This programme equips graduate students with the necessary skills and knowledge required to enter the retailing industry.
Type: undergraduate degree
Duration: 4 years full time
Compulsory Subjects
First year subjects:
- Computer literacy
- Economics
- Academic literacy
- Financial accounting
- Interior production
- History of art
- Design principles
- Statistics
- Information literacy
- Informatics
- Interior merchandise
- Communicational management
Second year subjects:
- Marketing management
- Ergonomics
- Interior production
- Future and textile history
- Business management
- Textiles: fibres, utilities and yarns
- Industrial and organisational psychology
- Consumer behaviour and service market
- Interior planning
- Interior merchandise
- Textiles: structures and finishes
Third year subjects:
- Industrial and organisational psychology
- Marketing management
- Business law
- Interior production
- Interior merchandise
- Entrepreneurship
- Visual design
- Interior planning
Fourth year subjects:
- Marketing management
- Interior planning
- Consumer facilitation
- Project: interior merchandise
Careers: interior merchandiser, shopping mall manager, retailer manager.
Source: www.up.ac.za