BUS 242 is the second of two semester telecourses designed to familiarize the student with the role of law in business.  This course explains the legal aspects of property, credit, negotiable instruments, and business organizations.

Prerequisites/Expectations/Recommended Knowledge and Skills:
Completion of BUS 241 is a prerequisite.

If you successfully complete this course, you will be able to:

• Recognize differences in real and personal property.
• Be familiar with the legal requirements of business organizations (partnerships, corporations).
• Discern the technicalities of negotiable instruments.
• Understand credit transactions.

The required textbook and related materials for this course are:

• Mallor, et. al. Business Law: The Ethical, Global and E-Commerce Environment.
  13th Edition, McGraw-Hill/Irwin.
• Hiscox, Spandel, and Lewis. Business and the Law, Telecourse Study Guide. 6th
  Edition, 2004. (May be listed as 8th edition on some textbook Web sites.)
• Course Guide for BUS 242 (includes assignments, information on exams and
  other course details). The Course Guide is available for download and printing from the course web site.

For information on how to order your textbooks, go to http://eli.nvcc.edu/books/ 

  Your course grade will be determined by the assignments and exams, according to the following points:

NOTE: NOTE:  For BUS 242, you must pass at least two exams in order to pass this course, regardless of how well you do on the other assignments.  Please keep a personal record of all your grades so that you can compute your own course grade.

For Testing Center locations, hours of operation and policies, click here.

For information on taking exams outside of the metropolitan area, click here.

To contact the instructor:

E-mails: Kenneth Brown: kebrown@nvcc.edu
Telephone: (703) 878-5712

1. Use your web browser to connect to http://www.nvcc.edu/bbstart. Follow the directions to determine your email, Blackboard and VIVA account user names and passwords.
2. Access your email account and make sure you know how to use it; you will be required to use this account for all course-related email.
3. Log on to Blackboard at http://learn.vccs.edu.
4. Click on this course under "My Courses." Review the entire course to make sure you understand what will be required of you. Then start completing the assignments.

Please note that account generation takes approximately one week from the time of your paid registration. If you cannot log on after one week, contact the IT Help Desk. If you can log on to Blackboard, but your course isn't listed, please contact ELI or your instructor.