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Dr. Yolanda Smith

Professor, Business Management
Science, Technologies, and Business Division

Northern Virginia Community College
362 Bisdorf
3001 North Beauregard Street
Alexandria, Va 22311

Welcome! Explore the interesting courses below and enroll soon. See you in class! We'll have a good time while we learn from each other.

courses taught

BUS 241, Business Law I
3 credits

Law I covers the structure of the court system, contracts, torts, sales, constitutional law, criminal law, agency, and others.

BUS 242, Business Law II
3 credits

The second half of Business Law delves into Bankruptcy, International Law, Cyberlaw, Landlord/Tenant, and more.

LGL 110, Introduction to Law and the Legal Assistant 3 credits

The future legal assistant will learn the structure of the court, civil and criminal procedure, criminal law, torts, contracts, property law, family law and others.



courses taught

BUS 165, Small Business Management
3 credits

This course guides the would-be entrepreneur from the desire to own a business through the development of the idea to the end of the first year of running your business. We will write a business plan.

BUS 100, Introduction to Business
3 credits

As a survey course, BUS 100 looks at e-business, forms of ownership, retailing, manufacturing, banking, credit, and a host of other subjects.



other information

J.D., University of Maryland

M.A., Norwich University

B.S., University of Maryland

I have taught here at NOVA over twenty years. Before that I taught college classes in Mississippi and Alaska and many continuing ed and adult ed classes.

Contact me at:

703-845-6547

ysmith@nvcc.edu

http://www.nvcc.edu
/home/ysmith

Office Hours

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