The Department of Family and Consumer Sciences offers students a Bachelor of Arts degree in six option areas of study:
Requirements for all majors include a minimum of 120 units for the Bachelor of Arts degree. In addition to general education requirements (48 units), a minimum of 40 units in Family and Consumer Sciences must be completed, 24 of which must be upper division. Students transferring from another college or university will receive transfer credit in required courses if the course is equivalent to the course at this University and it is first accepted by the University.
Specific degree and certificate information as well as option requirements are listed under each option alphabetically in this Catalog.
A B.A. in Family and Consumer Sciences: Fashion Merchandising or Textiles and Clothing enables students to pursue careers in the design, production and merchandising of textile and apparel products, and to meet individual and family textile and apparel needs.
Course requirements for a B.A. in Family and Consumer Sciences: Fashion Merchandising or Textiles and Clothing are:
ACCT 201; CHEM 100 or 111A; CAFF 321I; ECON 100 and 101 or 300; HIST 131 or AH 111A; IS 233; MKTG 300; PSY 100; SOC 100 or 142 or ANTH 120; FCSE 296 or ART 149; FCSE 299, 486 and 499; FMD 154 or 252; 155, 251, 253, 258, 351, 353, 355, 492E; 12 units selected from FMD 450, 455, 456, 457, or either FMD 356 or 451; plus 9 units of advisor approved electives.
Each course on the student’s program planner must be completed with a grade of “C” or better. In addition, a course which a grade lower than “C” is received must be retaken and successfully completed prior to enrolling in a course for which it is a prerequisite. A student receiving a grade lower than a “C” may proceed with other courses with approval of the Area Coordinator.
Eighteen units including FMD 155, 252, 455 or 457; and 9 units, including at least 6 upper-division units, selected from FMD 251, 253, 351, 355, 492E as approved by a Fashion Merchandising and Design faculty advisor. It is the student’s responsibility to adhere to all prerequisites listed below. Several prerequisites fulfill general education requirements.
The Minor in Fashion Merchandising is available to any non-Fashion Merchandising and Design major.
CHEM 100 or 111A; ECON 100 and 101 or 300; HIST 131 or AH 111A; SOC 100 or 142 or ANTH 120; CAFF 321I; IS 233; FCSE 296 or ART 149; FCSE 299, 499; FMD 152, 154, 155, 251, 253, 256, 257, 258, FMD 352, 353, 354, 357, 359, 450, 452, 454, 456, 457, 458, 492M.
Each course on the student’s program planner must be completed with a grade of “C” or better. In addition, a course in which a grade lower than “C” is received must be retaken and successfully completed prior to enrolling in a course for which it is a prerequisite. A student receiving a grade lower than a “C” may proceed with other courses with approval of the Area Coordinator.
Eighteen units including FMD 155, 253, 353, 458, and 457; 3 additional units selected from FMD 450 or 492E. It is the student’s responsibility to adhere to all prerequisites listed below. It should be noted that several prerequisites fulfill general education requirements.
The Minor in Textiles is available to any non-Fashion Merchandising or Textiles and Clothing major.
