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Course catalog descriptions for courses offered in all currently published terms.
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Law, History, Communication |
Department Chairperson: Schipani, Cindy
Department Website: http://www.bus.umich.edu/Academics/Departments/LHC/
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| LHC 504 |
Legal Aspects of Entrepreneurship |
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2.25 hours |
Elective |
Terms Offered: W10(A), W09(A) |
| | Advisory Prerequisites: No JD students |
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Legal Aspects of Entrepreneurship --- LAW- Law provides entrepreneurs
with many opportunities for competitive advantage. This course offers
an examination of the issues that every entrepreneur should understand,
from start-up to IPO. These issues include legal concerns that arise
when you leave your current employer to start a business, creating an
appropriate ownership structure, funding the venture, contracting with
vendors and customers, hiring and retaining the best staff, protecting
you intellectual property, and going public. |
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| LHC 506 |
Corporate Governance |
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2.25 hours |
Elective |
Terms Offered: W10(A), W09(A) |
| | Advisory Prerequisites: No JD students |
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Corporate Governance --- LAW- This course examines how corporations are governed and to whom they should be responsible. Topics include the role of the board of directors: reaggregation of shareholder power due to concentrated institutional holdings; effects of legislation on corporate governance, including laws that permit or require the board of directors to consider the interests of stakeholders like employees, customers, suppliers, and communities. Consideration is also given to international comparisons of corporate governance structures and legal issues arising in contests for corporate control. This course fulfills the MBA law/ethics requirement. |
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| LHC 507 |
Law of Finance and Banking |
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1.5 hours |
Elective |
Terms Offered: W09(B), W10(B) |
| | Advisory Prerequisites: No JD students |
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Law of Finance and Banking --- LAW - This course examines the law relating to short-term finance (accounts receivable, commercial paper), the rights of secured versus unsecured creditors, bankruptcy and various debtor protection statutes. Statutes and court cases are examined and explained. The method of instruction combines lectures and class discussion. |
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| LHC 508 |
Regulation of Securities Issuers |
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2.25 hours |
Elective |
Terms Offered: W10(A) |
| | Advisory Prerequisites: No JD students |
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Regulation of Securities Issuers --- This course covers securities law as relevant to issuers of securities. The primary topics covered are: Regulatory structure, raising capital in the securities markets, communicating with shareholders, the role of securities regulation in tender offers, shareholders activism, civil and criminal enforcement, international issues, and insider trading. This course should be of interest to those going into corporate finance, investment banking and to entrepreneurs.
The class will focus heavily on actual and expected types of legal claims faced by corporations and application of the law in actual and hypothetical situations. As a result, many of the class discussions will concentrate on court opinions and litigated fact situations. This course fulfills the MBA law/ethics requirement. |
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| LHC 509 |
Intellectual Property Law |
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2.25 hours |
Elective |
Terms Offered: F09(B), F08(B) |
| | Advisory Prerequisites: No JD students |
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Intellectual Property Law --- An introduction to legal options available to protect intellectual property, including international aspects of intellectual property law. Topics covered include: patent law (including general policies and procedures, application processes, infringement and remedies, and international patent protections issues); trade secrets (including the Uniform Trade Secrets Act, protective measures, and international issues); copyright law (including ownership and acquisition, infringement and remedies, technology issues, and international copyright protection issues); and trademark law ? including general principles, federal procedures, infringement, dilution, remedies, and international aspects of trademark protection. |
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| LHC 510 |
Negotiation and Dispute Resolution |
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2.25 hours |
Elective |
Terms Offered: W09(B), M09 |
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Negotiation and Dispute Resolution --- LAW- The ability to negotiate
effectively is critical to the success of managers and their
organizations. This course emphasizes negotiation strategies and skills
that enable managers to create and claim value in a manner that enhances
long-term business relationships. Among the specific topics in the
course are cross-cultural negotiation, legal and ethical frameworks for
negotiation, and psychological tools that enhance negotiation
effectiveness. The course also includes the manager's and consultant's
role in dispute resolution. Mediation and arbitration-dispute
resolution processes that involve neutral parties-are covered, along
with the design of dispute resolution systems. |
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| LHC 512 |
Introduction to Business Law |
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1.5 hours |
Elective |
Terms Offered: F09(A), F08(A) |
| | Course Prerequisites: No credit in LHC 511 |
| | Advisory Prerequisites: No JD students |
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Introduction to Business Law --- Provides an introduction to law and the legal system and is recommended to students with little or no exposure to the common law legal system. Topics include: classifications and sources of law; government regulation of business, including constitutional limitation and the role of administrative agencies; court systems and civil and criminal procedure; lawyer-client relations and management of the law function; the two legal foundations of business: contract and tort law. This course covers approximately the first half of the material in LHC 511. |
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| LHC 513 |
Law of Marketing |
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1.5 hours |
Elective |
Terms Offered: F09(B), F08(B) |
| | Course Prerequisites: No credit in LHC 511 |
| | Advisory Prerequisites: No JD students |
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Law of Marketing --- This course is an overview of the law relating to marketing activities, including relevant international issues. The course takes the student through the legal issues raised by the marketing function, from the initial issues related to product development, through sale of the product or service to the public, to legal issues relating to distribution and promotion of the product or service. Topics to be covered include the protection of intellectual property; the law relating to the sale of goods; liability for defective goods (warranty and products liability law); antitrust law; consumer protection; the regulation of unfair or deceptive practices; and commercial speech issues. This course is designed to have a managerial focus and to provide the student with the necessary tools to make more informed decisions when confronted with legal questions regarding the marketing function. The emphasis is on the prevention of legal liability and disputes and the use of the law to create orderly, defensible business decision-making. This course covers approximately the second half of the material in LHC 511. |
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| LHC 514 |
Employment Law for Managers |
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1.5 hours |
Elective |
Terms Offered: W09(B), W10(B) |
| | Advisory Prerequisites: No JD students |
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Employment Law for Managers --- LAW- This course focuses on creating
frameworks for assessing the legal issues in common managerial
situations. We will discuss practical implications for managerial
responsibilities such as hiring, firing and giving performance reviews
as well as common workplace issues like harassment and discrimination.
The goal of this course is to engage you to better evaluate future
employment issues and be a more effective manager.
This course is targeted toward anyone who expects to manage or supervise
others, whether directly or indirectly, in large or small organizations.
The focus is on the standards governing workplace conduct so managers
understand their own rights as well as the rights of those who work for
them. It will be useful for students who intend to run their own
business, aspire to be a manager, work in human resources, or need to
understand employment issues as a consultant. Major topics include:
employee / employer relationships; hiring, firing, and evaluating
employees; employee privacy rights; employee benefits; labor unions and
the rights of non-unionized workers; discrimination, such as race,
disability, and gender discrimination, and the potential the liability
of companies, managers, and individuals employees in those situations.
The class will focus heavily on the application of the law in actual and
hypothetical situations. As a result, many of the class discussions
will concentrate on course opinions and litigated situations. |
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| LHC 517 |
Law of Business Organizations |
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2.25 hours |
Elective |
Terms Offered: W10(A), W09(A) |
| | Course Prerequisites: No credit in LHC 516 |
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Law of Business Organizations --- LAW- An introduction to the legal aspects of forming and operating a business enterprise. Topics covered: law of agency relationships, partnerships and limited partnerships, corporation formation law, shareholder rights, corporate management, expansion, reorganization, corporate control and insider trading. |
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| LHC 521 |
Writing Fundamentals for Entrepreneurs |
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1.5 hours |
Elective |
Terms Offered: F09(B), F08(B) |
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Writing Fundamentals for Entrepeneurs --- This course explores fundamental communication principles for writing required in entrepreneurial contexts. The course overviews relevant business writing principles giving participants an opportunity to complete entrepreneurial documents including personal biographical statements, product descriptions, industry overviews, value propositions, target market analyses, and mission statements. Participants also evaluate business plans and solicitations for funding. |
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| LHC 522 |
Managerial Writing Fundamentals |
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1.5 hours |
Elective |
Terms Offered: W10(A), F09(B), W09(B), W09(A), F09(A), F08(A), F08(B), W10(B) |
| | Course Prerequisites: No credit in LHC 594 |
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Managerial Writing Fundamentals --- Fundamentals for managerial writing are central to the course. Students review the punctuation, grammar, syntax, organizational approaches, content development and conventional formats necessary for managerial documents. Goals include writing clearly, concisely and correctly, achieved through numerous writing exercises and by composing a variety of business memoranda and letters. |
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| LHC 524 |
Persuasive Management Communication |
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1.5 hours |
Elective |
Terms Offered: W10(A), F09(B), W09(A), M08, M09, F08(B), S08 |
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Persuasive Management Communication --- This course presents persuasive communication strategies that facilitate effective management. Specifically, the course covers fundamental persuasive frameworks (e.g. compliance-gaining, conflict management, credibility control) applied to oral and written messages. These frameworks provide a basis for exploring persuasive communication in a variety of management settings. Special emphasis is placed on differing strategies associated with cultural variation, focusing on those most critical for global business communication. |
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| LHC 561 |
Management Presentations |
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1.5 hours |
Elective |
Terms Offered: W10(A), W09(B), F09(B), W09(A), F09(A), F08(A), W10(B), F08(B) |
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Management Presentations --- This course stresses the concepts and skills needed to give effective oral presentations in professional settings. The course is guided by a theoretical framework that emphasizes strategic communication choices, expansion of communication styles, and adaptation to others within communication contexts. This course requires students to give professional business presentations in each of the four quadrants of management communication. In the course of doing these presentations, students develop outlines, create speaking notes, adapt content, and design supplementary materials. Students also practice questions management and impromptu speaking. By the end of the course, students will be able to design, develop, and deliver management presentations that employ a variety of audience-centered strategies. |
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| LHC 582 |
Real Estate Law |
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3 hours |
Elective |
Terms Offered: W09, W10 |
| | Advisory Prerequisites: NO J.D. STU. |
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Real Estate Law --- LAW- The legal distinction between real and personal property; the importance of fixtures in real estate acquisition and development; the nature and use of air, water and mineral rights; the role of easements in real estate development; the types of ownership (general forms such as joint ownership, condominiums, and timeshares, and investment forms such as limited partnerships, LLCs, and real estate investment trusts); contractual arrangements with real estate brokers; anti-discrimination laws, real estate contracts; proof of title and the role of title companies; legal aspects of financing - mortgages, land contracts, mechanics liens; closings; and acquisition through lenses. |
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| LHC 594 |
Written Managerial Communication |
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1.5 hours |
Core |
Terms Offered: W09(B), W10(B) |
| | Course Prerequisites: No credit in LHC 520, 522 |
| | Advisory Prerequisites: Global MBA students only |
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Written Managerial Communication --- This course stresses fundamental theories and strategies needed for effective writing in diverse management situations. The course perspective is that of the manager in a multi-national organization; the course focus is on the impact of written messages on receivers both internal and external to the organization; the course context is communication in the global marketplace, bearing in mind that although English is used extensively in doing business in the world communication is always influenced by culture. Written communication topics include fundamental, such as audience awareness, organizational strategies, content development, and language control; persuasion; intercultural communication; and message channel choices. Although most work is done in writing, students will be able to make effective communication choices and write under time constraints. |
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| LHC 595 |
Oral Communication Management |
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1.5 hours |
Core |
Terms Offered: W09(B), W10(B) |
| | Course Prerequisites: No credit in LHC 560 |
| | Advisory Prerequisites: Global MBA students only |
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Oral Communication Management --- This course provides conceptual frameworks and decision-making tools managing recurring oral communications, such as management presentations, performance appraisals, and directing subordinates. Responding to cases, participants give individual and term presentations as well as complete interpersonal scenarios replicating situations that managers encounter regularly. |
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| LHC 688 |
Washington Campus |
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3 hours |
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Terms Offered: W10(A), W10(B) |
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Washington Campus --- Business and the Public Policy Process is designed to provide students with the tools needed to formulate effective corporate strategies for participation in the domestic and international policy arenas. The course focuses on the process of policy formation and implementation, comparing the United States with other governmental systems. The course also addresses the optimal interaction of business with government in a global competitive environment. |
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| LHC 750 |
Independent Study Project |
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1 - 3 hours |
Elective |
Terms Offered: F09, S09, W09, M08, M09, F08, W10, S08 |
| | Advisory Prerequisites: Graduate standing. |
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Independent Study Project --- Independent study projects, supervised by faculty, are available to graduate business students in good academic standing. To select a project, students should consult the appropriate professor about the nature of the project and the number of credit hours the work would earn. Students earn one to three credit hours per project and may elect only one study project in a term. Graduate business students should consult their program bulletins for information
regarding total number of projects and credits that can be applied to their degree. To register for a project students must submit an approved Independent Study Project application, available online. |
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