Introduction to Business and Company Law
UndergraduateLTU-LST20012025
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- Subject may require attendance
- Enrol by
- 20 July 2025
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 12 weeks
- Start dates
- 3 Mar 2025,
- 28 July 2025
- Price from
- $2,124
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Introduction to Business and Company Law
About this subject
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Demonstrate knowledge of the key features of the Australian legal system.
- Identify principles applicable to contract law and law of negligence, including negligent misstatement and explain how these principles apply to commercial transactions.
- Evaluate legal principles, including cases and statutory provisions, relevant to company and commercial law and to the entities of corporations, and apply them appropriately to problem-solving scenarios.
- Describe and analyse the ethical frameworks of the laws relating to data protection and privacy regulation in business and corporations.
- Australian Law
- The Law of Contracts
- Consumer Protection Law
- Negligence
- Business Organisation
- Revision
This subject explores the core principles of contract law, consumer protection and the law of negligence, and examines business structures including the law relating to the incorporation of companies. This subject also introduces students to ethical standards that apply to business activities, such as contractual relationships and special legal protections against unethical business practices, and examines the practical operation of the law in the business environment. This subject adopts a skills-based learning approach through teaching the basic techniques of problem solving and promoting an understanding of the dynamic nature of the law in business and corporations. These skills prepare students for more advanced law subjects as well as their professional careers.
- Online quizzes (800 word equivalent) (20%)
- Case Study (1500 word equivalent) (30%)
- Exam scheduled in the central exam period (2000 word equivalent) (50%)
For textbook details check your university's handbook, website or learning management system (LMS).
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Elective
- LAT-BUS-DEG-2025 - Bachelor of Business
- LAT-ART-DEG-2025 - Bachelor of Arts
- LAT-PYS-DEG-2025 - Bachelor of Psychological Science
Others
Past La Trobe University students who have previously completed LST2BSL (Introduction to Business Law and Ethics) are ineligible to enrol in this subject.
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
UndergraduateLAT-BUS-DEG
UndergraduateLAT-ART-DEG
Bachelor of Psychological Science
UndergraduateLAT-PYS-DEG