Associate of Arts in Retailing and Fashion Consumer Science - with a transfer to 4-year university

Jump start your retail management or fashion merchandising career by completing this degree and then transferring to a university retailing/merchandising degree or related program emphasizing various principles employed to manage the retail supply chain in order to satisfy consumers’ needs. Complete this program by taking classes in a combination of weekdays and evenings.

What can I do with this degree?

Career Options: Retail management personnel examines retail, marketing, fashion, and management principles that are applied across a broad spectrum of U.S. and global retail businesses including store, catalog, Internet, and services firms and other businesses that support these diverse retailers.

Academic Options: Transfer to the University of Arizona or another school to pursue a degree in retailing/merchandising or a related degree.

Program Requirements

Arizona General Education Curriculum Requirements (AGEC-B)

This section lists general education requirements that are not fulfilled by core or support courses.

• English Composition
• Humanities and Fine Arts: Humanities
• Biological and Physical Sciences
• Social and Behavioral Sciences

Required Core Courses

• Improving Customer Service Quality
• Fashion Merchandising
• Fashion Merchandising Planning and Control

Required Support Courses

• Financial Accounting
• Managerial Accounting
• Basic Design
• eCommerce
• Statistical Methods in Economics and Business
• Computer Applications for Business
• Microeconomic Principles
• Macroeconomic Principles
• Finite Mathematics
• Topics in Calculus
• Electives