Retail Management, BS

Degree Requirements

120 Credits Required

Departmental/Program Major Course Requirements (39-41 credits)

• CSR 10000 - Introduction To CSR
• CSR 20000 - Professional Development In Consumer Science
• CSR 20900 - Introduction To Retail Management
• CSR 21500 - Textile Industry
• CSR 28200 - Customer Relations Management
• CSR 30900 - Leadership Strategies
• CSR 32300 - Visual Merchandising
• CSR 33100 - Consumer Behavior
• CSR 33200 - Cross-Cultural Marketing And International Retailing
• CSR 34200 - Personal Finance
• CSR 34400 - Fundamentals Of Negotiations
• CSR 40100 - Buying Of Merchandise
• CSR 40400 - Strategic Issues For Sales And Retailing
• CSR 40600 - E-Retailing

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• CSR 30000 - Field Experience In Retail Management or
• CSR 39800 - International Special Topics

Other Departmental/Program Course Requirements (56-63 credits)

• AGEC 33100 - Principles Of Selling In Agricultural Business
• COM 11400 - Fundamentals Of Speech Communication (satisfies Oral Communication for core)
• COM 25600 - Introduction To Advertising
• COM 32500 - Interviewing: Principles And Practice
• Quantitative Reasoning - Credit Hours: 3.00 (MA 15555 or any course Quant Reasoning list EXCEPT MA 13800 or PHIL 15000)
• MGMT 32300 - Principles Of Marketing
• MGMT 45500 - Legal Background For Business I
• PSY 12000 - Elementary Psychology (satisfies Human Cultures Behavioral/Social Science for core)
• SOC 10000 - Introductory Sociology

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• CS 11000 - Introduction To Computers or
• CNIT 13600 - Personal Computing Technology And Applications or
• CS 23500 - Introduction To Organizational Computing

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• ECON 21000 - Principles Of Economics or
• ECON 25100 - Microeconomics or
• ECON 25200 - Macroeconomics or
• AGEC 21700 - Economics

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• ENGL 10600 - First-Year Composition (satisfies Written Communication Core and Information Literacy for core) or
• ENGL 10800 - Accelerated First-Year Composition (satisfies Written Communication Core and Information Literacy for core)

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• ENGL 42000 - Business Writing or
• ENGL 42100 - Technical Writing or
• SPAN 42400 - Business Spanish

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• HTM 14100 - Financial Accounting For The Service Industries or
• MGMT 20000 - Introductory Accounting

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• STAT 11300 - Statistics And Society (satisfies Science, Technology, & Society for core) or
• STAT 22500 - Introduction To Probability Models or
• STAT 30100 - Elementary Statistical Methods or
• IT 34200 - Introduction To Statistical Quality

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• Human Cultures Humanities - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Science - Credit Hours: 2.00 - 4.00
• Science - Credit Hours: 2.00 - 4.00
• Science, Technology & Society - Credit Hours: 1.00-3.00
• International Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00

Electives (16-25 credits)

Additional Requirements

Retail Management Selective List  

Optional Concentration Requirements

Apparel Design and Technology Concentration for Retail Management   

University Core Requirements

• Human Cultures Humanities
• Human Cultures Behavioral/Social Science
• Information Literacy
• Science #1
• Science #2
• Science, Technology, and Society
• Written Communication
• Oral Communication
• Quantitative Reasoning

For a complete listing of course selectives, visit the Provost’s Website.

Program Requirements

Notes

• A student may elect the Pass / Not-Pass option for elective courses only. Students may elect to take University Core Curriculum courses Pass / Not-Pass; however, some major Plans of Study require courses that also fulfill UCC foundational outcomes. In such cases, students may not elect the Pass / Not-Pass option.  A maximum of 24 credits of elective courses under the Pass / Not-pass grading option can be used toward graduation requirements. For further information, students should refer to the College of Health and Human Sciences Pass / Not-Pass Policy.
• Field Experience: Students may opt for the Study Abroad Internship Program in Dublin, London, or Sydney (6 credits) or complete the Interns for Indiana Internship (3 credits) to fulfill this requirement.
• Students must complete 32 credit hours of Purdue coursework at the 30000 level or above for graduation.
• 2.0 GPA required for graduation.

Foreign Language Courses

Foreign Language proficiency requirements vary by program. 

For acceptable languages and proficiency levels, see your advisor: American Sign Language, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, (ancient) Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish

Critical Course

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