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Fashion Merchandising and management minor 

Minor

The Fashion Merchandising and Management minor allows non-fashion majors to engage in a condensed study of the retail and manufacturing facet of the fashion industry.

 

 Fashion Merchandising and Management Minor - Course Catalog

 

 

Sample Courses

The Business of Fashion is a survey course that takes an interdisciplinary approach to the fashion business as it relates to cultural, historic, economic, and contemporary influences, giving students a basic understanding of the terms and concepts associated with the fashion and retail industries. The concepts and practices developed are applicable to the many career paths possible within the Fashion Industry

This course focuses on retail mathematics. Topics include simple and compound interest, the time-value of capital, annuities, amortization, sinking funds, bond and investment, business problem-solving and decision making. Other topics include profit, loss, and break-even analysis, pricing, inventory, and merchandise planning. The course introduces basic theories of statistics.