Courses
Courses primarily for undergraduates:
Credits: 1. Contact Hours: Lecture 1.
Introduction to professional experiences within AESHM and CHS Career Services including CyHire. Coursework includes resume development, daily habits for success including stress management, intrapersonal skills with a wellness focus, interpersonal skills and leadership, business etiquette, and professional ethics. (Typically Offered: Fall, Spring)
Credits: 1. Contact Hours: Laboratory 2.
Orientation to policies and procedures of department and program. Overview of major and minor options, including entrepreneurship. Exploration of undergraduate research, independent studies, study abroad, and field studies. Coverage of goal setting, curriculum planning, degree audits, and registration. Peer mentor interaction in academic, extracurricular, and service learning arranged component. (Typically Offered: Fall, Spring)
Credits: 1. Repeatable, maximum of 2 times.
Prereq: Academic Advisor Permission for Course
Supervised work experience with a cooperating firm or organization. Employer/experience for AESHM 4700 or HSPM 4700 should be different from employer/experience used for AESHM 1700 and AESHM 2700. Graduation Restriction: No more than 12 credits total from AESHM 1700, 2700, and 4700 may be applied toward graduation. Offered on a satisfactory-fail basis only.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
Credits: 1. Repeatable, maximum of 2 times.
Prereq: Academic Advisor Permission for Course
Supervised work experience with a cooperating firm or organization. Employer/experience for AESHM 4700 or HSPM 4700 should be different from employer/experience used for AESHM 1700 and AESHM 2700. Graduation Restriction: No more than 12 credits total from AESHM 1700, 2700, and 4700 may be applied toward graduation. Offered on a satisfactory-fail basis only.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
Credits: 1. Repeatable, maximum of 2 times.
Prereq: Advisor permission required; freshman classification
Supervised work experience with a cooperating firm or organization. Employer/experience for AESHM 4700 or HSPM 4700 should be different from employer/experience used for AESHM 1700 and AESHM 2700. Graduation Restriction: No more than 12 credits total from AESHM 1700, 2700, and 4700 may be applied toward graduation. Offered on a satisfactory-fail basis only.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
Credits: 2. Contact Hours: Lecture 2.
Using an online delivery method, students will learn basic mathematical concepts, calculations and formulas commonly used in the apparel and hospitality industries. Emphasis on problem solving, critical/creative thinking, and mathematical interpretation of calculations and formulas used within the hospitality industries. (Typically Offered: Spring)
Credits: 2. Repeatable.
Using an online delivery method, students will learn basic mathematical concepts, calculations and formulas commonly used in the apparel and hospitality industries. Emphasis on problem solving, critical/creative thinking, and mathematical interpretation of calculations and formulas used within the apparel industries. (Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
Credits: 1-2. Contact Hours: Lecture 2.5, Laboratory 0.
Repeatable, maximum of 2 times.
Prereq: Instructor Permission for Course
Study of and tours of regional areas of interest to majors in the HSPM and EVENT majors. Trip to regional location under supervision of faculty member. Locations vary. Journal entries and final report/analysis are required. Cost associated with trip.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring)
Credits: 1-2. Contact Hours: Lecture 2.
Repeatable, maximum of 2 times.
Prereq: Instructor Permission for Course
Study of and tours of regional areas of interest to AMD majors. Trip to regional location under supervision of faculty member. Locations vary. Journal entries and final report/analysis are required. Cost associated with trip.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Introduction to leadership behaviors. Development and utilization of leadership behaviors to positively impact school life, community life, and work life. (Typically Offered: Fall, Spring)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Learn to use creativity strategies to solve everyday problems related to personal and professional lives. Application of creative thinking techniques to view things from different perspectives; identify unique opportunities; and generate and evaluate original ideas. Offered even-numbered years. (Typically Offered: Spring)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: AMD 2750 or AESHM 2700, or AESHM 2870 or concurrent enrollment; sophomore classification
Principles and practices of human resource management relevant to human science-related organizations. Emphasis on the entry-level manager's role.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring)
Credits: 1-2. Repeatable, maximum of 2 times.
Supervised work experience with a cooperating firm or organization. Employer/experience for AESHM 4700 or HSPM 4700 should be different from employer/experience used for AESHM 1700 and AESHM 2700. Graduation Restriction: No more than 12 credits total from AESHM 1700, 2700, and 4700 may be applied toward graduation. (Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
Credits: 1-2. Repeatable, maximum of 2 times.
Supervised work experience with a cooperating firm or organization. Employer/experience for AESHM 4700 or HSPM 4700 should be different from employer/experience used for AESHM 1700 and AESHM 2700. Graduation Restriction: No more than 12 credits total from AESHM 1700, 2700, and 4700 may be applied toward graduation. (Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
Credits: 1-2. Repeatable, maximum of 2 times.
Supervised work experience with a cooperating firm or organization. Employer/experience for AESHM 4700 or HSPM 4700 should be different from employer/experience used for AESHM 1700 and AESHM 2700. Graduation Restriction: No more than 12 credits total from AESHM 1700, 2700, and 4700 may be applied toward graduation. (Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
Credits: 2-3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3, Laboratory 2.
Repeatable, maximum of 5 credits.
Prereq: Instructor Permission for Course
Planning and production of fashion show including developing budgets, public relations, advertising, fund-raising, choreography, staging, lighting, and food. Promotion of fashion show and similar events. Permission by application. Graduation Restriction: Maximum of 5 credits can be applied to graduation.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring)
Credits: Required. Contact Hours: Lecture 1.
Repeatable, maximum of 2 times.
Orientation to the field study location during the semester preceding the trip. (Typically Offered: Fall, Spring)
Credits: 1. Contact Hours: Lecture 1.
Repeatable, maximum of 2 times.
Orientation to the field study location during the semester preceding the trip. (Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Introduction to management concepts and principles with application to human sciences-related businesses and organizations. Includes service quality management, professionalism, and social responsibility. (Typically Offered: Fall, Spring)
Credits: 1. Contact Hours: Lecture 1.
Prereq: AESHM 1110; Sophomore classification
Internship and career planning, professional expectations and responsibilities. Resume development, business letters/professional correspondence, interviewing techniques, and business etiquette.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring)
Credits: 1. Contact Hours: Lecture 1.
Prereq: AESHM 1110; Sophomore classification
Internship and career planning, professional expectations and responsibilities. Resume development, cover letters, interviewing techniques, and business etiquette.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Application of marketing principles to the hospitality-, events-, and apparel-related industries. Emphasis on the role of marketing in an organization's overall strategic planning. Development and evaluation techniques available to hospitality, events, apparel, and related businesses, including advertising, sales promotion, packaging, and public relations. (Typically Offered: Fall, Spring)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: Sophomore classification
Design principles, aesthetic concepts, and research applied to consumer experiences, with an emphasis on hospitality and retail environments and events. Influence of individual differences and cultural patterns on aesthetic preferences.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring)
Credits: 1-3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Survey course of retail and hospitality events. Production and execution of retail and hospitality events in the Student Innovation Center.
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Overview and management of hazards and risks in the planning, design, operation, and evaluation stages of events, hospitality organizations, and apparel/retail environments. (Typically Offered: Summer)
(Dual-listed with AESHM 5800D).
Credits: 1-3. Repeatable, maximum of 3 times.
Study and tours of areas of interest to majors in the Hospitality Management program. Trip to location under supervision of faculty member. Locations and lengths of trip vary. Final projects, reports, journal entries, and analysis are required. May be combined with AESHM 2800. Permission by application. (Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
(Dual-listed with AESHM 5800F).
Credits: 1-3. Repeatable, maximum of 3 times.
Study and tours of areas of interest to majors in the majors in the Event Management program. Trip to location under supervision of faculty member. Locations and lengths of trip vary. Final projects, reports, journal entries, and analysis are required. May be combined with AESHM 2800. Permission by application. (Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
(Dual-listed with AESHM 5800N).
Credits: 1-3. Repeatable, maximum of 3 times.
Prereq: AESHM 2800 or concurrent enrollment; permission of instructor
Study and tours of areas of interest to majors in the Apparel, Merchandising, and Design program. Trip to location under supervision of faculty member. Locations and lengths of trip vary. Final projects, reports, journal entries, and analysis are required. May be combined with AESHM 2800. Permission by application.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
(Dual-listed with AESHM 5810D).
Credits: 1-3. Repeatable.
Prereq: AESHM 2810 or concurrent enrollment; Instructor permission
Study and tours of areas of interest to majors in the Hospitality Management program. Trip to location under supervision of faculty member. Locations and lengths of trip vary. Final projects, reports, journal entries, and analysis are required. May be combined with AESHM 2810. Permission by application. Meets International Perspectives Requirement.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
(Dual-listed with AESHM 5810F).
Credits: 1-3. Repeatable.
Prereq: AESHM 2810 or concurrent enrollment; Instructor permission
Study and tours of areas of interest to majors in the Event Management major. Trip to location under supervision of faculty member. Locations and lengths of trip vary. Final projects, reports, journal entries, and analysis are required. May be combined with AESHM 2810. Permission by application. Meets International Perspectives Requirement.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
(Dual-listed with AESHM 5810N).
Credits: 1-3. Repeatable, maximum of 3 times.
Prereq: AESHM 2810 or concurrent enrollment; Instructor permission
Study and tours of areas of interest to majors in the Apparel, Merchandising, and Design major. Trip to location under supervision of faculty member. Locations and lengths of trip vary. Final projects, reports, journal entries, and analysis are required. May be combined with AESHM 2810. Permission by application. Meets International Perspectives Requirement.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
Credits: Required. Repeatable.
Prereq: Permission of Advisor; Junior classification
Required of all cooperative education students seeking full-time status. Students register for this course prior to commencing each work period.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Development of leadership in a global environment. Focus on global concerns that impact on the well-being of individuals, families, and communities. Strategies for working with individuals, families and communities in other countries and cultures. Taking local action on global issues. Participation in a service activity. Meets International Perspectives Requirement. (Typically Offered: Spring)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: AMD 1650 or Permission of Instructor
Use historical and cultural methods to examine the history of the Black Lives Matter movement its relationship to past resistance/activist movements and fashion and appearance. Summarize and evaluate literature on Black activism and Black identity. Plan and develop a public exhibition and opening event. Offered even-numbered years. Meets U.S. Cultures and Communities (formerly U.S. Diversity) Requirement.
(Typically Offered: Spring)
Credits: 3-6. Repeatable.
Prereq: Department Permission for Course
Supervised and structured practical industry work experience with a cooperating firm or organization. Employer/experience for AESHM 4700 or HSPM 4700 should be different from employer/experience used for AESHM 1700 and AESHM 2700. This course if offered for a grade. Graduation Restriction: Maximum number of credits given in a semester is 6. No more than 12 credits from AESHM 1700, 2700, and 4700 may be applied toward graduation.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
Credits: 3-6. Repeatable, maximum of 12 credits.
Prereq: Department Permission for Course
Supervised work experience with a cooperating firm or organization. Graduation Restrictions: No more than 12 credits from AESHM 1700, 2700, and 4700 may be applied toward graduation.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
Credits: 3-6. Repeatable.
Prereq: Department Permission for Course
Supervised work experience with a cooperating firm or organization. Employer/experience for AESHM 4700 or HSPM 4700 should be different from employer/experience used for AESHM 1700 and AESHM 2700. Graduation Restriction: No more than 12 credits total from AESHM 1700, 2700, and 4700 may be applied toward graduation.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
Credits: 2-3. Contact Hours: Lecture 2, Laboratory 2.
Repeatable, maximum of 5 credits.
Prereq: Instructor Permission for Course
Provide leadership and communicate direction for planning and production of fashion show, including developing budgets, publicity, advertising, fundraising, choreography, staging, lighting, and food. Graduation Restriction: Maximum of 5 credits can be applied to graduation.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: AMD 2750 or AESHM 2870 or ACCT 2840 or 3 cr in MKT or permission of instructor
Comprehensive approach to entrepreneurship including concepts of innovation, creativity, opportunity assessment, and business planning. Focus on human sciences-related businesses: retail, service, hospitality, event, food-related, family-owned, rural, and community businesses. Interaction with entrepreneurs, market research, feasibility analysis, business proposals, and business/community outreach and consulting.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Introduction to business analytics concepts and techniques in retail business including fashion, hospitality, and event. Offers opportunities to learn basic hands-on data analytics methods for data summarization, analysis, visualization, and interpretation. (Typically Offered: Fall)
Credits: 2-4.
Prereq: Instructor Permission for Course
Offered on a satisfactory-fail basis only.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
Credits: Required. Contact Hours: Lecture 1.
Repeatable.
Prereq: Permission of advisor; Senior or Graduate classification
Required of cooperative education students. Students must register for this course prior to commencing each work period.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
Courses primarily for graduate students, open to qualified undergraduates:
Credits: 1.
Focus on the basics of developing scholarly research, including definition and purpose of research and the components of research reporting. Emphasis on standards for each section of research reports. Tips for research reporting and processes of research development. An introduction to ethical standards. Required of all new AESHM graduate students. Offered on a satisfactory-fail basis only. (Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: Graduate classification
Overview of research methods for qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods. Topics include philosophical worldviews, the use of theory, and different research approach, design, methodologies, and procedures.
(Typically Offered: Summer)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: STAT 5870 or equivalent; Graduate standing in the Department; Permission of Instructor
Overview of quantitative research methods in apparel and hospitality fields. Topics include types of quantitative research design, sampling design, measurement, validity issues, power and precision analysis, methods of data gathering and analysis techniques, and interpretation of statistical results. Use of statistical packages. Development of research plan. Offered odd-numbered years.
(Typically Offered: Spring, Summer)
Credits: 1-3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Repeatable, maximum of 6 times.
Prereq: 6 graduate credits in AMD, AESHM, or HSPM. Permission of Instructor
Discussion of scholarship and current issues. Topics vary.
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.5.
Prereq: Graduate standing
Introduction to and hands-on experiences with a variety of qualitative research methods specific to apparel, events and hospitality research. Students will develop skills at research design, data, collection, analysis, and write-up for qualitative inquiry. Offered even-numbered years.
(Typically Offered: Summer)
Credits: 1-3. Repeatable, maximum of 2 times.
Prereq: 6 graduate credits in AMD, AESHM, or HSPM. Permission of Instructor
Supervised experience related to career objective. Proposal must be approved semester before placement.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
Credits: 1-3. Repeatable, maximum of 2 times.
Prereq: 6 graduate credits in AMD, AESHM, or HSPM. Permission of Instructor
Supervised experience related to career objective. Proposal must be approved semester before placement.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: AMD 2750 or AESHM 2870 or ACCT 2840 or 3 cr in MKT or permission of instructor
Comprehensive approach to entrepreneurship including concepts of innovation, creativity, opportunity assessment, and business planning. Focus on human sciences-related businesses: retail, service, hospitality, event, food-related, family-owned, rural, and community businesses. Interaction with entrepreneurs, market research, feasibility analysis, business proposals, and business/community outreach and consulting.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: STAT 5870 or equivalent; (AESHM 5100 and HDFS 5030) or instructor permission
Business analytics is a process of transforming data into meaningful insights and actionable results in the context of decision making and problem solving. Review of the data-related challenges apparel, event, and hospitality organizations confront and the importance of data analytics in making critical management decisions. Basic analytic techniques including data management, analysis, interpretation, and visualization and analyze case studies that successfully deployed these techniques. Typically Offered: Fall (even-numbered years), Summer (odd-numbered years).
(Dual-listed with AESHM 3800D).
Credits: 1-3. Repeatable, maximum of 3 times.
Prereq: AESHM 2800 or concurrent enrollment; permission of instructor
Study and tours of areas of interest to majors in the Hospitality Management program. Trip to location under supervision of faculty member. Locations and lengths of trip vary. Final projects, reports, journal entries, and analysis are required. May be combined with AESHM 2800. Permission by application.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
(Dual-listed with AESHM 3800F).
Credits: 1-3. Repeatable, maximum of 3 times.
Prereq: AESHM 2800 or concurrent enrollment; permission of instructor
Study and tours of areas of interest to majors in the majors in the Event Management program. Trip to location under supervision of faculty member. Locations and lengths of trip vary. Final projects, reports, journal entries, and analysis are required. May be combined with AESHM 2800. Permission by application.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
(Dual-listed with AESHM 3800N).
Credits: 1-3. Repeatable, maximum of 3 times.
Prereq: AESHM 2800 or concurrent enrollment; permission of instructor
Study and tours of areas of interest to majors in the Apparel, Merchandising, and Design program. Trip to location under supervision of faculty member. Locations and lengths of trip vary. Final projects, reports, journal entries, and analysis are required. May be combined with AESHM 2800. Permission by application.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
(Dual-listed with AESHM 3810D).
Credits: 1-3. Repeatable.
Prereq: AESHM 2810 or concurrent enrollment; Instructor permission
Study and tours of areas of interest to majors in the Hospitality Management program. Trip to location under supervision of faculty member. Locations and lengths of trip vary. Final projects, reports, journal entries, and analysis are required. May be combined with AESHM 2810. Permission by application. Meets International Perspectives Requirement.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
(Dual-listed with AESHM 3810F).
Credits: 1-3. Repeatable.
Prereq: AESHM 2810 or concurrent enrollment; Instructor permission
Study and tours of areas of interest to majors in the Event Management major. Trip to location under supervision of faculty member. Locations and lengths of trip vary. Final projects, reports, journal entries, and analysis are required. May be combined with AESHM 2810. Permission by application. Meets International Perspectives Requirement.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
(Dual-listed with AESHM 3810N).
Credits: 1-3. Repeatable, maximum of 3 times.
Prereq: AESHM 2810 or concurrent enrollment; Instructor permission
Study and tours of areas of interest to majors in the Apparel, Merchandising, and Design major. Trip to location under supervision of faculty member. Locations and lengths of trip vary. Final projects, reports, journal entries, and analysis are required. May be combined with AESHM 2810. Permission by application. Meets International Perspectives Requirement.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
Courses for graduate students:
Credits: 1-3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Repeatable.
Prereq: 6 graduate credits in AMD, AESHM, or HSPM. Permission of Instructor
Scholarship and current issues. Topics vary.
Credits: 1-3. Repeatable.
Prereq: Instructor Permission for Course
Supervised experience in the university classroom. Proposal must be approved semester before placement.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
Credits: 1-3. Repeatable.
Prereq: Instructor Permission for Course
Supervised experience in the university classroom. Proposal must be approved semester before placement.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
Credits: 1-3. Repeatable.
Prereq: Instructor Permission for Course
This practicum is designed to provide event management graduate students (the graduate instructor) with experience in instructional planning, management, and systematic delivery of designed instruction for event undergraduate courses. Proposal must be approved semester before placement.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)