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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

Economics, Data Analytics/AI Track (BS) Sample Plan


Year One

Fall Spring
EN - 103 Composition and Rhetoric I   3 EN - 104 Composition and Rhetoric II   3
MA - 111 Probability and Statistics  
(Satisfies Expanded Literacies: Mathematical Reasoning - 1/6) 
3 PL - 109 Philosophical Thinking  or Expanded Literacies (2/6)  3
PL - 109 Philosophical Thinking  or Expanded Literacies (2/6)  3 MG - 201 Principles of Management   3
UNIV - 101 First-Year Experience    3 MK - 201 Principles of Marketing    3
EC - 112 Economics of Public Issues 
(Satisfies Expanded Literacies: Social Analysis - 3/6) 
3 MG - 220 Data Analysis * 3
TOTAL CREDITS 15 TOTAL CREDITS 15

Year Two

Fall Spring
TH - 109 Catholic Theology  or Free Elective 3 TH - 109 Catholic Theology  or Free Elective 3
Expanded Literacies (4/6) or Free Elective  3 Expanded Literacies (4/6) or Free Elective  3
AB - 217 Financial Accounting   3 CS - 260 Databases & Data Visualization    3
EC - 209 Principles of Macroeconomics   3 EC - 210 Principles of Microeconomics   3
BA - 226 Introduction to Data Analytics and AI   3 EC - 220 Money and Banking    3
UNIV - 110 Being Well  or FN - 100 Financial Literacy   1 UNIV - 110 Being Well  or FN - 100 Financial Literacy   1
TOTAL CREDITS 16 TOTAL CREDITS 16

Year Three

Fall Spring
Lens 1, 2, or 3 (1/3) 3 Lens 1, 2, or 3 (2/3) 3
Expanded Literacies (5/6)  3 Expanded Literacies (6/6) 3
EC - 336 Financial Markets and Institutions   3 AB - 272 The Legal Environment of Business   3
Free Elective 3 EC - 400 Global Economic Issues  **  3
Free Elective 3 BA - 353 Data Mining and Machine Learning   3
TOTAL CREDITS 15 TOTAL CREDITS 15

Year Three

Fall Spring
Catholicism in Dialogue or Lens 1, 2, or 3 (3/3) 3 Catholicism in Dialogue or Lens 1, 2, or 3 (3/3)  
EC - 452 Senior Seminar in Economics   3 AB - 345 Data Analytics for Accounting and Finance  or MK 410    
Economics Elective* 3 Economics Elective*  
BA - 452 Applied AI Platforms and Projects   3 Free Elective  
Free Elective 3 MG - 4000 Business Capstone    
TOTAL CREDITS 15 TOTAL CREDITS 13

TOTAL OVERALL CREDITS: 120

+MG 220 is a prerequisite for BA 226
*Economics Elective - Choose two EC courses at the 200-level or higher; BA 353 EC 454 EC 455 EC 499 ; or PS 205  may also be used.

**EC 400 cannot satisfy the Connections Curriclum Cultural Awareness requirement for Economics majors.

For more information about the requirements in our general education Connections Curriculum, which are included in the sample plan above, please see I. General Education (Connections Curriculum), which can be found in The Undergraduate Program .

***4+1 BS/MBA: The Economics Department offers a Bachelor’s to Masters (4+1) program that enables qualifying students to register for MBA courses during their senior year. For more information, see the DeSales University Graduate Catalog and consult with the MBA Program Director.