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Apparel, Housing, and Resource Management: Description of Major
The AHRM Department includes three areas of program concentration—apparel, housing, and resource management.
Program Areas / Concentrations / Options:
Apparel Product Development and Merchandise Management
Apparel Product Development and Merchandise Management focuses on the concerns of consumers in relation to apparel and textiles of manufacturers and retailers. Basic to these concerns are social, cultural, political, and economic factors affecting consumer satisfaction. The program includes options in apparel design and merchandising management.
Housing
Housing focuses on the residential environment, especially planning, design, marketing and management. Required courses emphasize human, technological, and business factors, including current issues and practices. The program includes options in housing and residential property management.
Residential Property Management
The Residential Property Management option focuses on all aspects of the property management field through a curriculum that includes specific property management courses, as well as general business, housing, and real estate courses. Graduates enter the profession with a broad understanding of the issues and challenges faced by the multifamily housing industry, as well as extensive first hand experience gained through required internships offered by companies throughout the United States. Based on a 2006 survey by Money Magazine and Salary.com, Money Magazine ranked property management as one of the top 5 jobs for young adults who are looking for "more pay, more upside and control over where they're going."
Resource Management/Consumer Studies
Resource management focuses on the principles and processes involved in recognition, creation, and allocation of human and material resources. The program includes an option in consumer studies. Consumer studies courses build students’ knowledge and analysis of households in the dual roles of consumers and producers in a global market.