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BUSINESS
LAW
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BUSL
357 - Law
of Commercial Transactions
Four Quarter Hours
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| PREREQUISITES: Business Law 255 or permission. |
| COURSE OVERVIEW: This course deals with the legal aspects of commercial paper transactions (checks, notes, drafts, and certificates of deposit), secured transactions, suretyship, bankruptcy, insurance, wills and trusts, and general debtor-creditor relations. |
| METHODS OF COURSE INSTRUCTION: All material for this course is print-based. Instructor and students communicate and exchange materials through postal mail. If students have access to e-mail, they may use this method to send lesson assignments and receive the instructor's feedback. Students may use any e-mail provider and any standard e-mail software. E-mail accounts are not provided for Independent and Distance Learning Programs by Ohio University. |
TEXTBOOKS
AND SUPPLIES:
ISBN
0324204868 Mann, Richard A., et al., Smith and Roberson's
Business Law, 13th ed., Thomson/West Publishing Co., 2006
...available
from EdMap's distance-learning online
bookstore.
| STUDENTS
ARE STRONGLY ADVISED NOT TO BUY TEXTBOOKS UNTIL
REGISTERED IN COURSES AS REQUIRED EDITIONS CAN CHANGE
WITHOUT NOTICE. |
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LESSONS AND WRITING
ASSIGNMENTS: The
course has twelve lessons, including two supervised examinations.
A writing assignment is provided for each lesson. Questions
on the writing assignments require students to understand the
textbook reading assignments and to be able to apply the principles
to actual business problems. Most assignments also require students
to brief one or more cases. Instructions are given for briefing
the cases. In all questions, students are expected to be able
to cite the relevant legal principles to defend their answers.
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EXAMINATIONS:
There
are two supervised examinations. Each examination will consist
of both objective and essay questions. In addition, there is
a nongraded self-check test included in the study guide before
the midcourse examination which gives students information about
the type of questions that will be asked and the expected scope
If you reside near an Ohio University campus, you must take your examination at the nearest campus. Others can arrange to have their examinations proctored at another accredited college or university or, if it is more convenient, at an accredited local high school. Ohio University reserves the right to reject a proposed examination supervisor. Detailed information about examination procedures will be included with your enrollment material. Examinations may not be taken online nor by e-mail. |
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GRADING
CRITERIA: Final
grades will be determined by counting the midcourse examination
40 percent, the final examination 40 percent, and the writing
assignments 20 percent. Writing assignments will receive grades
of S+, S, S-, or U. Grades will be assigned according to the
following scale:
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93
- 100 %
90 - 92 %
87 - 89 %
83 - 86 %
80 - 82 %
77 - 79 %
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=
A
= A-
= B+
= B
= B-
= C+ |
73
- 76 %
70 - 72 %
67 - 69 %
63 - 66 %
60 - 62 %
Below 60 %
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=
C
= C-
= D+
= D
= D-
= F |
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ENROLLMENT INFORMATION: Active Terms: Not term-based; self-paced study. Eight months to finish. Registration Dates: Enroll at any time.
Call
Independent
and Distance Learning Programs at 1-800-444-2910
if you have questions about this course, the enrollment
process, or Ohio University degree opportunities.
Ohio
Learning Networkers: Always check with your home campus
advisor to make certain that a course from another school
will fulfill your degree requirements.
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