TROY UNIVERSITY
MASTER SYLLABUS
SORRELL COLLEGE OF BUSINESS
LAW 3323
Legal and Ethical Aspects of Competition for Entrepreneurs
Prerequisites:
Pre-Business Core, MGT 4475
Description:
This course is designed to go beyond LAW 2221 (Legal Environment of Business) and to
provide an opportunity to explore in-depth the types of legal and ethical issues that
entrepreneurs, small business owners, and family business owners encounter in the worlds of
domestic and international aspects of competition.
Student Learning Objectives:
Upon the completion of this course, the student should be able to:
1. Identify, analyze, and apply the elements of, and defenses to, business torts and crimes,
and other legal dimensions of competition, in various domestic and international
competitive environments.
2. Identify and apply methods of ethical thinking and decision-making to business issues and
organizational cultures.
3. Identify the unique legal, ethical, and social issues faced by start-up, small, and familyowned businesses, to include domestic and international corporate social responsibility
and sustainability concerns.
4. Develop strategies and processes to create and implement codes of conduct and effective
domestic and international compliance and ethics programs in small businesses.
Master Syllabi are developed by the senior faculty in each business discipline. This Master Syllabus must be used as the basis for developing the
instructor syllabus for this course, which must also comply with the content specifications outlined in the Troy University Faculty Handbook.
The objectives included on this Master Syllabus must be included among the objectives on the instructor’s syllabus, which may expand upon the
same as the instructor sees fit. The statement of purpose seeks to position the course properly within the curriculum and should be consulted by
faculty as a source of advisement guidance. Specific choice of text and other details are further subject to Program Coordinator guidance.
1 August 2005
Master Syllabus: LAW 3323
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Purpose of the Course:
Essential to the academic concentration in Entrepreneurship is an understanding of the legal and
ethical dimensions of the domestic and international worlds of competition which entrepreneurial
businesses will enter. Troy’s Entrepreneurship graduates will be important participants in
shaping business behavior in the domestic and international business sectors. This course is,
therefore, designed to give the business student concentrating in Entrepreneurship a focused and
well-rounded knowledge of the domestic and international legal and ethical issues faced by
entrepreneurial and family owned businesses.
Approved Texts:
There will be no assigned text in this course. The topics will be addressed by studying court
decisions, law reviews, other secondary authorities assigned and found on Westlaw, and
additional assigned readings as relevant issues develop and are encountered during the course.
Because of the way that legal issues and rules change on a continuing basis, the course is
designed to accommodate the flexibility needed in any law-related course.
Specific books for suggested reading are:
ROBERT N. BELLAH, et al., HABITS OF THE HEART: INDIVIDUALISM AND
COMMITMENT IN AMERICAN LIFE (1986 ed.).
Troy University Faculty Handbook (2010): Section 3.9.2.8 [extract] — essential elements of the syllabus (somewhat modified for space):
1. Course title
2. Course number +
section
3. Term
4. Instructor
5. Prerequisites
6. Office hours
7. Class days, times
8. Classroom
location
9. Office location +
e-mail address
10. Office telephone
11. Course
description,
objectives
12. Text(s)
13. Other materials
14. Grading methods, 16. General supports
criterion weights,
(computer works,
make-up policy,
writing center)
mid-term grade
17. Daily assignments,
reports
holidays, add/drop
15. Procedure, course
& open dates, dead
requirements
day, final exam
18. ADA statement
19. Electronic device
statement
20. Additional
services,
statements
21. Absence policy
22. Incomplete-work
policy
23. Cheating policy
24. Specialization
requirements
(certification,
licensure, teacher
competencies)