CO5119 - Business Law
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2012 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 3 |
| Administered by: | School of Law Office |
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
- understand national and international legal and regulatory systems within which business operates;
- understand key legal provisions that impact on business, its structure(s), and method(s) of operation;
- compare and contrast the competing needs and interests of business entities, their owners, consumers, creditors and society as a whole and critique the ability of the current legal framework to balance and satisfy those competing needs and interests.
Graduate Qualities
- The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
- The ability to define and to solve problems in at least one discipline area;
- 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 find and access information using appropriate media and technologies;
- The ability to evaluate that information;
- The acquisition of coherent and disciplined sets of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics from at least one discipline area;
- The ability to reflect on and evaluate learning, and to learn independently in a self directed manner;
- The ability to speak and write clearly, coherently and creatively;
- The ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences;
- The ability to lead, manage and contribute effectively to teams.
| Inadmissible Subject Combinations: | LB5004 CO5108 |
Availabilities | |
| Townsville, Internal, Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 22-Mar-2012 | |
| Coordinator: | Professor Stephen Graw |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); assignments (50%). |
| Special Assessment Requirements: | Students must obtain a final mark of at least 50% to pass the subject, and must obtain at least an average of 50% over all invigilated components to pass the subject. |
| Cairns, Internal, Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 22-Mar-2012 | |
| Coordinator: | Professor Stephen Graw |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); assignments (50%). |
| Special Assessment Requirements: | Students must obtain a final mark of at least 50% to pass the subject, and must obtain at least an average of 50% over all invigilated components to pass the subject. |
| JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 51 | |
| Census Date 22-Mar-2012 | |
| Coordinator: | Professor Stephen Graw |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); assignments (50%). |
| Special Assessment Requirements: | Students must obtain a final mark of at least 50% to pass the subject, and must obtain at least an average of 50% over all invigilated components to pass the subject. |
| JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 52 | |
| Census Date 09-Aug-2012 | |
| Coordinator: | Professor Stephen Graw |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); assignments (50%). |
| Special Assessment Requirements: | Students must obtain a final mark of at least 50% to pass the subject, and must obtain at least an average of 50% over all invigilated components to pass the subject. |
| JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 53 | |
| Census Date 15-Nov-2012 | |
| Coordinator: | Professor Stephen Graw |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); assignments (50%). |
| Special Assessment Requirements: | Students must obtain a final mark of at least 50% to pass the subject, and must obtain at least an average of 50% over all invigilated components to pass the subject. |
| JCU Brisbane, Internal, Study Period 21 | |
| Census Date 12-Apr-2012 | |
| Coordinator: | Professor Stephen Graw |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); assignments (50%). |
| Special Assessment Requirements: | Students must obtain a final mark of at least 50% to pass the subject, and must obtain at least an average of 50% over all invigilated components to pass the subject. |
| JCU Brisbane, Internal, Study Period 22 | |
| Census Date 09-Aug-2012 | |
| Coordinator: | Professor Stephen Graw |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); assignments (50%). |
| Special Assessment Requirements: | Students must obtain a final mark of at least 50% to pass the subject, and must obtain at least an average of 50% over all invigilated components to pass the subject. |
| JCU Brisbane, Internal, Study Period 23 | |
| Census Date 06-Dec-2012 | |
| Coordinator: | Professor Stephen Graw |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); assignments (50%). |
| Special Assessment Requirements: | Students must obtain a final mark of at least 50% to pass the subject, and must obtain at least an average of 50% over all invigilated components to pass the subject. |
Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.