Business Legal Studies Minor

Effective beginning Miami entry First Semester 1994-1995
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Minor in Business Legal Studies

This minor allows the business and non-business major to develop a greater sensitivity to the issues of business liability, governmental regulation of business, public policy, and the evolution of law, especially in its interfacing with commercial activities.

Program Requirements

  1. Take 21 hours total
  2. Take BLS 342 and BLS 442: Legal Environment of Business, Business Associations & Communal Law (6 hours)
  3. Take at least 2 of the following: (6 hrs. min.; 15 hrs. max.)
    • ACC 443 or 343: Federal Income Tax Accounting
    • BLS 443: Property Law
    • BLS 462: Estates, Wills, & Trusts
    • BLS 464/483: International Business Law/Comparative International Law
    • BLS 465 **: Ethics, Law, & Business
    • ECO 325: Economic Analysis of Law
    • ECO 385: Government and Business
    • MGT 402: Employment Law
  4. Take the remaining hours from the following:
    • ECO 331: Public Sector Economics
    • ECO 434: Environmental Economics
    • ECO 451: Economic History
    • ECO 462: Economics of Compensation
    • HST 362: The Era of the American Revolution
    • HST 363: The Early American Republic, 1783-1815
    • HST 368: United States from Progressive Era to Great Depression
    • HST 369: United States in the Modern Era
    • HST 382: Women in American History
    • HST 387: U. S. Constitutional Development to 1865
    • HST 388: U. S. Constitutional Development Since 1865
    • HST 397: American Environmental History
    • IES 431: Principles and Applications of Environmental Science
    • IES 450: Environmental Law
    • MGT 303: Human Resource Management
    • MGT 405: Labor Relations and Conflict Management
    • MKT 325: Consumer Behavior
    • PHL 331: Political Philosophy
    • PHL 335: Philosophy of Law
    • POL 302: Classical Political Philosophy
    • POL 303: Modern Political Philosophy
    • POL 346: Global Gender Politics
    • POL 352: Constitutional Law and Politics
    • POL 353: Constitutional Rights and Liberties
    • POL 363: Administrative Law
    • POL 382: International Law
    • SOC 412: Sociology of Law

**This course satisfies the Miami Plan Capstone Experience Course.

Additional Information

A student will fulfill the BLS 1 Thematic Sequence, Law and Commerce, by successfully completing BLS 342, BLS 442, and one of ECO 385, BLS 443, BLS 462, BLS 464/483 or MGT 402.

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