Program description
The Consumer Sciences curriculum allows students to select a concentration in either family financial planning and counseling or consumer affairs. Both options provide tremendous job opportunities for consumer-oriented professionals. We also offer minors in conflict resolution, consumer sciences, digital consumer engagement and personal finance.
Family Financial Planning and Counseling Concentration
The concentration in family financial planning and counseling has been accepted by the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. Students who successfully complete the concentration will be eligible to sit for the CFP® certification examination that leads to the professional certification as a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professional and CFP®. CFP® and CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ are certification marks owned by the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. (CFP Board). These marks are awarded to individuals who successfully complete the CFP Board′s initial and ongoing certification requirements. The University of Alabama does not certify individuals to use the CFP® and CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ marks. CFP® certification is granted solely by the CFP Board to individuals who, in addition to completing an educational requirement such as this CFP Board-Registered Program, have met ethics, experience and examination requirements.
Consumer Affairs Concentration
The Consumer Affairs concentration offers an applied approach to understanding consumers in home and market environments. With coursework in consumer economics, consumer policy, consumer communications, and family resource management, the Consumer Affairs concentration prepares students for careers as consumer specialists in government, business, research, and non-profit settings. This concentration builds students’ capacity to analyze markets and matters of personal finance from the perspective of consumers, and to communicate these issues to stakeholders.
Graduates enjoy careers as analysts, entrepreneurs, sales professionals, customer care and engagement specialists and financial professionals, and similar positions in private, public, and non-profit sectors. The skills learned in this concentration also prepare students for law school and graduate school.
Consumer Affairs Concentration
Graduates enjoy careers as analysts, entrepreneurs, sales professionals, customer care and engagement specialists and financial professionals, and similar positions in private, public, and non-profit sectors. The skills learned in this concentration also prepare students for law school and graduate school.
Consumer Affairs Concentration