CSM Undergraduate Minors

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The Department of Consumer Sciences offers undergraduate minors in the following programs:

Conflict Resolution:
The Conflict Resolution Minor prepares students for work which requires the skills of negotiation, mediation, and conflict management.  The courses provides grounding in interpersonal communication and management skills, including rapport building, empathic listening, behavior modeling, reframing, and problem solving.  The courses are appropriate for students with no formal training in managing conflict. 

Personal Finance:
The Personal Finance Minor introduces students to the fundamentals of managing one’s own finances and developing others’ financial capability.  Required coursework includes introductory individual and family resource management, introductory personal financial planning, and time value of money.  Then, students choose three additional courses from the following list based on their interests: financial capability; personal insurance planning & management; psychology of money; personal income tax management planning; techniques of counseling in consumer sciences. Students who pursue a CSM major cannot also pursue the Personal Finance Minor.

Digital Consumer Engagement:
The Digital Consumer Engagement Minor equips students with the technical knowledge, skills, and abilities to succeed in today’s digital consumer workplace and home.  Consumers are increasingly engaged in digital communications and online communities in their homes, workplaces, and markets. The Digital Consumer Engagement curriculum prepares students for these transactions and the quickly-changing markets in which they occur.

Consumer Sciences:
(insert description)

Conflict resolution

CSM 425
Conflict Resolution Workplace *
(3 hours)

CSM 427
Emotional Intelligence
(3 hours)

CSM 428
Processes of Negotiation
(3 hours)

CSM 430
Family & Consumer Law *
(3 hours)

CSM 486
Principled Negotiation
(3 hours)

Total Hours
15

Personal Finance

Required Courses:

CSM 201
Indiv Family Resourc Mgt
(3 hours)

CSM 204
Intro Personl Finan Plan
(3 hours)
OR
CSM 205
Honors Intro Pers Finan Plan
(3 hours)

CSM 300
Time Value of Money
(1 hour)

Choose 3 Additional Courses:

CSM 333
Financial Capability
(3 hours)

CSM 400
Personal Insurance Plan & Mgt
(3 hours)

CSM 435
Psychology Of Money
(3 hours)

CSM 454
Personal Income Tax Mgt Planng
(3 hours)

CSM 459
Tech of Counsl in Cons Science
(3 hours)

Total Hours
16

Digital Consumer Engagement

CSM 101
Introduction to Digital Tools
(3 hours)

CSM 440
Max Social Media Mktg
(3 hours)

CSM 441
Consumer Communications *
(3 hours)

CSM 443
Consumer Cybersecurity
(3 hours)
OR
CSM 381
Consumer Marketing Management

CSM 445
Applied Digital Tools *
(3 hours)

CSM 447
Advanced Digital Tools
(3 hours)


Total Hours
18

Consumer Sciences

CSM 201
Indiv Family Resourc Mgt
(3 hours)

CSM 204
Intro Personl Finan Plan
(3 hours)
OR
CSM 205
Honors Intro Pers Finan Plan
(3 hours)

CSM 303
Intro to Consumer Econ
(3 hours)
OR
CSM 403
Consumer Economics
(3 hours)

CSM 381
Consumer Marketing Management
(3 hours)

CSM 401
Consumer Protection
(3 hours)

CSM 405
Public Policy
(3 hours)

Total Hours
18

*may also count towards CA Concentration