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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

Finance, Core Finance Track (BS) Sample Plan


Year One

Fall Spring
EN - 103 Composition and Rhetoric I   3 EN - 104 Composition and Rhetoric II   3
PL - 109 Philosophical Thinking   or Expanded Literacies (1/6)  3 PL - 109 Philosophical Thinking  or Expanded Literacies (1/6) 3
MA - 111 Probability and Statistics   (Satisfies Expanded Literacies: 
Mathematical Reasoning - 2/6) or Free Elective
3 MA - 111 Probability and Statistics  (Satisfies Expanded Literacies: 
Mathematical Reasoning - 2/6) or Free Elective
3
UNIV - 101 First-Year Experience   3 MG - 201 Principles of Management   3
FN Elective* (FN 290  Recommended) 3 MK - 201 Principles of Marketing   3
TOTAL CREDITS 15 TOTAL CREDITS 15

Year Two

Fall Spring
TH - 109 Catholic Theology  or Expanded Literacies (3/6)  3 TH - 109 Catholic Theology  or Expanded Literacies (3/6)  3
Expanded Literacies (4/6) or Free Elective 3 Expanded Literacies (4/6) or Free Elective 3
AB - 217 Financial Accounting   3 AB - 219 Managerial Accounting   3
EC - 209 Principles of Macroeconomics  
(Satisfies Expanded Literacies: Social Analysis - 5/6) 
3 EC - 210 Principles of Microeconomics   3
MG - 220 Data Analysis   3 FN - 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 (6/6) or Free Elective 3 Expanded Literacies (6/6) or Free Elective 3
FN - 331 Financial Management   3 AB - 272 The Legal Environment of Business   3
FN - 336 Financial Markets and Institutions   3 FN - 361 Investments and Portfolio Management   3
Free Elective 3 FN Elective* 3
TOTAL CREDITS 15 TOTAL CREDITS 15

Year Four

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)  3
Free Elective or MBA Course** 3 FN - 452 Senior Seminar   3
Free Elective 3 Free Elective or MBA Course** (Winter) 3
Free Elective 3 Free Elective or MBA Course** (Winter) 3
Free Elective 3 MG - 4000 Business Capstone   1
TOTAL CREDITS 15 TOTAL CREDITS 13

TOTAL OVERALL CREDITS: 120

*AB 301  or AB 322   can be used to fullfill one of the two FN Electives (even if used as a major requirement for Accounting dual majors)

**4+1 BS/MBA: The Finance 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.

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 .