Aug 27, 2025  
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

Philosophy (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   3 Expanded Literacies (1/6) 3
UNIV - 101 First-Year Experience   3 Expanded Literacies (2/6) 3
Free Elective 3 Any PL course 1  3
Free Elective 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)   3 Expanded Literacies (5/6)   3
Any PL Course 2 (Satisfies Lens 2) or Free Elective 3 Any PL Course 2 (Satisfies Lens 2) or Free Elective   3
Lens 1 or Free Elective  3 PL - 225 Logic   3
Free Elective 3 Lens 1 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 3 or Free Elective 3 Lens 3 or Free Elective 3
Expanded Literacies (6/6) or Free Elective 3 Expanded Literacies (6/6) or Free Elective 3
Any PL Course 3 or Free Elective  3 Any PL Course 3 or Free Elective 3
Free Elective 3 Free Elective 3
PL Controlled Elective*  3 PL Controlled Elective*  3
TOTAL CREDITS 15 TOTAL CREDITS 15

Year Four

Fall Spring
Catholicism in Dialogue  3 PL/TH - 451 Integrating Seminar in Theology   3
Free Elective 3 Free Elective 3
Free Elective 3 Free Elective  3
Free Elective  3 Free Elective 3
Free Elective 3 Free Elective 1
TOTAL CREDITS 15 TOTAL CREDITS 13

TOTAL OVERALL CREDITS: 120

*Controlled Electives - Choose any three of the following: PL 209 PL 340 PL 345 PL 350 PL 355 PL 360 PL 370 PL 375 PL 380 PL 390 ,PL 395 PL 400 PL 410 PL 438 PL 475 PL 476 PL 477 PL 478 PL 479 , or PL 499 .

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 .