Undergraduate Catalog 2025-2026

Business Law, Certificate (1792)


Program Coordinator

Whitney O. Peake, whitney.peake@wku.edu, (270) 745-2913

The certificate in business law is designed to teach the fundamentals of law from a transactional business perspective to appeal to both Gordon Ford College of Business majors and those majors outside the college of business.

Program Requirements (15 hours)

MGT 200Legal Environment of Business3
MGT 301Business Law3
ECON 390Economics, Law, and Public Choice3
MGT 497ECertificate Assessment - Business Law0
Choose one of the following3
Organization and Management
Ethics and Critical Thinking
Choose one of the following3
Employment Law
Business Negotiation
International Human Resource Management
Management of Labor Relations
Legal Research and Writing I
Property Law
Corporate Law
Ethical Theory
Philosophy of Law
Business Law for the Accounting Professional
The Economics of Poverty and Discrimination
Total Hours15