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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

Pharmaceutical Marketing (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
UNIV - 101 First-Year Experience    3 EC - 112 Economics of Public Issues *
(Satisfies Expanded Literacies: Social  Analysis - 3/6)
3
MA - 111 Probability and Statistics   
(Satisfies Expanded Literacies:Mathematical Reasoning - 2/6)
or MK - 201 Principles of Marketing  
3 MA - 111 Probability and Statistics   
(Satisfies Expanded Literacies:Mathematical Reasoning - 2/6)
or MK - 201 Principles of Marketing  
3
Free Elective  3 CH - 107 Physiological Chemistry  + CH 107L
(Satisfies Expanded Literacies: Scientific Inquiry - 4/6)  
5
TOTAL CREDITS 15 TOTAL CREDITS 17

YEAR TWO

Fall Spring
TH - 109 Catholic Theology  or Expanded Literacies (5/6) 3 TH - 109 Catholic Theology  or Expanded Literacies (5/6) 3
Expanded Literacies (6/6)  3 AB - 272 The Legal Environment of Business   3
AB - 217 Financial Accounting   3 BI - 264 Anatomy & Physiology II  + BI 264L 3
BI - 263 Anatomy and Physiology I  + BI 263L 4 MG - 220 Data Analysis   3
MG - 201 Principles of Management   3 MK - 220 Consumer Behavior   4
UNIV - 110 Being Well  or FN - 100 Financial Literacy    1 UNIV - 110 Being Well  or FN - 100 Financial Literacy    1
TOTAL CREDITS 17 TOTAL CREDITS 17

YEAR THREE

Fall Spring
Lens 1, 2, or 3 (1/3)  3 MK - 215 Sales and Sales Management   3
Lens 1, 2, or 3 (2/3)  3 MK - 330 Health Care Marketing   3
MK - 410 Marketing Research   3 PS - 381 Psychopharmacology   3
Free Elective 3 Business 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
Free Elective  
(MK - 454 Marketing Internship  recommended) 
3 MG - 452 Business Policy Formulation    3
Free Elective or MBA Course** 3 Free Elective 3
Free Elective or MBA course** 3 Free Elective or MBA course** 3
    MG - 4000 Business Capstone   1
TOTAL CREDITS 12 TOTAL CREDITS 13

TOTAL OVERALL CREDITS: 121

*If a student has completed EC 209  and EC 210 , these will substitute for EC 112.

**Recommended Business/Free Electives: HCA 200 , MG 233 , MK 315 , MK 350 , MK 454 , and SU 301 .

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 BS/MBA: The Pharmaceutical Marketing 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.