CO5119 - Introduction to Business Law
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2006 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 3 |
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<b>Course or course code of students permitted to enrol:</b> Students enrolled in any postgraduate certificates, diplomas or degrees offered by the University are permitted to enrol in this subject. <b>Course or course code of students not permitted to enrol:</b> Students enrolled in any undergraduate qualifications offered by the University are not permitted to enrol in this subject.
This subject addresses the legal foundations of business. Focus will be on the nature, role and sources of law; the major legal systems of the world; the common law system; the laws regulating agreements, obligations and property; industrial and intellectual property; restrictive trade practices and fair trading; financial instruments and securities; technology transfers including licensing and franchising; legal process and alternative dispute resolution.
Learning Outcomes
- To develop an understanding of the different regimes which are relevant to making agreements in an international context, the problems which can arise and how to deal with them;
- To develop the ability to put international trade contracts in their proper framework, in terms of the contracts and their enforcement and enforceability, and in the wider context of how businesses function in the international commercial field.
Graduate Qualities
- The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
- The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments, and to reason and deploy evidence clearly and logically;
- The ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences.
| Prerequisites: | As contained in the Master of Professional Accounting new course proposal form |
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| Census Date 24-Mar-2006 | |
| Face to face teaching 18-Feb-2006 to 05-Mar-2006 | |
| Coord/Lect: | Empro Stephen Graw. |
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| Census Date 07-Jul-2006 | |
| Face to face teaching 10-Jun-2006 to 02-Jul-2006 | |
| Coord/Lect: | Empro Stephen Graw. |
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| Census Date 08-Sep-2006 | |
| Coordinator: | Empro Stephen Graw |
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