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BLAW 251 - Business Law |
Business Law is an introductory course exploring the nature of laws, its sources, and its relation to society, government and business. The course focuses on the traditional business law topics - property, contracts, torts, agency, business organizations and government regulation.
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Pharmacy, Pittsburgh Council on HE, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Business Department |
BLAW 351 - Fundamentals of Logic |
"Logic deals with argumentation. It aims to provide the means for evaluating arguments so that we make effective ones ourselves in thought, speaking, and writing, and we can analyze the arguments of others. This course includes an analysis of valid reasoning, logical fallacies, types of definitions, arguments in ordinary discourse, and the formal logic of inferences. Study of logic should benefit our critical thinking and writing. Logic is central in the study and practice of law, thus is an excellent decision-making foundation for students interested in legal studies and possible pursuing a career in the legal profession. And, logic is fascinating in its own right.
In addition, this course offers a LSAT tutorial series to prepare students to take the law school admissions examination. These tutorials test the students’ ability to determine main points of arguments, to apply logic to abstract concepts, to find relevant information within a text and to analyze and evaluate arguments.
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Pharmacy, Pittsburgh Council on HE, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Business Department |
BLAW 353W - Contracts |
The fundamental concepts of the law of contracts are examined to provide the student with an understanding of the common law system regarding formation, performance, third party rights, ethics, discharge and remedies.
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Pharmacy, Pittsburgh Council on HE, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Business Department Course Attributes: University Core Writing Intens |
BLAW 354 - Commercial Transactions |
Study of the provisions of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) with reference to the nature and legality of the sale of goods, the formality of sale contracts, transfer of title of goods, warranties, nature and kinds of commercial paper, requisites and meaning of negotiability, methods of transfer and secured transactions.
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Pharmacy, Pittsburgh Council on HE, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Business Department |
BLAW 355 - Law of Business Organization |
This is a course which focuses on various laws pertaining to the creation and termination of corporations, franchises, partnerships, agency and other business entities.
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Pharmacy, Pittsburgh Council on HE, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Business Department |
BLAW 355W - Law of Business Org |
This is a course which focuses on various laws pertaining to the creation and termination of corporations, franchises, partnerships, agency and other business entities.
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Pharmacy, Pittsburgh Council on HE, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Business Department Course Attributes: University Core Writing Intens |
BLAW 357 - Real Estate Law |
The principles of real property law and their application to the transfer of property rights. Topics include real estate applications of contract and agency law, and the legal relationships among buyers and sellers, landlords and tenants and borrowers and lenders.
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Pharmacy, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Business Department |
BLAW 454 - Law Internl Commercial Transac |
This course provides the student with an overall perspective of the basic legal problems involved in doing business with and in other countries. Topics covered include an introduction to foreign legal systems; study of various forms of business organization; legal problems involved in letters of credit, insurance, risk of loss, antitrust aspects of the sale of goods; forms of dispute settlement, and the problems of enforcing judgments in and against foreign countries.
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Pharmacy, Pittsburgh Council on HE, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Business Department |
BLAW 456 - Legal Aspects of Human Resourc |
Legal Aspects of Human Resources is a survey course of state and federal laws that influence the legal environment of personnel and human resource management.
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Pharmacy, Pittsburgh Council on HE, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Business Department |