LINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY
COURSE SYLLABUS FOR 
BUSN 440: THE LEGAL AMD ETHICAL ENVIRONMENT OF BUSINESS 
BUSN 440Z: SENIOR WRITING REQUIREMENT


Semester and Year: Spring 2006 

Class Meetings: Thursdays 6:30 p.m. to 9:15 p.m in DeBusk Hall, Room 310 

Instructor: Marvin L. Campbell, B.S., M.B.A., J.D.
Telephone: (423) 638-2264 (office); (423) 586-3819 (home); (423) 522-2255 (mobile)
E-mail: Marvin_Campbell@tneb.uscourts.gov or marvin.campbell@lmunet.edu
Office hours: Instructor is available for student conferences 15 minutes before and after each class, and at
other times by appointment.


Re disability: All students with disabilities (learning or physical) should contact Judy Beal in the Office of 
Student Services at (423) 869-6393 

Course Description: Survey of legal issues directly relating to business including the court system, legal forms 
of business, torts, contracts, strict and vicarious liability, product liability, and federal and state regulation 
of business activities. 

Units: three semester hours credit 

Text: Business Law Today, The Essentials, Roger LeRoy Miller and Gaylord A. Jentz (Thomson-West 2006, 
7th ed.). Other materials found on website: http://blt.westbuslaw.com 

Course Objectives: Upon successful completion of this course, a student will demonstrate an understanding 
of the principles and terminology commonly utilized in the American Legal System as they relate to business 
and the basic ability to apply this knowledge in a conceptual fashion to various business situations. This shall 
be accomplished by lectures and classroom discussion tailored to the required reading assignments and class 
work. 

Instructional Methods: Lecture integrated with class discussion; visual aids and handouts; homework, weekly 
quizzes and periodic testing. 

Evaluation of Student Performance: Periodic testing including midterm examination (30%) and 
comprehensive final examination (40%) using multiple choice and essay questions; class participation, 
including attendance, attention and involvement (15%); and weekly quizzes (15%). The Senior Writing 
Requirement (Busn 440Z) will be graded Pass/Fail. Otherwise, the course will follow the grading scale as 
outlined in the college catalog for the final assigned letter grade and as follows: A = 95 to100, A- = 90 to94, 
B+ = 88 to 89, B = 85 to 87, B- = 80-84, C+ = 78-79, C = 75-77, C- = 70-74, D+ = 68-69, D = 65-67, D- = 
60-64, and F = 0-59. 

General Requirements: If you must miss a class, make every effort to let the instructor know beforehand. If 
you cannot do that, contact the instructor as soon as possible after the missed class session to obtain the latest 
assignment. Missed assignments and examinations should be made up by the next class session. 

Academic Integrity: It is the aim of the faculty of Lincoln Memorial University to foster a spirit of complete 


honesty and a high standard of integrity. The attempt of any student to present as her/his own any work 
which he/she has not honestly performed is regarded by the faculty and administration as a very serious 
offense and renders the offender liable to severe consequences and possible suspension. 

1. Cheating: dishonesty of any kind on examinations or written assignments, unauthorized 
possession of examination questions, the use of unauthorized notes during an examination, obtaining 
information during an examination from another student, assisting others to cheat, altering grade records, or 
illegally entering an office are instances of cheating. 
2. Plagiarism: offering the work of another as one’s own without proper acknowledgment is 
plagiarism; therefore, any student who fails to give credit for quotations or essentially identical material taken 
from books, magazines, encyclopedias, web sources or other reference works, or from the themes, reports, 
or other writing of a fellow student has committed plagiarism. 
Anti-plagiarism software licensed by Lincoln Memorial University for faculty use may be used to evaluate 
writing assignments in this class. 

COURSE OUTLINE 

January 12........................................Introduction
January 19 .......................................Chapter 1 and Appendix
January 26........................................Chapters 3 and 4
February 2........................................Chapters 5 and 6
February 9........................................Chapters 7 and 8 
February 16......................................Chapters 9 and 10
February 23......................................Chapters 11 and 12
March 2............................................MIDTERM EXAM
March 9............................................Chapters 13 and 14
March 16..........................................Chapters 15 and 16
March 23..........................................Spring Break - No Class
March 30..........................................Chapters 17 and 18
April 6..............................................Chapters 19 and 20
April 13............................................Chapters 2, 21 and 22
April 20............................................Chapters 23 and 24.
April 27............................................FINAL EXAM
May 4...............................................Course and Individual Grade Review


Students must 
read the assigned 
chapters and 
other materials 
prior to each 
class session and 
be prepared to 
intelligently 
discuss the topics 
included therein, 
including all 
review questions 
and other 
questions which 
may be assigned 
the week before.