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Legal Principles and Economics

Module name (EN):
Name of module in study programme. It should be precise and clear.
Legal Principles and Economics
Degree programme:
Study Programme with validity of corresponding study regulations containing this module.
Industrial Engineering / Production Management, Bachelor, ASPO 01.10.2021
Module code: DBWI-370
SAP-Submodule-No.:
The exam administration creates a SAP-Submodule-No for every exam type in every module. The SAP-Submodule-No is equal for the same module in different study programs.
P740-0037
Hours per semester week / Teaching method:
The count of hours per week is a combination of lecture (V for German Vorlesung), exercise (U for Übung), practice (P) oder project (PA). For example a course of the form 2V+2U has 2 hours of lecture and 2 hours of exercise per week.
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ECTS credits:
European Credit Transfer System. Points for successful completion of a course. Each ECTS point represents a workload of 30 hours.
6
Academic Year: 3
Mandatory course: yes
Language of instruction:
German
Assessment:
Graded exam (Duration 180 min., 100 pts.)
The exam will be written in the 6th semester (Block 6A) according to the examination schedule (Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen/Produktionsmanagement, Bachelor, ASPO October 1, 2021).
The exam will be written in the 4th semester (Block 4A) according to the examination schedule (Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen/Produktionsmanagement, Bachelor, ASPO October 1, 2022).
 
Distribution:
- 67 pts. (120 min) on “Legal Basics”
- 33 pts. (60 min) on “Economics”
 
Prerequisites for receiving credits:
The achievement of at least 40 out of 100 points in the module exam.
The grade corresponds to the student’s performance in the module exam and is shown as a decimal grade according to the htw saar grading scheme.


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Applicability / Curricular relevance:
All study programs (with year of the version of study regulations) containing the course.

DBWI-370 (P740-0037) Industrial Engineering / Production Management, Bachelor, ASPO 01.10.2022 , study year 2, mandatory course
DBWI-370 (P740-0037) Industrial Engineering / Production Management, Bachelor, ASPO 01.10.2021 , study year 3, mandatory course
Workload:
Workload of student for successfully completing the course. Each ECTS credit represents 30 working hours. These are the combined effort of face-to-face time, post-processing the subject of the lecture, exercises and preparation for the exam.

The total workload is distributed on the semester (01.04.-30.09. during the summer term, 01.10.-31.03. during the winter term).
The total student study time for this course is 180 hours.
Recommended prerequisites (modules):
None.
Recommended as prerequisite for:
Module coordinator:
Prof. Dr. Andreas Metz
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Andreas Metz

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Learning outcomes:
 
After successfully completing this module students will, students will be familiar with the principles of civil, labor, commercial, consumer protection and internet law, understand simple legal contexts and be able to solve simple legal problems independently. Furthermore, they will be able to recognize whether a legal issue can be resolved independently within the scope of their acquired skills or whether the help of an internal or external legal expert is required.
 
Students will be familiar with the principles of economic activity and economic interrelationships and will be able to assess their impact on their own business. They will understand how markets work, know the characteristics of the main market forms and the interplay between price, supply and demand. They will also be familiar with the most important aspects of national accounting and economic, business cycle and monetary policy.
 
The module “Legal Principles and Economics” serves to expand and strengthen professional knowledge and understanding (broadening of knowledge) and instrumental skills. Together with the degree program’s scientific-technical and the business administration modules, students will achieve the competence to consider and solve larger interdisciplinary problems and tasks of medium complexity holistically, and to independently design further learning processes.


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Module content:
 
Legal Basics
• Civil law
  o General principles
  o Law of obligations
    - Consumer protection: the shaping of legal obligations through general terms and conditions, consumer contracts, product liability law
    - Internet law: contracts for Internet use, liability of service providers, contracts via the Internet, cybermoney, data protection
    - Property law
• Labor law: employment relationship (justification, defects, rights, obligations) and its termination (facts, protection against dismissal)
• Commerical law: commercial status, commercial powers of attorney, commercial transactions
 
Economics
• Microeconomics – steering the economic process through market prices: theory of supply and demand, elasticities, markets and market forms, market equilibrium and pricing, market imbalances and market regulation, market failure.
• Macroeconomics – national accounts: circular flow of income, national income and its types of calculation, economic cycles
• Economic, business cycle and monetary policy


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Teaching methods/Media:
Lectures: Lecture, question-and-answer and impulse-based teaching, class discussion, especially for a holistic approach to a problem, case study work in groups

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Recommended or required reading:
 
Legal Basics
• Ch. Hirsch: Der Allgemeine Teil des BGB. Systematisches Lehrbuch mit zahlreichen Fällen und Beispielen, Köln (u.a.), Heymanns
• H. Brox, W-D. Walker: Besonderes Schuldrecht. Mit Fällen und Aufbauschemata, München, Beck
• H. Eisenmann, H. Gnauk, J. Quittnat: Rechtsfälle aus dem Wirtschaftsprivatrecht, Heidelberg, Müller
• Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch; Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag; München
• M. Köhler, H.-W. Arndt, Th. Fetzer: Recht des Internet; C. F. Müller Verlag; Heidel-berg/München u. a.
• H. Redeker: IT-Recht; Beck Verlag; München
• A. Wien: Internetrecht; Gabler Verlag; Wiesbaden
• E. Führich: Wirtschaftsprivatrecht, München, Vahlen
• E. Klunzinger: Grundzüge des Handelsrechts, München, Vahlen
• A. Junker: Grundkurs Arbeitsrecht, München, Beck
• L. Michalski: Arbeitsrecht, Heidelberg (u.a.), Müller
 
Volkswirtschaftslehre
• J. Stenger: Volkswirtschaftslehre Kompakt. Grundlagen der VWL in Aufgaben und Lösungen, Saarbrücken
• W. Koch, Ch. Czogalla: Grundlagen der Wirtschaftspolitik, Stuttgart
• P. A. Samuelson, W. D. Nordhaus: Volkswirtschaftslehre. Das internationale Standardwerk der Makro- und Mikroökonomie, Landsberg am Lech, mi-Fachverl.


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