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online Service Contracts, Franchise Agreements and Legal Issues course at Canyon College

COURSE SYLLABUS: Service Contracts, Franchise Agreements & Legal Issues


Course Title:
Department:
Instructor: 		HT489 - Service Contracts, Franchise Agreements & Legal Issues
Hospitality
Nancy Farias, Juris Doctorate, MS, BA Email | Vita


Text: Online Bookstore

Understanding Hospitality Law. Jeffries, Jack P. et al. Educational Institute:
American Hotel & Lodging Association, Fourth Edition, 2001. ISBN: 0866122273.

Course Description:
In this course, students will learn the basic legal concepts in order to understand potential legal pitfalls and to anticipate and forestall problems involved in hospitality law.

Course requirements:
The final grade will be based on a comprehensive reading and answering of all Review Questions as
well as quiz questions on a weekly basis (70%) and on a Final Examination (30%) due at the end
of the class. The Review Questions MUST be written out and submitted, they are not simply for “your review.”

Focus of the class:
We will discuss each chapter in the following order. Please answer all questions. Although no page
limitation is required, please double-space all submissions.

Readings and Assignments:
Week 1
Chapter 1 – The Common Law Basis for Laws Governing the Hotelkeeper
Assignment: Review Question # 4

Chapter 2- – The Hotelkeeper and the Law of Contracts
Assignment: Review Question # 1

Chapter 3 –The Hotelkeeper and the Laws of Torts and Negligence
Assignment: Review Question # 3

Week 2
Chapter 4 – The Hotel’s Duty to Receive Guests and Its Right to Refuse Guests
Assignment: Review Question # 1

Chapter 5 – Guest Reservations
Assignment: Review Question # 4

Chapter 6 – Convention and Group Contracts with the Hotel
Assignment: Review Question # 4

Chapter 7 – The Guest’s Right to Privacy
Assignment: Review Question # 1

Week 3
Chapter 8 – The Hotel’s Right to Evict a Guest, Tenant, Restaurant Patron, or Others
Assignment: Review Question # 5

Chapter 9 – Americans with Disabilities Act – Public Accommodations
Assignment: Review Question # 2

Chapter 10 – The Hotel’s Duty to Protect Guests Assignment: Review Question # 1 Chapter 11 – The Hotel’s Liability Regarding Guest’s Property Assignment: Review Question # 4

Week 4
Chapter 12 – The Hotel’s Liability for Loss of Property of Non-Guests Assignment: Review Question # 3 Chapter 13 – Safekeeping Facilities Assignment: Review Question # 2 Chapter 14 – Frauds Committed Against Hotels and Crimes of Trespass Assignment: Review Question #3
Week 5

Chapter 15 – Deceased Guests
Assignment: Review Question # 3

Chapter 16 – General Laws Regarding Food
Assignment: Review Question # 8

Chapter 17 – Other Laws Relating to Food Service
Assignment: Review Question # 3

Chapter 18 – State Laws Relating to Alcoholic Beverages
Assignment: Review Question # 10

Week 6

Chapter 19 – Wage and Hour Laws Applicable to Hotel Employees
Assignment: Review Question # 2

Chapter 20 – The Family and Medical Leave Act
Assignment: Review Question # 20

Chapter 21 – Laws Against Discrimination in Employment
Assignment: Review Question # 1

Week 7

Chapter 22 – Use of Lie Detector Tests by Hotel Management
Assignment: Review Question # 4

Chapter 23 – National Labor Relations Act
Assignment: Review Question # 1

Chapter 24 – Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986
Assignment: Review Question # 2
Week 8
Chapter 25 – Federal Social Security, Unemployment Insurance, and Workers’ Compensation
Assignment: Review Question # 2

Chapter 26 – Federal Income Tax: Withholding and Reporting Requirements
Assignment: Review Question # 2

Assignment Schedule:
Assignments must be completed on a weekly basis as set forth above. Additionally each week, each chapter will have a corresponding quiz that you must submit the answers to as well. Please be sure to number each answer. Lastly, please submit all assignments by Sunday night of each week.
Academic Dishonesty:
Any form of academic dishonestly is regarded as a very serious violation of college regulations. Any student suspected of engaged in such action will be subject to the full set of procedures set forth by the college.