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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

International Business (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 Free Elective 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 MK - 201 Principles of Marketing  or MG - 201 Principles of Management   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  or Free Elective 3 MG - 220 Data Analysis  or 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) or Free Elective 3 Expanded Literacies (6/6) or Free Elective 3
AB - 272 The Legal Environment of Business   3 MK - 340 International Marketing   3
FN - 330 Corporate Finance  or FN - 331 Financial Management     SU - 305 Transportation Management   3
MG - 340 International Business    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
Business Elective*  1 EC - 400 Global Economic Issues **                     3
MG - 4000 Business Capstone   3 MG - 452 Business Policy Formulation   3
Business Elective* 3 Free Elective or MBA course* 3
Free Elective or MBA Course** 3 Free Elective or MBA course* 3
TOTAL CREDITS 13 TOTAL CREDITS 15

TOTAL OVERALL CREDITS: 120

* Any upper-level Business course or approved internship. MI 205 , MG 306  (ESDES/Lyon) is strenuously recommended as a Business elective.

(Recommended free electives: HI 335 , PO 108 , SS 430 , any study abroad course(s); as well as courses in non-US History, non-US politics, and international relations)

**EC 400 cannot satisfy the Connections Curriculum Cultural Awareness requirement for International Business 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 year BS/MBA: The International Business Department offers a Bachelor’s to Masters (4+1 year) 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.