5934 (v.4) Legal Environment 560

Area:

Graduate School of Business

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

3.0

** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **

Lecture:

1 x 3 Hours Weekly

Syllabus:

This unit focuses on introducing students without a legal studies background to the basic legal concepts and areas of law they are likely to confront as managers. The unit aims to provide an analytical framework for addressing these legal issues and as amethod of exploration and application of the legal concepts, will emphasise legal problem solving through applying prior decisions (precedent cases) in a number of key areas of business law.

** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **

Field of Education:

090900 Law (Narrow Grouping)

Funding Cluster:

01 - Law

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Fully Online
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information

Result Type:

Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2006	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y		Y		Y
2006	Bentley Campus	Semester 2	Y		Y	Y	Y
2006	Perth City Campus	Trimester 1			Y		Y
2006	Perth City Campus	Trimester 2	Y

Area External	refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central External	refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
Partially Online Internal	refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
Fully Online	refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External