The HDCS program, located in the College of Technology, focuses on consumer and merchandising processes and their application to a broad spectrum of problems related to individual consumers, families, services agencies, and retail marketers of products of services. Additionally, the programs focus on trend analysis, selling, and merchandising experience. Students usually are employed in the retail industry. Those who go on to graduate school usually go into training and development.

Information about the Consumer Science and Merchandising degree is available at the following sites:

http://www.tech.uh.edu/hdcs/
http://www.tech.uh.edu/hdcs/csm/

There is an online version of the Consumer Science degree which is called E-CSM. See http://www.tech.uh.edu/hdcs/ecsm/.

Contact e-mail: bstewart@uh.edu for information on E-CSM.