MSP 5210 Legal Environment
The course will begin with the fundamentals of how the law has evolved and its importance in society. Attention will be given to the Tennessee and the Federal court systems as well as petit and grand juries and the anatomy of the trial itself. The second phase and the majority of the course will focus on legal issues in the workplace and employment law such as racial, sexual, religious, and national origin discrimination and harassment, violence in the workplace, the employment-at-will doctrine, workplace drug and privacy issues and agency relationships between employees and employers. Additional topics to be discussed concern negligent hiring, supervision and retention, the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), and business torts.
Credits
3
Offered
Every Fall