Solano Community College
School of Career Technical Education & Business
Spring Semester 2013
Instructor: Kevin Anderson, J.D.
Office: Building 500, Room 515
Main Campus office hours: MWF 8:30 – 9:00 AM; 12:00 – 1:00 PM
Vacaville Center office hours: TUTH 8:30 – 9:00; TU 12:00 – 1:00; TH 5:00 -6:00
Website: http://www.cengagebrain.com/shop/isbn/9780324786156
E-Mail: kevin.anderson@solano.edu
1. COURSE DESCRIPTION
A comprehensive introduction to the study of law, with specific emphasis on the legal environment of business. Includes the legal process, legal institutions, contracts, agency, torts, employment, consumer protection, government regulation and alternative dispute resolution (ADR), along with ethical concerns and current public policy issues and a Bill of Rights introduction.
2. COURSE INFORMATION
This is a University of California (UC) and California State University (CSU) transfer course, however, I will not lower the standard that has been established by the Business Division. To receive an A in this course UC and CSU academic ability is expected from you.
3. COURSE GOALS
To introduce you to the nature of law, legal institutions, legal reasoning, and legal ethics. It is understood and expected that you have no experience in law studies.
To teach you specific and useful information about Law in the Business Environment, including contracts, agency, torts, sales, debtor/creditor rights, partnerships, corporations, property, employment law, criminal procedure, consumer law, computer law, and First and Fourteenth
Amendment Constitutional issues.
To teach you strategies to enable you to avoid and/or mitigate various business law problems in both your personal and professional life, and to convince you to consider various alternatives to traditional methods of resolving legal disputes.

Solano Community College
School of Career Technical Education & Business
Spring Semester 2013
To enable you to analyze and understand the legal questions, and legal reasoning involved in past and present significant (and often controversial), legal issues and decisions, in both California and the United States.
4. TEXTBOOK: Business Law Today, The Essentials 9th Edition by Miller & Jentz,
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2011
Thompson West
5. COURSE POLICIES
Student Conduct : To create a comfortable learning environment for all students, I expect all students enrolled in this class to attend the entire class promptly and consistently. I also expect you to treat other students and the instructor with respect, follow the instructor’s directions for appropriate classroom discussions and participation. I also expect students to avoid disrupting the class in any way.
Assignments: All assignments are due at the end of class at the beginning of the week. Late assignments may be assessed a penalty.
Academic Dishonesty: Cheating is a serious offense and may be punished by failure on an exam, quiz or project; failure in the course and/or expulsion from the college. For more information refer to the Solano Community College Catalog page 36, or the Solano Community College
Student handbook.
Need for Assistance: If you have a condition such as a physical or learning disability, which will make it difficult for you to carry out the work or will require accommodations, please notify me as soon as possible. You may also contact Disability Services Program (DSP).
6. EVALUATION PROCEDURES, GRADING POLICY AND SCALE
5% Class Participation
30% Midterm Exam
30% Homework
35% Final Exam
7. STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES
Describe and recognize legal aspects concerning business and demonstrate the ability to make informed and reasonable legal analyses of current public policy issues.