Business Law

Grades: 11 - 12
Credit: one half
Course Number: 613132

Business Law provides students with the basic knowledge to become a better informed citizen, employee, and consumer. The course offers a student the opportunities to study the nature and function of our legal system, courts and procedures. Topics include contracts, sales agreements, torts, constitutional law, criminal law, and family law. Students focus on consumer rights and responsibilities, examine legal aspects of employment, research careers in law, and discuss the impact of laws on travelers and those living abroad. Enriched with students projects, debates, mock trials, field trips, guest speakers, an businesses and consumers. This Business class provides life skills to succeed in any career in the future.
Students successfully completing this course may be eligible to earn a Career and Technical Education Diploma Seal.