Fashion and Home Furnishings Merchandising

Program Summary
A. General Education (35-41 hours)

See Graduation from the University for the University General Education Program requirements. Students who have completed one year of American History in high school are exempted from the six credit-hour American Heritage General Education Program requirement; otherwise, students will have to meet the American Heritage requirement.

B. Coordinated Study (39 hours)
Family and Consumer Sciences Core (21 hours)
CSED 2101 Family in Global Perspective
CSED 3104 Home Furnishings and Related Arts
CSED 3302 Child and Adolescent Development
CSED 4106 Trends and Issues in the Profession
CSED 4300 Family Resource Management
CSED 4405 Textiles
CSED 4600 Senior Seminar in Merchandising (final semester)

C. Specialty Area: Students choose a specialty in either Fashion Merchandising or Home Furnishing Merchandising (15-18 hours)
Fashion Merchandising
CSED 2005 Introduction to Fashion Merchandising
CSED 2106 Visual Merchandising
CSED 3206 Merchandising Systems
CSED 4205 Behavioral Science Aspects of Clothing
CSED 4215 Readings in Clothing and Textiles and
CSED 4216 Readings in Fashion Merchandising

Home Furnishings
CSED 2004 Technical Skills for Home Furnishings
CSED 2101 Family in Global Perspective
CSED 2106 Visual Merchandising
CSED 3204 Residential Kitchen Planning
CSED 3206 Merchandising Systems
CSED 4204 Furnishings Problems and Presentations
CSED 4304 Trends in Housing and Home Furnishings

D. Thematic Studies (6 hours)
CSED 4205 Behavioral Science Aspects of Clothing
CSED 4300 Family Resource Management
CSED 4304 Trends in Housing and Home Furnishings
UNIV 3500-3599
UNIV 4500-4599

E. Internship in Merchandising or Marketing-Related Business (6 hours)
UNIV 4110 (Corequisite CSED 4600 and UNIV 4995) – Final semester
F. Senior Project (3 hours)
UNIV 4995 Senior Project (completed in final semester)
G. Electives – may be chosen to bring the total number of hours to 120 with a minimum of 42 upper-division hours.

H. Marketing Minor (24 hours) (Junior level classification required for all 3000 to 4000-level courses)
ACCT 2010 Fundamentals of Accounting I
ECON 2120 Introduction to Microeconomics
MKTG 3010 Principles of Marketing
MKTG 3012 Consumer Behavior
MKTG 3140 Advertising and Sales Promotion
MKTG 3610 Introduction to Supply Chain Management
MKTG elective (3000 – 4000 level)
MKTG elective (3000 – 4000 level)
Students will not be permitted to use CSED 2101 in both the General Education and Professional core categories.