A workshop to familiarize students with the CSR department, department majors, advising resources, and major requirements. Special emphasis on basic freshman survival skills.

CSR 10000 Introduction To CSR

Introduction To CSR

This course will provide knowledge and skills for young adults to be active, informed, and rational managers of their financial life. The course will particularly address the following 4 areas of personal finance. Managing money: Why it's useful to plan one's financial affairs, budgeting, being an informed manager of one's money and consumer of financial products. Financing large items using savings and credit: Know how credit works, how to use it wisely, and how to avoid over indebtedness. Learn savings strategies to maximize the growth of your money.  Using financial markets: What are the different ways to invest, and how to make them work for you and your objectives (such as retirement). Managing risk: How to use financial tools (such as insurance) to protect yourself against risk. The course will emphasize age-relevant knowledge and practical advice, with the objective to help students make better financial decisions and adopt better financial behaviors for the long term.

CSR 10300 Introduction To Personal Finance

Introduction To Personal Finance

This course introduces the fundamentals of the Apparel industry, design, and assembly through lectures, discussions, readings and application in an Apparel laboratory. The student will learn the proper operation of industrial garment production equipment. Further, the course will introduce the manufacturing standards of apparel assembly through garment construction, principles of fit and fiber, and fabric performance.

CSR 12800 Introduction To Apparel Design

Introduction To Apparel Design

Professional Development in Consumer Sciences & Retailing is a required course that will provide the necessary techniques to manage job search skills and career development for both current and future professional needs. The covered topics will expose students to on-campus resources, opportunities to gain key networking skills, and establish their professional identity to better prepare students for the current job market.

CSR 20000 Professional Development In Consumer Science

Professional Development In Consumer Science

Introduction to sales process, business to business communication strategies, and expectations of a sales professional.

CSR 20100 Introduction To Professional Sales

Introduction To Professional Sales

Retail career paths, management training, merchandise control, organization and service structure, and a comparison of store types.

CSR 20900 Introduction To Retail Management

Introduction To Retail Management

Fundamentals of the textile industry addressing the lifecycle of textile products beginning with the source and properties of textile fibers to the steps in the production of textile products and their impact on product performance and consumer satisfaction. Generate an awareness of the global textile industry as it relates to the impact on the environmental and social communities. Emphasis on retail, apparel, and interior design applications. Typically offered Spring.

CSR 21500 Textile Industry

Textile Industry

Introductory course that deals with the evolution of apparel design through the principles of flat pattern design, three-dimensional draping, and computer-aided design (CAD for pattern design). Fundamentals for apparel design. Students create designs for a basic, sleeveless, collarless top. Typically offered Fall.

CSR 22000 Apparel Design I

Apparel Design I

Continued development of apparel design from concept to finished product through the application of flat pattern design, draping, and computer-aided design. Building on the introductory course to create apparel wear design that includes sleeves, collars, blouses/shirts, dresses, pants, and skirts. Introduction to pattern grading manually and through CAD, and marker for apparel production.

CSR 22100 Apparel Design II

Apparel Design II

A course that provides insight into the structure and working of customer relations management and its role in business and government agency. Analysis of how consumer needs, complaints, and education are handled. Customer relations' management in the real world and techniques used in managing customer relations toward the goal of maximizing customer satisfaction. This course has a real-world focus and is more applied than the usual introductory course.

CSR 28200 Customer Relations Management

Customer Relations Management

Approved in-service training, a total of 140 hours; development of activities plan; and report of activities. Recommended for semesters 3,4,5, or 6. Advance approval of director and employer and attendance at pre- and post-organizational meeting is required. Permission of instructor required.

CSR 30000 Field Experience In Retail Management

Field Experience In Retail Management

Approved in-service training and supervised work experience in selling and sales management. Total of 140 hours required with in-depth report and analysis of activities. Permission of department required.

CSR 30700 Field Experience In Selling And Sales Management

Field Experience In Selling And Sales Management

Provides knowledge of humanistic processes that contribute to development of effective leadership.

CSR 30900 Leadership Strategies

Leadership Strategies

Principles of volume buying applicable to department, chain, specialty, and independent stores.

CSR 31000 Buying Of Merchandise

Buying Of Merchandise

This course focuses on long-term relationship selling. The course is organized around a seven-step selling process which has proven to be effective. The course adds to this process some principles of marketing and business strategy. The elements are necessary for the success of professional salesperson both in successful prospecting and making strategic choices as to how to allocate their time within the territory. Important to the learning process is actually practice of principles. Students will do various exercises of principles such as prospecting and negotiation. At the end of the semester, students will hone the skills learned through the semester with a series of role plays designed to put them in position of both seller and buyer.

CSR 31500 Relationship Selling

Relationship Selling

Creative experimentation, production, and analysis of promotional formats for merchandising of product in a retail setting. Study of the elements and principles of design and their application for promotion of retail merchandise and/or services.

CSR 32300 Visual Merchandising

Visual Merchandising

Exploration and experimentation of creative rendering of apparel design through the use of various media. Opportunity for the students to develop their own unique style of illustrating fashion. Typically offered Fall.

CSR 32800 Apparel Art And Design

Apparel Art And Design

An interdisciplinary survey of consumer behavior theory focused on psychological, sociological, and cultural influences on consumer choice and use of products and services. Credit will not be given for both CSR 33100 and PSY 28500.

CSR 33100 Consumer Behavior

Consumer Behavior

Examination of marketing/retail practices used to target domestic and global consumer market segments. Development of successful retail and marketing strategies is stressed.

CSR 33200 Cross-Cultural Marketing And International Retailing

Cross-Cultural Marketing And International Retailing

Students examine the innovation and creativity that foster the development of luxury brands in the current business environment. A key facet of this course is the opportunity to develop unique brand strategies that generate social, aesthetic, quality, and emotional value for luxury consumers. Students learn the ways brands tailor services, products, and experiences to achieve these goals.

CSR 34100 Luxury Brand Management

Luxury Brand Management

The class covers a comprehensive discussion of investments, consumer credit, insurance and retirement issues. The goal is to show how these components are interconnected in order to create a complete picture of financial health of an individual. CTL:IPO 1811 Personal Finance.

CSR 34200 Personal Finance

Personal Finance

This course is designed to be relevant to the broad spectrum of bargaining problems that are traditionally faced by the manager, sales personnel and financial advisors. The course explores the processes of bargaining and negotiation as social and managerial activities. Special emphasis will be given to the areas of interpersonal and interpersonal and intergroup conflict, in addition to the interpersonal influence techniques and the tactics and strategies involved with improved bargaining and negotiation. The major purpose of the course is for each student to gain insight into his or her own negotiating style and to become a more effective negotiator, as well as a more astute observer of social process. The course will involve extensive use of cases, role-plays, and related participative activities, enhanced by rigorous self-review and introspection.

CSR 34400 Fundamentals Of Negotiations

Fundamentals Of Negotiations

The course includes principles of insurance, analysis and evaluation of risk exposures, legal aspects of insurance, insurance needs and analysis, policy selection, and insurance company selection and due diligence. Types of insurance that are studied include:  property and casualty, health, life, long-term care, disability and general business liability.

CSR 38600 Risk Management

Risk Management

Individual participation, supervised reading, laboratory or field experiments, or research in special areas of the field. Permission of instructor required.

CSR 39000 Sports Agency Sales Internship

Sports Agency Sales Internship

CSR 39000 Sales Internship II

Sales Internship II

CSR 39000 Center For Prof Selling Intern

Center For Prof Selling Intern

CSR 39000 Retail Internship II

Retail Internship II

CSR 39000 FCPL Practicum

FCPL Practicum

CSR 39000 Purdue Sales Team

Purdue Sales Team

CSR 39000 Sales Center Research

Sales Center Research

Individual participation, supervised reading, laboratory or field experiments, or research in special areas of the field. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.

CSR 39000 Apparel Showcase

Apparel Showcase

Individual participation in supervised undergraduate project. Open to qualified upperclassmen. Permission of department required.

CSR 39500 TeachAsst/Risk Management

TeachAsst/Risk Management

CSR 39500 TeachAssist/Relationship Sales

TeachAssist/Relationship Sales

CSR 39500 TeachAsst/Strategic Issues

TeachAsst/Strategic Issues

CSR 39500 Peer Mentor Leadership

Peer Mentor Leadership

CSR 39500 TeachAsst/Sales Mgmt Capstone

TeachAsst/Sales Mgmt Capstone

CSR 39500 TeachAsst/Consumer Behavior

TeachAsst/Consumer Behavior

CSR 39500 Tch Assist/Leadrshp Strategies

Tch Assist/Leadrshp Strategies

CSR 39500 TeachAsst/Customer Rel Mgmt

TeachAsst/Customer Rel Mgmt

CSR 39500 Teach Asst/Consumr Behavior

Teach Asst/Consumr Behavior

CSR 39500 TeachAsst/Capstone FCPL

TeachAsst/Capstone FCPL

CSR 39500 TeachAsst/Sales Leadership

TeachAsst/Sales Leadership

CSR 39500 TeachAsst/Personal Finance

TeachAsst/Personal Finance

CSR 39500 TeachAsst/Negotiations

TeachAsst/Negotiations

Individual participation in supervised undergraduate project.  Open to qualified upperclassmen.  Permission of department required.  Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.

CSR 39500 Sales Center Ambassador

Sales Center Ambassador

Course taken during an International experience that is recognized by the University. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.

CSR 39800 Intercultural Development

Intercultural Development

Various topics that may change from semester to semester are presented by CSR faculty. Permission of department required.

CSR 39900 Retail Tech: Spc Plan& Cat Mgt

Retail Tech: Spc Plan& Cat Mgt

CSR 40100 Buying Of Merchandise

Analysis of selected retail organizations and their channel partners through in-depth discussion of contemporary paradigms in strategic marketing for both sales and retailing perspectives and their applications to management.

CSR 40400 Strategic Issues For Sales And Retailing

Strategic Issues For Sales And Retailing

Effective management of organizational resources in a coherent and seamless manner is necessary to realize a competitive advantage. Through the analysis of internal and external forces, students develop strategies to help an organization realize its goals and objectives. Through the application of concepts, tools, and principles of strategy and competitive advantage, this course emphasizes strategy formulation, implementation, and evaluation to ensure the long-term success of an organization. The course is structured to enhance students' analytical, critical thinking, and verbal skills by integrating academic and experiential knowledge from previous functional courses such as accounting, finance, marketing, operations, human resources, etc.

CSR 40400 Strategic Management For Service Industries

Strategic Management For Service Industries

To provide understanding of the technological and retail infrastructure that underlines doing retailing over the internet. Build an understanding of business strategies over the net. To identify management issues and consumer issues in e-retailing.

CSR 40600 E-Retailing

E-Retailing

An introduction to sales force management. An examination of the sales force management process, including principles of recruiting and selecting, training, compensation, motivation, supervision, and evaluation. Planning skills, including sales force deployment and the role of the sales force in sales forecasting, are also covered.

CSR 41500 Sales Force Management

Sales Force Management

Supply chain management is a set of approaches utilized to efficiently integrate all parties of the supply chain to fulfill a request from a customer. Companies like Amazon, Zara, Walmart, Toyota, Dell, and Procter & Gamble are proof that excellence in supply chain management is a must to achieve industry leadership. With increasing competition around the globe, supply chain management is both a challenge and an opportunity for companies. The main goal of this course is to introduce you to the key concepts and techniques that will allow you to analyze, manage and improve supply chain processes for different industries. The course is a combination of lectures, case studies, in-class exercises, and games with the goal of defining key tradeoffs that managers need to understand and evaluate to successfully manage complex supply chains. Quantitative tools designed to evaluate these tradeoffs will be studied and used extensively throughout the course. Topics that will be covered in this course include: Managing inventory, forecasting in supply chains, the optimal design of the supply chain, transportation and distribution, bullwhip effects and dealing with uncertainty, sourcing and supply contracts.

CSR 41600 Retail Supply Chain Management

Retail Supply Chain Management

A capstone course in advanced professional selling taught in a seminar format and designed to prepare students for the transition from student to professional. Students are introduced to practitioner-focused issues involved in long-term, major B2B account sales and an emphasis is placed on professional presentation skills. Students will complete a senior group research project and a major account sales project. Professional dress code from business-casual to full-business attire required based on the scheduled day-to-day activity.

CSR 41800 Selling And Sales Management Capstone

Selling And Sales Management Capstone

Creation of apparel product line or collection from concept to consumer. Application of principles of apparel design from rendering, technical sketches, pattern design, pattern grading, marker making, and construction of several apparel garments from the line or collection. Typically offered Fall.

CSR 42100 Apparel Design III

Apparel Design III

Supervised internship in the financial services industry. The experience will enable students to develop their professional interest and skills. Attendance at a pre-planning meeting required. Permission of department required.

CSR 48000 Financial Counseling And Planning Internship

Financial Counseling And Planning Internship

Examination of the ethical and compliance issues in the basic areas of investments, risk management, taxation, retirement and estate planning.

CSR 48100 Ethics And Compliance In Financial Counseling And Planning

Ethics And Compliance In Financial Counseling And Planning

As research in behavioral finance makes increasingly clear, understanding the psychology of financial behaviors is a critical skill for financial planners. Simultaneously, understanding ethical challenges to financial planners' own behaviors, and complying with new and ever more complex regulations, is a key requirement of successful and relevant financial planning and advice-giving. The course will enable students to be better financial planners by reviewing rules of behaviors for financial planners, improving students' capacity to provide fiduciary advice, and enhance their ability to integrate psychological insights into customers' financial behavior throughout the financial planning process.

CSR 48100 Ethics And Behaviors In Financial Planning

Ethics And Behaviors In Financial Planning

A survey of consumer investment alternatives, with emphasis on financial assets.

CSR 48400 Consumer Investment And Savings Decisions

Consumer Investment And Savings Decisions

Financial planning principles and practice. Course utilizes a case study approach toward financial planning for upper- and middle-income households. Business calculator required.

CSR 48500 Case Studies In Financial Planning

Case Studies In Financial Planning

Analysis of employee benefit plans, retirement needs analysis, and types of retirement plans including employer-sponsored plans and participant-directed plans.

CSR 48600 Retirement Planning And Employee Benefits

Retirement Planning And Employee Benefits

Credit variable. Permission of instructor required.

CSR 59000 LBM Instructional Development

LBM Instructional Development

CSR 59000 Special Problems In Consumer Sciences And Retailing

Special Problems In Consumer Sciences And Retailing

CSR 59000 VM Instructional Development

VM Instructional Development

Credit variable. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.

CSR 59000 Human Sexuality & Sexual Hlth

Human Sexuality & Sexual Hlth

CSR 59000 Adv Studies Health Equality

Adv Studies Health Equality

CSR 59000 Supply Chain Management

Supply Chain Management

This course introduces the participants to graduate level research in health disparities and the various theoretical and analytical skills needed to be a good health disparities researcher. It will take the course participants through the axiological, ontological and epistemological questions that we are confronted within social scientific research. This course will walk the participants through the various research paradigms and the critical debates associated with it so that they can reflect and possibly make an informed choice about their own research priorities. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring.

CSR 60100 Introduction To Health Equality

Introduction To Health Equality

(HK 67500) Professional competencies in design, implementation, evaluation and diffusion of health interventions in community settings.  Program planning paradigms, determinants of health behavior, and behavior change strategies serve as a basis for analyzing health interventions. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.

CSR 62300 Design And Analysis Of Public Health Interventions

Design And Analysis Of Public Health Interventions

An examination of research methods, principles, and theories of social science as they apply to the study of consumer behavior and marketing sciences.  Prerequisite: STAT 50100, 50200, or PSY 60000, 60100. Typically offered Fall Spring.

CSR 63100 Consumer Behavior Theories

Consumer Behavior Theories

Analysis of theories of consumption with emphasis on their relation to current practices and to the history of economic thought.  Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Spring Summer.

CSR 68100 Consumption Theories

Consumption Theories

(HK 68700) An introduction to the principals of management as applied to public health organizations, particularly local health departments. Topics include the organization of the U.S. public health system, legal and ethical obligations of public health administrators, the public health workforce and human resource issues, public health budgeting and finance, and leadership in the public health agency. The course is designed to introduce master's level students in public health to the management skills necessary to successfully implement a public health program. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.

CSR 68700 Public Health Administration

Public Health Administration

Topic and credit to be arranged. Permission of instructor required.

CSR 69000 Ind Std Consumer Science

Ind Std Consumer Science

CSR 69000 Independent Study In Consumer Sciences And Retailing

Independent Study In Consumer Sciences And Retailing

Topic and credit to be arranged. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.

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