COURSE: BCONS SC (CLOTHING) IN RETAIL MANAGEME...

This programme equips graduate students with the necessary skills and knowledge required to enter the clothing and retailing industries.

Type: undergraduate degree

Duration: 4 years full time

Compulsory Subjects

First year subjects:

• Computer literacy


• Economics


• Academic literacy


• Financial accounting


• Clothing production: sewing technology


• Design principles


• Statistics


• Information literacy


• Aesthetics


• Informatics


• Clothing production: processes

Second year subjects:

• Marketing management


• Aesthetics


• Costume and fashion history


• Flat pattern design


• Business management


• Textiles: utility, fibres and yarn


• Consumer behaviour and service market


• Fashion forecasting


• Pattern use and good fit


• Experimental training


• Textiles: structures and finishes

Third year subjects:

• Marketing management


• Business law


• Tailoring


• Business management


• New development and textiles in use


• Social and cultural aspects of clothing

Fourth year subjects:

• Marketing management


• Clothing retail management


• Product development


• Clothing textile project


• Clothing merchandising


• Textiles

Careers: retail manager, shopping mall manager, store manager.

Source: www.up.ac.za

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