will be given 100  points for turning in  the homework on time. Do not turn in your homework until you turn in your exam answer sheet

Two written legal briefs will be required to be  prepared by each student and turned in later in the semester. Assignments of what legal briefs the student is required to prepare will be provided on Blackboard. . Instructions on how to do the legal brief, how they will be prepared , a sample legal brief  and when they will be due will be presented  in instructions provided on Blackboard.   In this class, you may use Chat GPT to brainstorm ideas and revised drafts to only your legal briefs, but final submission of the two legal briefs must be your original writing.    

GRADES:

Grades will be earned on the following scale:

90‑100 A

80‑89  B

70‑79  C

60‑69  D

0-60   F

Business Law Homework Assignments

Homework is due on the day of the exam for the chapters covered by the exam.    The homework  chapters  due are those chapters  associated with the chapters  tested on. They are to be sent to the instructor at the email of the instructor above.. These questions are at the back of the chapter indicated

Chapter `1– None

Chapter 2- Questions 3, 4 and 5

Chapter 4 Questions 1,3, and 4

Chapter 5 Questions 2, 3, and  4

Chapter 6 Questions 4, 5,  and 6

Chapter 9 Questions  2 and 4

Chapter 11 Questions  2 and 4

Chapter 12 Questions 4,5, and 7

Chapter 13 Questions 1, 3, and 4

Chapter 14 Questions 2, 3, and 4

Chapter 15 – Question 2, 3, and 8

Chapter 16 Questions  02 and 4

Chapter 17  Questions 3 amd 5

Chapter 18 Questions 2, 3, 7,and 9

Chapter 19 Questions 3, 4, and 5

Chapter 21 Questions 5, 6, and 7

Chapter 22 Questions 3, 4, 5 and 8

Chapter 23 Questions 3, 5, and 6

Chapter 24 Questions 1, 2, and 4

Chapter 27 Questions 2 and 3

Chapter 28 Questions 2, 3, and 8

Chapter 29 Questions 1, 2, and 5

Chapter 30 Questions 2, 3, and 9

Chapter 31 Questions 1, 3, and 4

Chapter 32 Questions 1, 2, and 4

Chapter 33 Questions 1, and 2

Chapter 34 Questions 1, 2, and 5

Chapter 35 Questions 1, 3, and 4

Chapter 36 Questions 1, 4, and 7

Chapter 37 Questions 3, 4, and 5

Chapter 38 Questions 1, 2, and 4

Chapter 39 Questions 2, 4, and 5

Chapter 40 Questions 1, 2, and 4

Chapter 41 Questions 1 and 3

Chapter 42 Questions 3 and 4

Chapter 43 Questions 6 and 8

Chapter 44 Questions 1 and 2

Chapter 45 Questions 3 and 4

Chapter 46 Questions 1 and 10

Chapter 47 Questions 1, 3, and 4

Chapter 48 Questions 1, 3, and 5

  The Business Law Commercial Distance Learning course is offered for those students with the

maturity and self-discipline to maintain their own study schedule and to take the exams at the times required. Students with deficiencies in basic reading and writing skills should not enroll in this course. Nor, should the course be taken by students who rely on class discussion and questions to explain lectures and reading assignments.

The course is not self-paced, since exams must be taken no later than certain dates indicated on the syllabus; however, it is possible to complete the course earlier than the end of the semester. The course and its college credit are equivalent to those offered on campus. Internet and ACC g-mail access is required.

Important. An initial practice exam needs to be completed and return via email  to the instructor by the second week of class. Email exam : jchristi@austincc.edu. A copy of the practice exam will be posted under the course  on Blackboard. It will not be part of the course grade. It is to give the student the type of multiple choice questions on future exams and to determine that the student has started the course. If you don’t complete the practice exam by the due date the instructor is required by his department to drop you from the course because this indicates you have not started the course. No exceptions.

 Required Text:  Anderson’s Business Law and the Legal Enviroment- Comprehensive Volumne  23rd ed , Twomey & Jennings{ISBN 978-1337061292} Be aware that there are several  used 23rd  ed Anderson’s Business Law texts used in Busi 2301 courses. These text have only 40 chapters.   Those texts do not have  all the chapters  required to be covered in this course  The comprehensive volume has  51 chapters. It is essential that the edition you purchase has 51 chapters.   Also note there is a newer 24th edition of this book. Do not purchase the 24th edition. The department has decided to save the student’s money by using the older 23rd edition of the text. 

The Student will display a comprehensive understanding of: the origins and structure of the American legal system; the requirements and structure of an enforceable contract; available defenses to the enforcement of a contract; discharge of contracts and remedies for breach of contract; third party rights in contracts; the differences between common law contracts and contracts for the sale of goods; commercial transactions, the impact of law upon accountant's liability; intellectual property; negotiable instruments; title and risk of loss; insurance; and the impact and structure of administrative agencies. Also included in the course material will be bankruptcy law,  agency, creditor’s rights, and employment  law, debtor-creditor relations, types of business organizations including partnership, corporation and limited liability companies and real and person property

 Student Learning Outcomes:  Course-Level Student Learning Outcomes: The Student will display a comprehensive understanding of: the origins and structure of the American legal system; the requirements and structure of an enforceable contract; available defenses to the enforcement of a contract; discharge of contracts and remedies for breach of contract; third party rights in contracts; the differences between common law contracts and contracts for the sale of goods; commercial transactions, the impact of law upon accountant's liability; intellectual property; negotiable instruments; title and risk of loss; insurance; and the impact and structure of administrative agencies. Also included in the course material will be bankruptcy law,  agency, creditor’s rights, and employment  law, debtor-creditor relations, types of business organizations including partnership, corporation and limited liability companies and real and person property