Apparel, Housing, and Resource Management
The department includes three areas of program concentration—apparel, housing, and resource management.
Apparel
Apparel focuses on the concerns of consumers in relation to apparel and textiles of manufacturers and retailers. Basic to these concerns are social, cultural, political, and economic factors affecting consumer satisfaction.
Housing
Housing focuses on the residential environment, especially planning, design, marketing and management. Required courses emphasize human, technological, and business factors, including current issues and practices. The program includes options in housing and residential property management.
Resource Management
Resource management focuses on the principles and processes involved in recognition, creation, and allocation of human and material resources.
The program includes an option in consumer studies. Consumer studies courses build students' knowledge and analysis of households in the dual roles of consumers and producers in a global market.
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College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences
Apparel, Housing, and Resource Management is a part of the College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences. Majors in this college may share high school preparation requirements as well as common coursework at Virginia Tech.