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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

Political Science, Pre-Law Track (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 PO - 109 Government, Law, and Society 
(Satisfies Expanded Literacies: Social Analysis - 2/6)
3
EC - 209 Principles of Macroeconomics   3 Controlled Political Science Elective*  3
PO - 103 American Federal Government   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 Controlled 
Political Science Elective*
3 Expanded Literacies (4/6) or Controlled 
Political Science Elective*
3
Expanded Literacies (5/6) or Free Elective 3 Expanded Literacies (5/6) or Free Elective   3
PO - 201 Classical Political Thought 
(Satisfies Expanded Literacies: Historical Analysis - 6/6) 
3 PO - 202 Modern Political Thought     3
PO - 255 President and Congress    3 PO - 256 Social Justice Policy    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
PO - 330 Constitutional Law   3 CJ - 365 Criminal Procedure   3
Controlled Political Science Elective* 3 LG - 355 Law in America   3
Free Elective 3 Free 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
CJ - 480 Family Values and the Law   3 Free Elective 3
PO - 362 Senior Seminar: Public Policy and Law    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

*For Controlled Political Science Electives - Choose one of: LG 309 , PO 108 , PO 317 PO 270 , or PO 280 .

**For Controlled Electives - Choose one of: MA 111 , PS 205 , or CJ 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 .