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Sales and Marketing Professional Certificate

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Program Available at:

  • Brookhaven
  • Cedar Valley
  • Eastfield
  • El Centro
  • Mountain View
  • North Lake
  • Richland

Catalog Year 2024-2025 You may use this pathway if you entered Dallas College on or before this date.

Degree Type Level 1 Certificate

GPA Requirement Student must earn a GPA of 2.0 or higher

TSI May be Exempt

For more information, visit the Dallas College Marketing webpage and your success coach at your campus.

This is an example course sequence for students interested in pursuing Marketing. It does not represent a contract, nor does it guarantee course availability. Following this pathway will help you earn a Sales and Marketing Professional Certificate. Students must earn at least 25% of the credit hours required for graduation through instruction by Dallas College. Visit the catalog for official certificate requirements.

The Sales and Marketing Professional Certificate is an 18-credit hour program and can be completed in one semester. The award provides students a core foundation of marketing and retailing principals as well as learning key customer service and sales professional workforce skills and techniques. Courses that complete the certificate are noted below.

Students pursuing this certificate are waived from the Texas Success Initiative (TSI) standards, but must meet course prerequisites.

SEMESTER-BY-SEMESTER MAP FOR FULL-TIME STUDENTS

All plans can be modified to fit the needs of part-time students. This is not an official degree plan. See catalog for official certificate requirements.

CERTIFICATE MINIMUM: 18 SEMESTER CREDIT HOURS

SEMESTER 1

MRKG 1311 – Principles of Marketing

MRKG 1302 – Principles of Retailing

SPECIALTY ELECTIVE – One course*

MRKG 1301 – Customer Relationship Management

CHOOSE ONE: 

 

MRKG 2333 – Principles of Selling This is the capstone course for this award.

 

*Specialty Electives must be selected from the following courses: FSHN 1312, FSHN 2301, MRKG 1313, MRKG 1371, MRKG 2312, MRKG 2371, MRKG 2372

SEMESTER 1 ACTION ITEMS

  1. Meet with your success coach to confirm academic and career goals before the end of the semester.
  2. Meet with your success coach to research career options and opportunities for job shadowing.
  3. Meet with your success coach to apply for the Sales and Marketing Professional Certificate.

    Total Hours: 18​​  

DALLAS COLLEGE PATHWAY TOTAL: 18 SEMESTER CREDIT HOURS

Updated August 13, 2025