If you haven’t tried a Law Shelf course yet, you should know that they are free for high school credit! If you pay for and pass the final, your teen earns NCCRS college credit. They are allowing HS4CC members to stack our HS4CC code on top of their 5 or 10-course bundles!
Law Shelf is evaluated for college credit by NCCRS. In general, NCCRS is not as well accepted as other forms of college credit, and so we recommend looking at this as high school credit with the potential for college credit if your teen attends one of their partner colleges.
They are offering single courses, 5-course bundles, and 10-course bundle. The rate is $20 per credit. If you make a purchase, stack our code HS4CC with that and you’ll get a course for free! If you decide not to pursue the college credit option, there is no cost at all.
In every state, the homeschool administrator or parent awards the high school credit and the future college determines if the college credits are accepted and how they apply.
In my opinion, your student can work on these courses 1 at a time in the sequence given and complete the entire bundle over the course of 1 school year. Motivated students may move more quickly.
About this Bundle
I’ve carefully reviewed every Law Shelf course and selected 10 courses that work perfectly together to give your teen a solid foundation in skills needed to operate their own successful business. For some students, this bundle may also serve as a springboard to an interest in business law or accounting. You can, of course, mix and match any of their courses to create your own bundles too.
Use code HS4CC at checkout to use your BOGO coupon and get your second course free.
10-courses for Future Entrepreneurs
| # | Course | Brief Description | College Credit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BUS-101: Business Organizations | In this course, we’ll introduce you to the wide array of business forms, discuss how to create specific business entities, and explain the benefits and pitfalls of each type of business organization. This is an introductory level course and no prior experience or knowledge of business law is necessary. | 3 |
| 2 | CON-101: Basics of Contract Law | This is an introductory level course and no prior knowledge of law or contracts is required. This course is a survey of basic contract law across a variety of areas. The first three modules cover the nature of contracts and the basic building blocks of contracts: offer, acceptance and consideration. The nuances of each element are considered, and the course focuses on rules such as the mirror image rule, the mailbox rule, mutuality of consideration and promissory estoppel. We also focus on the Uniform Commercial Code and its rules for contracts for the sale of goods. | 3 |
| 3 | EMP-101: Employment and Employment Benefits | This is an introductory level course and no prior experience or knowledge of employment law is required. The course begins with the hiring process, from creating legal job advertisements to applications and interviews. We also look at the factors that employers may and may not consider in the candidate selection process and on privacy issues that come into play. | 3 |
| 4 | ACC-101: Basics of Accounting | This course starts with explanations of the basic financial accounting documents: the balance sheet, the income statement and other financial statements. We’ll go over basic bookkeeping rules and where various information is entered and kept. | 3 |
| 5 | IPL-201: Copyright Law | In this course, we’ll introduce you to copyrights and copyright protection and focus on enforcement of copyrights and defenses to that enforcement. This is an introductory level course and no prior knowledge in intellectual property law is required. This course is divided into two sections. The first deals with the types of works that can be copyrighted and how one achieves copyright protection. The second looks at the types of actions can be taken to defend copyrights and possible defenses to copyright actions. | 3 |
| 6 | IPL-401: Patent Law | This course presents a comprehensive overview of patents, including their role in the landscape of intellectual property, patent requirements, patent procedure and enforcement. This is an introductory level course and no prior knowledge or experience in law or intellectual property is required. | 3 |
| 7 | IPL-402: Trademarks | This course focuses on the legal mechanisms to protect distinctive logos, slogans and other visual marks associated with products from unauthorized use by other parties. This is an introductory level course and no prior knowledge of intellectual property law or law in general is required. | 3 |
| 8 | COM-303: Cyber Law | This course focuses on a variety of legal topics as they relate to online communications, agreements and transactions. While this is an introductory-level course, a little background in contract, tort and freedom of speech law is recommended as the course touches on all these areas but does not have the time to comprehensively introduce each area of law. | 3 |
| 9 | COM-304: E-Commerce Regulation | This course focuses on regulatory steps to protect consumers in the online marketplace. This is a fast-moving field and laws and regulations are constantly being updated and refined. This is an intermediate-level course and draws on the basics of several other legal fields, such as contracts, the right to privacy, local taxation and administrative law. Still, it can be valuable even if you have no legal background. | 3 |
| 10 | COM-301: Sales of Goods | This course comprehensively covers contracts for the sale of goods under Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code. This is an intermediate level course and it is recommended that people without education or experience in contracts first take LawShelf’s video-course on the Basics of Contract Law to prepare for this one. | 3 |
