Retail Management - Associate of Arts

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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 exclusively on weekdays or in a combination of day, evening and weekend classes.

What can I do with this degree?
Career Options: Retail management personnel examine 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 a 4-year university to pursue a degree in retailing/merchandising or a related degree.

Locations: Downtown Campus

Department/Contact Information:
Division Dean: 206-7046
Lead Faculty: 206-7206

PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS

Arizona General Education Curriculum Requirements (AGEC-B) This section lists general education requirements that are not fulfilled by core or support courses.*
Reading Requirement: complete this requirement before enrolling in general education courses
English Composition		6
Humanities and Fine Arts: Humanities		3
Biological and Physical Sciences		8
Subtotal		17
Course #	Course Title	Credits
Required Core Courses
MGT 130	Improving Customer Service Quality	3
MKT 139	Retailing	3
MKT 140	Fashion Merchandising	3
or MGT 122	Supervision	3
MKT 240	Fashion Merchandising Planning and Control	3
or MGT 276	Human Resources	3
Subtotal		12
Required Support Courses
ACC 101	Financial Accounting	3
ACC 102	Managerial Accounting	3
ART 100	Basic Design	3
BUS 205	Statistical Methods in Economics and Business	3
or PSY 230	Psychological Measurements and Statistics	3
CIS 100	Introduction to Computers	3
ECN 200	Basic Economic Principles	3
MAT 173	Mathematics for Business I	3
MAT 174	Mathematics for Business II	3
PSY 101	Introduction to Psychology	4
PSY 289	Psychology Research Methods	4
STU 210	Transfer Strategies	2
Subtotal		34
Total		63

* Other general education requirements are fulfilled by required core and support courses: Humanities and Fine Arts: Arts - ART 100 fulfills the 3 credit Art requirement; Mathematics Requirement - MAT 174; Social and Behavioral Sciences Requirement - ECN 200 and PSY 101; Other Requirements - CIS 100 and MAT 173.