Corporate and sole proprietor legislation, employee risk and employer liability, licenses and taxes—knowing the legal context for starting, managing and growing a business are complex and critical.
With a legal studies in business minor, you can provide insight and advice to business professionals or use your knowledge to guide your own entrepreneurial activities.
Why take this minor?
Law and legal issues affect all businesses. When you take the legal studies in business minor, you learn to recognize situations that pose possible legal risk and require consideration. You explore legal issues and topics that impact public, private and government organizations.
What to expect
When you minor in legal studies for business, you take an advanced business law class that focuses on legal topics that are common to all businesses, such as the Goods and Services Act, consumer protection legislation and intellectual property law.
You also take senior-level courses that provide a more in-depth look at a variety of business legal issues or topics, choosing from areas such as real estate law, legal issues in the workplace and ethics and the law.
Job-ready skills
In this minor, you gain skills and knowledge that help you recognize legal and ethical considerations associated with business activities and consumer transactions. Upon completing the minor, you understand:
- Administrative law and the regulatory environment
- Legal aspects of domestic and international business
- Employment and workplace law
- Consumer protection legislation
- Intellectual property in the online environment
The Alberta Learning Information Service (ALIS) has detailed occupational profiles, salary survey data, trend reports and assessment tools to help you choose and plan a career that matches your skills and interests.
Program of study
MINOR | BACHELOR OF COMMERCE
This program of study is open to students in the Bachelor of Commerce. Courses for your minor are only one component of your degree. You must complete all courses and requirements outlined in the academic calendar for the year you declare or re-declare your major and minor or the year you are accepted into an Honours program.
