COURSES HANDBOOK 2014This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2014.Information for the previous year's courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2013.

AREA: Curtin Law School

CREDITS: 25.0

CONTACT HOURS: 3.0

TUITION

PATTERNS:

The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide

only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.

LECTURE: 1 x 1.5 Hours Weekly

TUTORIAL: 1 x 1.5 Hours Weekly

EQUIVALENT(S): 300676 (v.4) BLW21 Company Law for Business or any previous version

ANTI

REQUISITE(S):

2844 (v.6) Law (Corporation) 224 or any previous version

PREREQUISITE(S): 11011 (v.5) Business Law 100 or any previous version

UNIT

REFERENCES,

TEXTS,

OUTCOMES AND

ASSESSMENT

DETAILS:

The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit

outline.

SYLLABUS: The unit aims to provide students with a solid foundation of fundamental principles of company law. Topics

include: the context of company law, the role and functions of the Australian Securities and Investments

Commission, types of business structures, incorporation and registration, the doctrine of legal personality,

corporate fund raising and share capital, legal rules relating to shares and dividends, the internal

management of companies, powers and duties of various stakeholders, rights and remedies of members,

company insolvency and deregistration.

FIELD OF

EDUCATION:

090900 Law (Narrow Grouping)

RESULT TYPE: Grade/Mark

10841 (v.4) Company Law for Business 266

YEAR LOCATION PERIOD INTERNAL PARTIALLY

ONLINE

INTERNAL

AREA

EXTERNAL

CENTRAL

EXTERNAL

FULLY

ONLINE

2014 Bentley Campus Summer School Y

2014 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y

2014 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y

2014 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y

2014 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y

2014 Sydney Campus Trimester 1A Y

2014 Sydney Campus Trimester 2A Y

Availability

Curtin University

2014 Sydney Campus Trimester 3A Y

2014 Charles Telfair Inst Mauritius Semester 1 Y

2014 Miri Sarawak Campus Summer School Y

2014 Miri Sarawak Campus Semester 1 Y

2014 Miri Sarawak Campus Semester 2 Y

2014 Singapore Campus Trimester 1A Y

2014 Singapore Campus Trimester 2A Y

2014 Singapore Campus Trimester 3A Y

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing

participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central

External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the

course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

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