67 courses with the subject LSTU, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
LSTU 500SIntroduction to the Legal System3.0
This course will begin to help students "think like lawyers" by providing an overview of the United States legal system. It will explain the legislative and judicial processes, so that students will gain an understanding of where the power to regulate originates and the basis of federal law and regulations. The course will then focus on substantive areas of the law, such as torts, contracts, and criminal law.
This is a skills course that provides students opportunities to develop internal audit skills and strategies, conduct internal investigation work plans, and draft executive level communications. The skills taught will include work plan development, investigative techniques, interviewing methods, class presentations, and drafting of projects plans and board/executive level reporting.
Students will be exposed to fundamental issues and current best practices in managing issues of ethical/legal compliance, corporate social responsibility and business ethics. Topics cover business issues, including anti-corruption, environmental crimes/compliance, child labor, employment discrimination, crisis management, whistleblowing, retaliation, fraud, privacy, sustainability and social enterprise. Special attention is given to preparing students to understand and manage the demands on corporations making complex business decisions in the face of increasing expectations for transparency and accountability.
Students will learn how to research topics and distill their research in written form through a series of exercises. They will also be expected to complete numerous written communications of increasing length and complexity. Detailed feedback will be provided on all written exercises by the professor.
This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the laws and regulations encountered by compliance professionals. The course will equip students to apply statutory and regulatory principles to situations that they will encounter in their work.
LSTU 505SHealth Care Quality, Patient Safety and Risk Management3.0
This course will examine methods and tools for managing quality in health facilities, physician practices, managed care, and public health; including developments in quality assurance and improvement, utilization review, risk management, and patient satisfaction.
LSTU 506SPatients and Privacy: HIPAA and Related Regulations2.0-3.0
The focus of this course will be the privacy and security provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), the foundation for federal protections of health care information. Additionally, the course will examine the interplay between HIPAA and other federal and state health privacy laws and the application and enforcement of those laws in a variety of health care settings. The class will incorporate discussions about the close and evolving relationships among health care policy, evolving social norms, and health privacy laws.
Risk assessment and management has become a crucially important field for private sector business as well as government sector agencies and organizations, particularly over the past decade following the passage of laws such as Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank. This course will examine regulatory compliance and risk management issues that impact various corporate and governmental entities, providing students the opportunity to explore risk analysis and compliance in a variety of legal environments. This course will help familiarize students with issues that might arise in corporate risk management departments, contracts departments, risk management consulting, and the regulatory compliance departments of financial services industries, banking, insurance, credit, risk assessment, and benefits management.
This course will allow students to examine whether the increasing intensification of college sports might support or detract from higher education's core mission. Students will begin to understand the NCAA legislative process, and understand the tradeoffs between the intensification of sports programs and educational policy at higher education institutions.
This course will cover NCAA Division I rules and regulations. Students will also examine the impact of intercollegiate athletics on undergraduate education, particularly at large public research universities with high-profile football and men's basketball teams playing at the top National College Athletics Association level.
This course will continue to cover NCAA Division I rules and regulations, the impact of intercollegiate athletics on undergraduate student athletes and non-athletes, and the funding of academic departments.
This course examines the history of the sports agent business and the rules and laws developed to regulate the profession. Students will also learn about the recommendations for reform, including uniform laws that would apply to all agents, redefining amateurism in college sports, and stiffening requirements for licensing agents. The passage of the federal Sports Agent Responsibility and Trust Act will also be covered.
This course will introduce students to the development of information privacy law in the United States. It will focus on legal regulations limiting government access to private information as well as laws regulating the ability of third parties to access such information. It will conclude with an introduction to the privacy regulatory regime imposed by the Federal Trade Commission and European Union regulators.
LSTU 517SThe Law and Strategies Surrounding Cybersecurity3.0
This course will introduce students to the legal and regulatory frameworks governing US cybersecurity. It will examine topics including domestic cybersecurity standards, data breach notification and response, and the creation of compliance programs to manage cybersecurity risks.
LSTU 520SLegal Issues in Employee Hiring and Termination3.0
Legal issues in hiring and termination of employees are at the core of human resources responsibilities. This course will examine regulatory compliance and management issues that arise in the context of hiring and terminating employees with special consideration of federal law and its continued developments. This course will help familiarize students with issues that arise in human resource departments, particularly as they pertain to those points of entry and exit and where the need to document becomes a critical duty of those managing the hiring, evaluation and termination process.
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LSTU
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
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course
Repeatable
Can be repeated 1 times for 6 credits Restrictions: Can enroll if major is CHRC or major is LSTU.
LSTU 521SHuman Resources Compliance: Managing the Employer/Employee Relationship3.0
This course is designed to introduce students to the fundamentals of human resource compliance and regulation and to provide an overview of the skills necessary to manage human resources effectively. The course will examine why human resource management matters in today’s business world and will show how employee performance and legal compliance serve as intermediary processes that connect human resource practices to organizational performance and effectiveness. Students will discuss the various ways in which the employer/employee relationship can be harnessed in positive ways rather than be seen in an adversarial light. This course will highlight issues that might arise in human resource departments, compliance departments and benefits management departments.
LSTU 522SHuman Resources in Practice: Negotiation, Mediation, and Alternative Dispute Resolution3.0
Human resource managers deal not only with laws, rules and regulations, but also and foremost, with people. This course explores the practical reality of working in human resources and provides the necessary skills to ensure competency and success. The course focuses on negotiation with subordinates, peers and supervisors; mediation, because human resource workers often act as informal mediators between employees and supervisors; and alternative dispute resolution, as more employers require their employees to submit their complaints to some form of resolution process as an alternative to a formal lawsuit. This course will familiarize students with issues that arise in human resource departments and provide them with concrete tools to analyze, understand, and implement the best possible path to resolution.
This course is designed to introduce students to the constitutional rights of prisoners and the implications of those rights for prison management. In particular, students will gain a working knowledge of the role of the First Amendment in regulating inmate mail, associational rights, religious practice, and visitation. They will learn how the Fourth Amendment relates to searches of both inmates and visitors. Students will discover how the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment Due Process rights control inmate transfer, classification and discipline. They will also learn how the Eighth Amendment controls prison policy with respect to the conditions of confinement and provision of health care.
This course serves as an introduction to the fundamentals of writing specific to the growing area of compliance and addresses why compliance writing is different than general business writing. Assignments are drawn from the various types of writing that are typical of compliance professionals in various industries. Topics include writing for different audiences (various corporate departments, c-suite executives, boards of directors, regulators, the public, etc.), policy and procedure writing, the complexities of communicating with a diverse global audience, investigation memos and evaluation/communication of metrics-based data.
This course will provide students with faculty and peer support and guidance in preparing a capstone research project in completion of the Master of Legal Studies. Students will prepare a major written project which may consist of a novel legal claim supported by a substantial literature review or an experientially-based study grounded in a substantial literature review.
This course will begin to help students "think like lawyers" by providing an overview of the United States legal system. It will explain the legislative and judicial processes, so that students will gain an understanding of where the power to regulate originates and the basis of federal law and regulations. The course will then focus on substantive areas of the law, such as torts, contracts, and criminal law.
This is a skills course that provides students opportunities to develop internal audit skills and strategies, conduct internal investigation work plans, and draft executive level communications. The skills taught will include work plan development, investigative techniques, interviewing methods, class presentations, and drafting of projects plans and board/executive level reporting.
Students will be exposed to fundamental issues and current best practices in managing issues of ethical/legal compliance, corporate social responsibility and business ethics. Topics cover business issues, including anti-corruption, environmental crimes/compliance, child labor, employment discrimination, crisis management, whistleblowing, retaliation, fraud, privacy, sustainability and social enterprise. Special attention is given to preparing students to understand and manage the demands on corporations making complex business decisions in the face of increasing expectations for transparency and accountability.
Students will learn how to research topics and distill their research in written form through a series of exercises. They will also be expected to complete numerous written communications of increasing length and complexity. Detailed feedback will be provided on all written exercises by the professor.
Risk assessment and management has become a crucially important field for private sector business as well as government sector agencies and organizations, particularly over the past decade following the passage of laws such as Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank. This course will examine regulatory compliance and risk management issues that impact various corporate and governmental entities, providing students the opportunity to explore risk analysis and compliance in a variety of legal environments. This course will help familiarize students with issues that might arise in corporate risk management departments, contracts departments, risk management consulting, and the regulatory compliance departments of financial services industries, banking, insurance, credit, risk assessment, and benefits management.
This course serves as an introduction to the fundamentals of writing specific to the growing area of compliance and addresses why compliance writing is different than general business writing. Assignments are drawn from the various types of writing that are typical of compliance professionals in various industries. Topics include writing for different audiences (various corporate departments, c-suite executives, boards of directors, regulators, the public, etc.), policy and procedure writing, the complexities of communicating with a diverse global audience, investigation memos and evaluation/communication of metrics-based data.
LSTU 556Legal Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence4.0
AI and the Law explores the ethical and legal challenges posed by the ubiquity of artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomous machines. AI now affects professional responsibility, law-making, law enforcement, criminal law, health law, intellectual property law, and other areas of legal practice. AI also affects many aspects of a lawyer's life both personally and professionally, from research to drafting to billing to listening to music. This course will examine issues such as discrimination, human rights, culpability, "disruption of industry," due process, privacy, compliance, and intellectual property in the context of AI.
This course will provide students with faculty and peer support and guidance in preparing a capstone research project in completion of the Master of Legal Studies. Students will prepare a major written project which may consist of a novel legal claim supported by a substantial literature review or an experientially-based study grounded in a substantial literature review.
This course will provide students with faculty and peer support and guidance in preparing a capstone research project in completion of the Master of Legal Studies. Students will prepare a major written project which may consist of a novel legal claim supported by a substantial literature review or an experientially-based study grounded in a substantial literature review.
LSTU 570Health Care Fraud: Regulation, Investigation, and Enforcement4.0
Health care fraud is a significant challenge in the United States. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, national health care spending was estimated to exceed $4 trillion in 2020. By one estimate, up to 10% of health care spending may be due to fraud and abuse, resulting in significant financial losses for consumers, government, and private plans and perhaps even more problematic, posing serious harm to patients. The course will be divided into three parts. First, discuss the criminal, civil, and administrative regulation of health care and the authorities enforcing those rules. Second, discuss the methods by which fraud is investigated and their limitations. Third, apply the knowledge gained in the first two segments to specific areas of health care enforcement, including elder abuse.
LSTU 571Legal Issues for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare4.0
This course will provide an introduction to AI for non-scientists, and then develop the issues in the legal, regulatory and ethical context. This course will include topics in FDA Law, Health Law and Bioethics and will be helpful to students who work in regulatory compliance and healthcare technology, management and delivery.
This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the laws and regulations encountered by compliance professionals. The course will equip students to apply statutory and regulatory principles to situations that they will encounter in their work.
LSTU 601Health Care Quality, Patient Safety and Risk Management4.0
This course will examine methods and tools for managing quality in health facilities, physician practices, managed care, and public health; including developments in quality assurance and improvement, utilization review, risk management, and patient satisfaction.
LSTU 602Patients and Privacy: HIPAA and Related Regulations4.0
The focus of this course will be the privacy and security provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), the foundation for federal protections of health care information. Additionally, the course will examine the interplay between HIPAA and other federal and state health privacy laws and the application and enforcement of those laws in a variety of health care settings. The class will incorporate discussions about the close and evolving relationships among health care policy, evolving social norms, and health privacy laws.
LSTU 603Legal Regulation of Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Research and Development4.0
This course explores the regulatory entities and schemes governing the research and development, management, financing, and reporting requirements of clinical trials in the pharmaceutical and life sciences sectors. Topics include the role of the Institutional Review Board, compliance with Good Clinical Practice standards, informed consent, pharmacovigilance and the protection of human research subjects, payments and financial transparency, conflicts of interest, ethical considerations in designing and executing clinical trials, and reporting requirements.
LSTU 604Legal Regulation of Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Sales and Marketing Practices4.0
This course explores the law governing pharmaceutical and medical device sales and marketing practices, including product pricing, advertising, labeling, promotion and distribution. Topics may include identification of the entities regulating pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers, disclosure and transparency requirements, payments to doctors and institutions, fraud and abuse, anti-bribery laws, direct-to-consumer advertising including internet advertising, off-label marketing and promotion, labeling over-the-counter (OTC) drugs, and limitations on the government’s ability to regulate commercial speech.
This course considers the federal regulation of products subject to FDA jurisdiction, including food, human prescription and nonprescription drugs, animal feed and drugs, biologics and blood products, medical devices, and cosmetics. The course examines the public policy choices underlying the substantive law, FDA enforcement power, and agency practice and procedure.
This course will provide a comprehensive overview of the NCAA governance methodology and structure related to managing a Division I Intercollegiate athletic program. Students will explore the NCAA bylaws, focusing specifically on large public research universities with high-profile teams playing at the top National College Athletics Association level, and will examine the relationship between athletics and undergraduate education.
LSTU 611NCAA Governance II- Division II and III4.0
This course will introduce students to the membership criteria and governance structure relating to managing a Division II or III Intercollegiate athletic program. Students will explore NCAA rules-making process and bylaws specific to DII and DIII schools and will continue the examination of the relationship between athletics and education in the higher education setting.
LSTU 612NCAA Infractions and Enforcement Processes4.0
This course will offer a comprehensive overview of the NCAA enforcement mechanism for infractions of the NCAA rules and regulations in across Divisions. Students will examine the investigatory processes and the consequences member institutions face for violating NCAA bylaws. Students will also explore how the rules have been interpreted and enforced by the NCAA, on campus, and by judicial decisions.
LSTU 620Legal Issues in Employee Hiring and Termination4.0
Legal issues in hiring and termination of employees are at the core of human resources responsibilities. This course will examine regulatory compliance and management issues that arise in the context of hiring and terminating employees with special consideration of federal law and its continued developments. This course will help familiarize students with issues that arise in human resource departments, particularly as they pertain to those points of entry and exit and where the need to document becomes a critical duty of those managing the hiring, evaluation and termination process.
LSTU 621Human Resources Compliance: Managing the Employer/Employee Relationship4.0
This course is designed to introduce students to the fundamentals of human resource compliance and regulation and to provide an overview of the skills necessary to manage human resources effectively. The course will examine why human resource management matters in today’s business world and will show how employee performance and legal compliance serve as intermediary processes that connect human resource practices to organizational performance and effectiveness. Students will discuss the various ways in which the employer/employee relationship can be harnessed in positive ways rather than be seen in an adversarial light. This course will highlight issues that might arise in human resource departments, compliance departments and benefits management departments.
LSTU 622Human Resources in Practice: Negotiation, Mediation, and Alternative Dispute Resolution4.0
Human resource managers deal not only with laws, rules and regulations, but also and foremost, with people. This course explores the practical reality of working in human resources and provides the necessary skills to ensure competency and success. The course focuses on negotiation with subordinates, peers and supervisors; mediation, because human resource workers often act as informal mediators between employees and supervisors; and alternative dispute resolution, as more employers require their employees to submit their complaints to some form of resolution process as an alternative to a formal lawsuit. This course will familiarize students with issues that arise in human resource departments and provide them with concrete tools to analyze, understand, and implement the best possible path to resolution.
This course is designed to introduce students to the constitutional rights of prisoners and the implications of those rights for prison management. In particular, students will gain a working knowledge of the role of the First Amendment in regulating inmate mail, associational rights, religious practice, and visitation. They will learn how the Fourth Amendment relates to searches of both inmates and visitors. Students will discover how the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment Due Process rights control inmate transfer, classification and discipline. They will also learn how the Eighth Amendment controls prison policy with respect to the conditions of confinement and provision of health care.
This course examines the principles that underlie liability for criminal conduct. Topics include the definition of crimes and the principles of punishment, the required acts and mental states necessary for liability, and defenses to and justifications for conduct. Specific crimes will be discussed including conspiracy and intentional murder and manslaughter.
This course considers the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable search and seizure, the Fifth Amendment's right to Due Process and against compulsory self-incriminations, and the Sixth Amendment's right to counsel, all with particular emphasis on the application of these constitutional provisions within the context of criminal investigation.
LSTU 640Legal Landscape of Student Rights and Campus Safety4.0
This course will discuss the legal rights of students beginning at the application process and continuing through matriculation and separation from the higher education institution. Topics may include the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA); anti-discrimination and equal access issues; campus crime and safety, including sexual assault and required disclosures; and liability and negligence on the part of the institution.
LSTU 641Institutional Compliance: Aid and Accreditation4.0
This course will provide an overview of compliance issues in American institutions of higher learning as they pertain to financial aid and accreditation. In particular, this course will focus on issues pertaining to federal and state financial aid, college access, and reporting requirements. The course will also examine accreditation and disclosure requirements under the Higher Education Act and other relevant regulations and laws.
LSTU 642Higher Education Institutions: Financial Rules and Regulations4.0
This course will introduce students to the many financial rules and regulations that govern institutions of higher learning. This course will expose students to areas such as governance and accountability, charitable gifts and endowments and their attending tax implications as well and issues that arise in the areas of intellectual property and scientific research.
This foundational course will introduce students to various types of financial services institutions in the U.S. and the bodies that regulate them. The course will explore the history of domestic financial regulation and the development and current state of regulation in different industry sectors, including commercial and consumer depository institutions, investment companies, securities firms, private investment funds, and insurance companies.
LSTU 650Legal Regulation of Global Financial Crimes4.0
This course covers a broad scope of global financial crimes and their intersection with the US financial system. Students will learn about a variety of types of financial crimes; what laws and regulations come into play; which regulators enforce them; the consequences for individuals and financial institutions who enable such crimes (whether intentionally or otherwise); the latest data breach issues, laws, and regulations (including GLBA, GDPR, and others); and how current events, politics, and technological advances intersect with these criminal enterprises.
LSTU 651Legal Regulation of Investment Advisers4.0
This course will thoroughly review the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and how it laid the foundation for present day regulation. It will explore the various legal and regulatory schemes that govern investment companies and look at the key policies that drive them.
LSTU 652Legal Regulation of Investment Companies4.0
This course will thoroughly review the Investment Company Act of 1940 and how it laid the foundation for present day regulation. It will explore the various legal and regulatory schemes that govern investment companies and look at the key policies that drive them.
This course will discuss the legal and regulatory frameworks that govern broker-dealers. It will explore the multiple legal and regulatory regimes that govern broker dealers and affiliated institutions.
This course will explore the development of banking law and how that development shapes our current banking regulatory regime. It will also compare the US banking regulatory scheme comprised of state and federal bodies with the more uniform systems operating in many foreign jurisdictions.
This course will introduce students to the development of information privacy law in the United States. It will focus on legal regulations limiting government access to private information as well as laws regulating the ability of third parties to access such information. It will conclude with an introduction to the privacy regulatory regime imposed by the Federal Trade Commission and European Union regulators.
LSTU 661The Law and Strategies Surrounding Cybersecurity4.0
This course will introduce students to the legal and regulatory frameworks governing US cybersecurity. It will examine topics including domestic cybersecurity standards, data breach notification and response, and the creation of compliance programs to manage cybersecurity risks.
LSTU 662European Union Data Privacy and Protection4.0
This course explores the law governing information privacy, data protection, and data security in the European Union. Topics may include an introduction to the EU Data Protection Directive and the new General Data Protection Regulation (2018), the Data Protection Authorities and cybersecurity in Europe. Students will also explore the so-called “Right to Be Forgotten,” and how EU law affects US companies doing business in Europe or with European entities.
This course considers the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable search and seizure, the Fifth Amendment's right to Due Process and against compulsory self-incriminations, and the Sixth Amendment's right to counsel, all with particular emphasis on the application of these constitutional provisions within the context of criminal investigation.
This course will provide students with an in-depth orientation to how the U.S. legal system impacts public administration and public policy. Students will learn how to develop, implement, and assess public policy initiatives that are responsive to the operation and consequences of the law and to address the challenges posed by the contemporary legal and political climate.
LSTU 690Foundations of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging4.0
This course examines, in depth, the discipline and practice of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB). The coursework explores the legal basis from which DEIB developed and the forces of law and society that have guided its evolution. The professor will guide students through critical analysis and iterative dialogue regarding the challenges that DEIB has faced, overcome, and been molded by. By the end of this course, students will be able to explain the purpose and impact of well-designed, well executed DEIB practices on organizations across industries, and develop an evidence-based rationale for continued organizational commitment to DEIB.
LSTU 691Building Sustainable Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging4.0
This course will provide students with an in-depth orientation to the challenges organizations face when developing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) programs and frameworks in the current legal and political climate. Students will learn how to develop, implement, and assess effective DEIB programs that are responsive to the needs of organizations and the challenges posed by the contemporary legal and political climate.
LSTU 692Legal Perspectives on Gender and Sexual Orientation4.0
This course will examine the ways the U.S. legal system has attempted to regulate and define sex, sexuality, gender, and gender presentation in a variety of substantive legal areas, including equal protection, civil rights, and criminal and family law.
This course will cover the laws concerning access of people with disabilities to employment, public accommodation, governmental services and programs, higher education, K-12 education, housing and independent living, and health care/insurance. This course will also look at the historical aspects of disability law and examine the intersection between disability law and other laws through a social justice lens.
This course will explore ethical and civil rights issues relating to artificial intelligence, automated decision-making, and machine learning technologies. From automated hiring practices to predictive policing to facial recognition, this course will discuss how emerging technology creates the potential for discrimination, bias, and invasion of privacy. Students will learn how to spot these risks and integrate new technologies ethically and competently.
LSTU 998Thesis I –Scholarly Legal Writing: Planning and Preparation4.0
This course will introduce you to research and writing techniques commonly used in legal scholarly writing. Specifically, this course will help you identify and develop an original thesis topic and will provide you with the foundation needed to draft, edit, and present an original scholarly work of publishable quality in Thesis II.
LSTU 999Thesis II – Scholarly Legal Writing: Writing, Refining, and Presentation4.0
Following Thesis I, this course will provide faculty-guided oversight and mentorship for the drafting, editing, and presentation of an original piece of publishable-quality legal scholarship akin to a law review article. Students will confer with a faculty advisor weekly, either live or via real-time video conference, submit interim drafts as assigned, and receive meaningful faculty feedback. Students will submit a final scholarly paper and present it to colleagues in a workshop format.
