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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

Human Resource Management (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 MK - 201 Principles of Marketing  or MG - 201 Principles of Management   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
MK - 201 Principles of Marketing  or MG - 201 Principles of Management   3 Free Elective 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
AB - 272 The Legal Environment of Business   3 EC - 210 Principles of Microeconomics   3
EC - 209 Principles of Macroeconomics  
(Satisfies Expanded Literacies: Social Analysis - 5/6) 
3 MG - 220 Data Analysis   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 - 330 Corporate Finance  or FN - 331 Financial Management   3 HR - 320 Employment Law * 3
MG - 305 Human Resource Management   3 MG - 320 Managing Workforce Diversity   3
Free Elective 3 Free Elective 3
TOTAL CREDITS 15 TOTAL CREDITS 15

Year Four

Fall Spring
Expanded Literacies (6/6) or Free Elective 3 Expanded Literacies (6/6) or Free Elective 3
HR - 315 Strategic Compensation and Benefits * 3 HR - 452 Capstone: Real World Scenarios   3
Business Elective 3 Free Elective or MBA Course** 3
HR Elective** 3 Free Elective or MBA Course** 3
Free Elective or MBA Course** 3 MG - 4000 Business Capstone   1
TOTAL CREDITS 15 TOTAL CREDITS 13

TOTAL OVERALL CREDITS: 120

*Human Resource Management courses are offered only in Adult Studies.

**Students should confer with their advisor for HR Elective selection. Three 1-credit HR courses can be combined to satisfy a 3-credit HR elective.

**4 1/2 Year BS/MBA: The Human Resource Management Department offers a Bachelor’s to Masters (4 1/2) 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 .