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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

Law and Society (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 (2/6) 3
LG - 160 Criminal Law   3 LG - 309 Trial by Jury   3
Free Elective 3 PO - 109 Government, Law, and Society  
(Satisfies Expanded Literacies: Social Analysis - 3/6) 
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 Controlled Elective (1)*
3 Expanded Literacies (5/6)  
or Controlled Elective (1)*
3
PO - 103 American Federal Government   3 CM - 206 Public Speaking    3
Free Elective  3 Free Elective   3
Free Elective  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) or Free Elective 3 Expanded Literacies (6/6) or Free Elective  3
LG - 365 Criminal Procedure    3 LG - 355 Law in America   3
AB - 272 The Legal Environment of Business   3 PL - 225 Logic   3
Controlled Elective (2)* 3 Controlled Elective (3)* 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
LG - 330 Constitutional Law   3 LG - 480 Family Values and the Law   3
LG - 362 Senior Seminar: Public Policy and Law   3 Free Elective 3
Controlled Elective (4)* 3 Free Elective 3
Free Elective 3 Free Elective 1
TOTAL CREDITS 15 TOTAL CREDITS 13

TOTAL OVERALL CREDITS: 120

*Controlled Elective (Choose any four of the following: AB 373 ; CJ 352 , CJ 356 , CJ 382 ; CM 210 , CM 380 ; LG 270 , LG 280 , LG 375 , LG 425 , or any LG; or PL 350 )

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 .

Students who major in Law and Society are eligible to earn both an undergraduate degree in Law and Society and a Juris Doctor (JD) in the 3+3 Partnership Program with Duquesne University School of Law. Students will spend the first three years at DeSales University completing their general education requirements and required courses for the Law and Society major. The final three years are spent at Duquesne University School of Law, completing the remaining credits for their bachelor’s degree while taking law school classes.