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A study of the principles of business law with particular emphasis on legal reasoning. Topics covered in the course include contracts, commercial law, business organization, and agency.

This class will introduce you to the spirit and mindset of being an entrepreneur. It will guide you from the conceptualization of a business idea and through the process of evaluating the performance and success of a company. This course covers the basics for business owners of different scope/size, at multiple stages, and includes concepts such as business formulation, marketing and sales, customer-centric mindsets, and expanding your team. By leveraging different course materials, experiences, case studies, simulations and guest speakers, the theories and tools behind entrepreneurship will come to life and allow you to assess your fit and interest to become a successful entrepreneur.

This course offers insights into the marketing of products, services, and ideas. Key marketing strategies that are essential for all businesses including small businesses, corporations, and nonprofit organizations are covered. The course deals with the power of marketing and the use of social media, email marketing and digital advertising. This course emphasizes learning through doing; class sessions are highly engaged and revolve around team-based experiences designed to reinforce important marketing topics. You will be working with a company to help them with marketing strategies.

This course reflects the growing recognition that employees are an organization's most important resource and, as a consequence, management of those resources is an increasingly critical function. Specific responsibilities in that regard include: recruitment and selection, testing and assessment, training and development, affirmative action, compensation and benefits, discipline and discharge. In addition, the course explores the ever-changing legal and regulatory elements that influence human resource activities and decisions.