Program Codes:
FMR.AAS
Associate in Applied Science
Few areas of employment offer a better outlook for trained personnel. Students will find career opportunities in the areas of fashion merchandising, sales promotion, retail advertising, and supportive retail service. Graduates may find work in department stores, specialty shops, discount stores, as a retailing executive, an assistant buyer, an assistant department manager, an executive trainee, an advertising assistant, or an assistant fashion coordinator.
Below are required courses and recommended course groupings and sequences for program completion.
Courses may have prerequisite and corequisite requirements. Check course descriptions for details.
Through a variety of writing projects requiring competence in clear, correct, and effective English, students will use inferential and critical skills in the process of composing documented essays. Extensive reading materials serve as structural models and as the bases for discussion and for the writing of essays involving response, analysis, and synthesis.
A passing score on the College placement test or a grade of “C” or better in ENG-010
The planning, supervision, control and performance of activities involved in the production of goods and services. The problems of human relations and labor-management and the functions of human resources, marketing, purchasing, production and finance are explored from the standpoint of effectively carrying on business that relates positively to the society of which it is a part.
This course defines computers and computer applications and their use in business, industry and government. Students completing this course will be computer fluent. Students will understand the capabilities and limitations of computers and know how to use them. In addition, students will understand computers and their ethical, legal and societal implications. Topics include the history of computers, hardware devices, software programs, terminology, privacy of information, ethical behavior and the influence of computers on people and society. Hands-on experience includes: using a Windows operating system, a word processor, designing and implementing spreadsheets and producing presentations. This course is recommended for anyone who will be involved with computers and the use of computer application software.
BUS 101
Appropriate score on the College placement test, MAT-013 or departmental approval
MAT-101 is recommended. Students with the appropriate academic prerequisites, in consultation with their academic advisor, should enroll in an appropriate mathematics course.
Through a variety of writing projects requiring competence in clear, correct, and effective English, students will use inferential and critical skills in the process of composing argument synthesis essays. Students will engage in formal written argumentation based on extensive reading and analysis of complex texts. Through the research process, students will locate, analyze, and synthesize scholarly sources to advance their own informed positions on relevant issues in the composition of a formal research paper.
A grade of “C” or better in ENG-121
Covers the accounting cycle from the recording and analyzing procedures through the summarizing procedures and preparation of general purpose, financial statements; the introduction of accounting for corporations with emphasis on the capital structure of the corporation.
Brief surveys of the American legal system, procedural law, crimes and torts, administrative agencies, consumer, environmental and planning law. Detailed study of the substantive law of contracts, personal property and bailments and sales law. (In applicable areas, the Uniform Commercial Code is covered as well as the common law principles.)
An overview of the field of marketing and the marketing concept. Students develop an understanding of the growing importance of the consumer, differences between industrial and consumer marketing, the impact of government and environment on marketing and the basic marketing functions of product planning, marketing channels, physical distribution, promotion, pricing and marketing research.
Covers the statement of cash flows; financial statement analysis, the nature of Managerial Accounting, job order cost systems, process cost systems, cost allocation and activity-based costing; analyses for managerial decision making; budgeting, standard cost systems, accounting for decentralized operations and transfer pricing.
The fundamentals of selling with particular stress on preparation, approach, demonstration, overcoming objections and closing sales. Developed through discussions and participation in sales situations.
Introduction to the theory and practice of public address; the study of representative public addresses and the preparation and delivery of short speeches.
Physical/Health Education Elective
A passing score on the algebra portion of the College placement test or MAT-013
An interdisciplinary course which integrates and synthesizes concepts and information from preceding management courses. Emphasis is on establishing an environment to employ previously learned material, with the opportunity to practice decision-making and control techniques based on this material. Case studies are employed and supplemented with simulation techniques. Emphasis is given to subordinate supervisor interaction, with students participating individually and in teams.
The student must have completed half the courses in the Fashion Merchandising and Retail program. Management and written permission of the department chairperson and Counseling and Career Services Office.
Choose one course designated in the course descriptions as General Education Social Science (GE SS).
Choose one course designated in the course descriptions as General Education Humanities (GE HUM).
Students must select courses with the GE MST designation and with the BIO, CHM, PHY and SCI course codes.
Contact Name: Associate Professor Nancy Bailey, department chair
Contact Phone: 732.906.2594
Contact Email: ABLS@middlesexcc.edu
Department Web: http://www2.middlesexcc.edu/academics/academic-departments/accounting-business-and-legal-studies.html