Fresno State's "legal environment" course is 4 units for the semester.
We don't have an undergraduate business ethics course, but the MBA
course has been taught by JDs, tho I understand that a management PhD
taught a section in one of the MBA programs last semester (we have at
least 2 MBA programs, maybe 3). We incorporate some business ethics into
the 4-unit undergraduate course.

The support for your position might include an analysis of your business
curriculum for legal aspects that should be covered. If your dean or
faculty want to cut back from 3 units to 2, you could present your list
of legal aspects to all departments and ask each which should be
deleted.  Yours, JDR.

Mike Hogg wrote:

>
> Does anyone have any information on whether schools that are on the
> semester system teach an undergraduate Legal Environment course as a 3
> or 2 credit course? It has been a 3 credit course here and I think it
> should remain as a three credit course, but some of the other areas want
> to reduce it to two credits.  Is there any support for my position of
> three credits
>
> Additionally, for schools that teach an undergraduate business ethics
> course do you typically use JD's or Ph.D.'s to teach the class?
>
> Michael Hogg
> Professor of Legal Studies in Business
> A.B. Freeman School of Business
> Tulane University

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Yours,

David Reitzel
Verna Mae and Wayne A. Brooks Professor of Business Law
Sid Craig School of Business
California State University, Fresno