The letter mailed along with the syllabus below had an error for the first night's readings. The syllabus is correct. Read torts (chapters 6 & 7) and contracts (chapters 10 & 11) for the first night of class.

Michael J. O'Hara Office Hours: by appointment,

CBA 502 before class, Tuesday and Thursday 5:30 - 6:00 PM

554-2823 (with voice mail) and after class, Tuesday and Thursday 9:30 - 10:00 PM

mohara@unomaha.edu fax 554-2680

http://unicron.unomaha.edu then to "Law & Society"; then "Faculty"; then "O'Hara"

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

3 credit hours. "Focus upon law and ethics. Business law, legal processes, and regulations will be the subject matter focus. Business ethics will be a recurring focus of analysis. Analysis of the social environment will include public policy. Both subject matter and analysis will be integrated to build the student's critical thinking skills. Prereq.: MBA Foundation courses."

GRADED EVENTS:

A course letter grade of "A" is earned with a total course percentage of 90.0% or more; a "B+" is earned with 85.0% or more; a "B" is earned with 80.0% or more; etc.

45% DAILY ASSIGNMENTS

20% SOLO MIDTERM EXAM

solo effort exam of 50 true-false questions

10% PAPER

Live performance of and legal analysis of A Midsummer Night's Dream.

25% COMPREHENSIVE FINAL EXAMS

TEXTS:

1. Cheeseman, Henry R. The Legal and Regulatory Environment: Contemporary Perspectives in Business. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1997.

2. Fisher, Roger, Ury, William, and Patton, Bruce. Getting to YES: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In. 2nd edition. New York: Penguin Books, 1991.

3. OPTIONAL: Shakespeare, William, A Midsummer Night's Dream.

 

DAILY ASSIGNMENTS

There are three types of DAILY ASSIGNMENTS and there is
NO MAKE - UP for any of the DAILY ASSIGNMENTS. However, if you will need to miss a class you may fax (554-2680) or email (mohara@unomaha.edu) your negotiation preparation or written quiz assignment to me prior to the start of class. It will not be an adequate excuse that my fax machine was busy with other student's faxes that started transmission prior to your attempted transmission.

There are three types of daily assignments: WRITTEN QUIZZES, NEGOTIATION PREPARATIONS, and ORAL QUIZZES.

WRITTEN QUIZZES For a total of 10% of the course grade, there are five unannounced quizzes on different class nights over the course of the semester. Each WRITTEN QUIZ will be worth 2% of the course grade. WRITTEN QUIZZES
will be administered at the very beginning of the class. Students who arrive late will not be given extra time. Each quiz will have ten true-false questions. Each quiz question will be on the text readings assigned for that night's class. Check my web page for examples of prior written quizzes.

NEGOTIATION PREPARATIONS For a total of 15% of the course grade, there are four negotiation preparation assignments, starting July 23rd and ending on August 4th, and one negotiator grade. Each is worth 3% of the course grade. Each will be graded as:

clearly excellent = 100%

adequate = 80%

suspect quality = 60%

fail = 0%.

The typical negotiation preparation will receive a grade of 80%. In addition to the written negotiation preparations, you can earn 3% of the course grade based on your performance as a negotiator. This grade will be based upon how each of the five persons who negotiate with you grade your performance on the truncated scale given above, as well as the instructor's observations of your negotiator skills.

A negotiation preparation form will be distributed (also see web page). You are free to use or to re-design this form. However, your negotiation preparation assignments must use the topic heading on the distributed form.
See TYPING REQUIREMENTS.

ORAL QUIZZES: 20% of your course grade is earned during in-class oral quizzes. Students will be called on randomly and will be called on in-groups of four, but will be graded individually. You will be called on at least four times and up to eight times over the course of the semester. Each ORAL QUIZ will be grade as either pass = 100% or as fail = 0%. Each ORAL QUIZ grade is based on your level of unhesitating recall of the memorization task (e.g., able to recite like you recite your phone number). If you demonstrate at least 60% unhesitating recall of the memorization during an ORAL QUIZ, then you will graded as a pass.

The ORAL QUIZZES will focus on memorization tasks. In the syllabus mailing and on the web page, there is a list of major topics in the course. For these major topics you need to memorize material. The list only identifies the topics for memorization; the list is not the thing to be memorized. For example, the major topics list includes fraud. For "fraud" you need to memorize that it has five elements: knowing, intentional, misrepresentation of material fact, justifiable reliance, and injury. You should scan the major topics list prior to doing the reading for the week and you should bring the major topics list to every class so that you can keep track of which topics have been covered to date.

Your memorization tasks are focused on lists of questions to guide your legal analysis (e.g., Was it knowing?, Was it intentional?, etc.). During ORAL QUIZZES you only will be asked questions about material covered in prior lectures, thus there will be no ORAL QUIZ on the first night of class.

PAPER:

All students shall attend a live performance of the play A Midsummer Night's Dream on Thursday July 2 and each student shall prepare a two page typed
legal analysis of the play.

The paper assignment is worth 10% of the course grade. 1% is earned by attendance at a live performance on July 2nd. 1% is earned on the first final draft of the paper due at the beginning of class on July 30th. 8% is earned on the second final draft of the paper due at the start of the final exam on August 6th.

Performances are staged in the Elmwood Park's natural amphitheater due south of the UNO Library and due east of the Criminal Justice (white brick) building. Typically, performances start at about 8:00 p.m. and generally are over about 10:30PM. On July 2 the class as a whole will attend the play as an extension of the regular class. Attendance will be taken for earning the 1%. Family members and guests are most welcome as the event is free and open to the public. Class will start at its ordinary start time of 6:00 p.m. and there will be a lecture until the crowd becomes too loud. There is a "Greens Show" of roaming minstrels starting at about 7:00 p.m. Parking in the central and western campus lots will become difficult about 6:30. In the case of bad weather, we will relocate to a pre-arranged campus building (most likely, room 214 in the Weber Fine Arts Building).

On July 30th each student shall submit two copies of a 1st final draft. During class on July 30th, one copy will be graded by another student and returned to the student author. The other copy will be evaluated by the instructor on a pass-fail basis as to whether the 1st final draft is, objectively, a good faith attempt at a "final draft." A pass will earn 100%, while a fail will earn 0%. See TYPING REQUIREMENTS.

Prior to the final exam on August 6th each student shall submit one copy of a 2nd final draft which will graded by the instructor. See TYPING REQUIREMENTS.

EXAMS:

There are three exams, a SOLO MIDTERM EXAM, a SOLO comprehensive final exam, and GROUP COMPREHENSIVE FINAL EXAM. The MIDTERM is on Thursday, July 16th and is worth 20% of the course grade. The COMPREHENSIVE FINAL EXAMs are at the Regent's scheduled final exam time August 6th and are worth 25% of the course grade. The SOLO FINAL is worth 15% and the GROUP FINAL is worth 10%.

The MIDTERM will be 50 true-false questions based on the lectures and the text. The SOLO FINAL will be 100 true-false questions based on the lectures and the text. The GROUP FINAL will be 20 zero guess (i.e., a, b, c, all, none, a+b, a+c, or b+c) multiple choice questions closely based on the SOLO FINAL. Each group will get three attempts at successfully completing the GROUP FINAL exam.

Groups will form no later than the end of break on July 30th. Groups may have 3 or 4 members. All groups must be voluntary associations: no student may be forced to join a group and no group may be forced to accept a student. If all students are not in voluntary groups by the end of break on July 30th then the instructor will randomly assign all students to involuntary groups. No group exists until all students are in voluntary groups or the instructor assigns involuntary groups.

TYPING REQUIREMENTS:

All typed assignments shall be in #12 font typeface, may be single or double spaced, shall use one inch margins on all four sides of a page, and shall be typed on one or both sides of a single sheet of 8 1/2" x 11" white paper. DO NOT USE A COVER SHEET, instead use a single line header (e.g., see top of this page) on each page identifying from left to right: (1) the student author; (2) the role played or assignment [e.g., 1st draft]; (3) the date submitted.

The ENRON Computer Lab in CBA 403 has word processing software and hardware for you to use and for which you have been charged a fee. Campus computing rooms in CBA 007, EAB 009, and DSC 104 also provide computer support. Grammar, punctuation, and spelling do influence your grade. For page limits and other assignment specific TYPING REQUIREMENTS, see the specific assignment. Significant failure to comply with the typing requirements will cause, at a minimum, an automatic deduction of 5% of your earned assignment grade.

MAKE-UP WORK:

Make-up work is strongly discouraged. There is no make-up work for DAILY ASSIGNMENTS.. There are two prerequisites for make-up work.

1. 24 hour prior notice of your intended absence, unless for sufficient reason (e.g., death of an immediate family member); AND

2. timely, written verification by an impartial third party
(e.g., from mortician on letterhead).

 

ACADEMIC DISHONESTY:

Any form of academic dishonesty (e.g., looking on another student's solo final exam) will be grounds for a course grade of "F."

DATE CHAPTERS TASKS and DEADLINES

June 30 Syllabus; Microeconomics; Cheeseman 6, 7, 10 & 11 (contracts & torts)

July 2 Contracts and Torts; attend play A Midsummer Night's Dream (WFA 214?)

July 7 Cheeseman 1, 2, 3, & 4 (legal systems; ethics; courts, ADR; international)
first ORAL QUIZ

July 9 Cheeseman 8 & 9 (property and crimes)

July 14 Cheeseman 5 (constitutional and administrative)

July 16 6:00 - 6:30 pre-exam student questions
6:30 - 7:30 SOLO MIDTERM EXAM
7:30 - 8:30 Fisher, Parts I & II (problem, method)
8:30 - 9:30 negotiation exercise

July 21 6:00 - 7:00 Fisher, Parts III, IV, & V (Yes, but; conclusion; 10 questions)
7:00 - 8:30 Cheeseman 14 (negotiable instruments and bankruptcy)
8:30 - 9:30 in class negotiation

July 23 Cheeseman 15, 12, & 13 (agency, partnerships, corporations)
first negotiation preparation due

July 28 Cheeseman 16 & 17 (employment, unions, safety, EEO)
second negotiation preparation due

July 30 Cheeseman 18 & 19 (consumer & environment) form groups
third negotiation preparation due 1st final draft due

August 4 Cheeseman 20 & 21 (antitrust & securities)
last negotiation preparation due STUDENT EVALUATIONS

August 6 6:00-6:30 pre-exam student questions 2nd final draft due
6:30-9:30 SOLO and GROUP COMPREHENSIVE FINAL EXAMs