COURSE INFORMATION
Course Title: BUSINESS LAW
Code Course Type Regular Semester Theory Practice Lab Credits ECTS
BUS 203 B 3 3 0 0 3 5
Academic staff member responsible for the design of the course syllabus (name, surname, academic title/scientific degree, email address and signature) NA
Lecturer (name, surname, academic title/scientific degree, email address and signature) and Office Hours: Gelanda Shkurtaj , 48
Second Lecturer(s) (name, surname, academic title/scientific degree, email address and signature) and Office Hours: NA
Teaching Assistant(s) and Office Hours: NA
Language: English
Compulsory/Elective: Compulsory
Classroom and Meeting Time:
Course Description: Business Law: The titles of the subjects are; Commercial undertaking, commercial affairs and results, merchant, trade register, unfair competition, classification of companies, Stock Corporation, negotiable instruments.
Course Objectives: Business law to make students understand the life of a company from all the points of view. It is a field of right, that aims to understand all the aspects of a company, by touching in a transversal way all the legal frame related to his life. So from this point of view, during this course, it will be treated civil law, labour law, commercial law, taxation law, under the codes in the Republic of Albania.
COURSE OUTLINE
Week Topics
1 Presentation of the syllabus. Introduction to the notion of Albanian Constitutional law, law and society, law and morality, law and justice
2 Legal systems and legal sources.
3 Civil Code. Contract law.
4 Continuing Civil Law and Contracts
5 Commercial Law in General
6 Commercial Law sh.p.k. and sh.a. Companies
7 Midterm
8 Commercial Law other Companies under Albanian Law
9 Taxation Law
10 Central and Local Taxes
11 Law on Tax Procedures
12 Labour Law
13 Intellectual Property Law
14 Final Exam
Prerequisite(s): NO
Textbook: THE BASES OF THE ALBANIAN CONSTITUTION. ALBANIAN CIVIL CODE. ALBANIAN COMMERCIAL CODE. ALBANIAN LAW ON TAX PROCEDURES. ALBANIAN LAW ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY. ALBANIAN LABOUR CODE.
Other References: NO
Laboratory Work: NO
Computer Usage: NO
Others: No
COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES
1 The students will receive basic and general information about law
2 The students have ability to use the legal knowledge in daily life
3 The students will receive sufficient information about business law and its use in the financial system
4 The students will receive basic information about business law.
5 The students will receive sufficient information about european law and their use in international relations
COURSE CONTRIBUTION TO... PROGRAM COMPETENCIES
(Blank : no contribution, 1: least contribution ... 5: highest contribution)
No Program Competencies Cont.
Bachelor in Economics (3 years) Program
1 The students are gained the ability to look at the problems of daily life from a broader perspective. They gain the needed skills not only to understand economic problems in economics but also to construct a model and defend in meaningful way. 2
2 They have knowledge about the microeconomics. 1
3 They have knowledge about the macroeconomics. 1
4 They have knowledge about the international economics and finance. 1
5 They have ability to use mathematical and statistical methods in economics. 1
6 They know how to use computer programs in both daily office usage and statistical data evaluations in public and private sector. 4
7 They have necessary economics skills that needed in private and public sector. 4
8 They are intended to be specialist in one of departmental fields that they choose from the list of general economics, growth and development, labor economics and labor market, environmental economics, agricultural economics, health economics, education economics and human development, political economics, international economics, monetary economics, finance economics, public finance, international financial markets and institutions, banking and central banking, international trade and banking, monetary economics and banking, 4
9 They have ability to utilize fundamental economic theories and tools to solve economic problems in economics. 2
10 They are aware of the fact that economics is a social science and they respect the social perspectives and social values of the society’s ethics. 5
COURSE EVALUATION METHOD
Method Quantity Percentage
Midterm Exam(s)
1
45
Final Exam
1
55
Total Percent: 100%
ECTS (ALLOCATED BASED ON STUDENT WORKLOAD)
Activities Quantity Duration(Hours) Total Workload(Hours)
Course Duration (Including the exam week: 16x Total course hours) 16 3 48
Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice) 16 3 48
Mid-terms 1 20 20
Assignments 1 3 3
Final examination 1 3 3
Other 1 3 3
Total Work Load:
125
Total Work Load/25(h):
5
ECTS Credit of the Course:
5