At Richard Stockton College of NJ, all of our courses are 4-credit. We have a required LEgal Environment course in our undergrad business major, 4-credits, taught by three full-time tenured faculty (me and two others)--usually several sections a semester; when we need more, we hired adjuncts. We also offer a 4-credit Business Law Course which we recommend for Accounting Majors only, as better prerequisite to our "advanced" Business Law Courses (two of them, each two-credits)--we offer them less frequently.

At MBA level, there are no required PLAW courses, although we have been trying to offer an elective (3 credit, as our grad courses are all 3-credit)--unfortunately, so far we've not had sufficient enrollment for course to go.



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        From: Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB) Talk on behalf of David Reitzel
        Sent: Thu 9/23/2004 10:48 PM
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        Subject: Re: Legal Environment of Business



        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