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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

Homeland Security (BA) 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
UNIV - 101 First-Year Experience   3 Expanded Literacies (3/6) 3
HS - 150 Introduction to Homeland Security   3 CJ - 109 Crime and Society   3
PO - 103 American Federal Government   
(Satisfies Expanded Literacies: Social Analysis - 2/6)
3 HS - 155 Introduction to Emergency Management   3
TOTAL CREDITS 15 TOTAL CREDITS 15

Year Two

Fall Spring
TH - 109 Catholic Theology  
or Expanded Literacies (4/6) 
3 TH - 109 Catholic Theology   
or Expanded Literacies (4/6)
3
Expanded Literacies (5/6)  
or Free Elective
3 Expanded Literacies (5/6)  
or Free Elective
3
CJ - 100 Cybercrime   3 HS - 374 Terrorism and Counterterrorism   3
CJ - 160 Criminal Law   3 Controlled Elective (1)* 3
CJ - 260 Law Enforcement   3 Free Elective 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)  3 HS - 380 Intelligence and Security  or HS - 275 Topics in Homeland Security   3
HS - 380 Intelligence and Security  or HS - 275 Topics in Homeland Security   3 Controlled Elective (2)* 3
Free Elective 3 Free Elective 3
Free Elective 3 Free 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
HS - 410 Disaster Preparedness   3 HS - 385 Infrastructure Protection   3
HS - 453 Senior Seminar   3 Free Elective or MAHS Course** 3
Controlled Elective (3)* 3 Free Elective or MAHS Course** 3
Free Elective or MAHS Course** 3 Free Elective  
TOTAL CREDITS 15 TOTAL CREDITS 12

TOTAL OVERALL CREDITS: 120

*Controlled Electives - Choose any three of the following courses: PS 109 , PS 295 , PS 300 ; PO 313 , PO 330 ; SO 203 ; CJ 270 , CJ 349 , CJ 352 ; HS 378 , HS 360 , HS 400  or any HS course

**5-year BA/MAHS: The Homeland Security Department offers a Bachelor’s to Masters (4+1) program that enables qualifying students to register for MAHS courses during their senior year. For more information, see the DeSales University Graduate Catalog and consult with the MAHS 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 .