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Family and Consumer Sciences Course Offerings

FAMILY AND CONSUMER SCIENCES DEPARTMENT COURSE OFFERINGS

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Students will be given the opportunity to acquire accurate health information which will enable them to develop healthful attitudes and behavior patterns for a healthy lifestyle. A holistic approach of physical, mental and social health topics will be presented including communicable and non-communicable disease, healthful eating habits, stress management, substance use and abuse, and human sexuality.

Requirement: $10.00 food fee

Basic Foods is a lab-oriented class where students will make informed decisions in the areas of food selection, preparation and purchasing. Students will learn basic food preparation techniques for grain products, fruits, vegetables, dairy products, and high protein foods. Students will study and compare nutritional value, taste, cost and quality of foods. An organization of a personal recipe collection and home cooking experience will be included.

Requirements: Completion of Basic Foods or permission from instructor and $10.00 food fee

This course is for the student who has a strong understanding of food preparation skills and the desire to further enhance their culinary knowledge through lab experiences. This course introduces students to the essential knowledge and skills needed to become an asset to the food service industry. The following topics will be covered: customer service, safety and sanitation practices, equipment usage, nutrition principles, quantity food preparations and specialty food techniques.

This class will assist students in examining their skills, aptitudes and abilities and will help them identify career options. Students will be given various assessments to help them with career decisions. Students will examine some of the basic requirements of any job including designing a resume, cover letter and follow up letter as well as practice interview skills. Job shadowing experiences will be required to obtain a more realistic understanding of their career choice.

practice interview skills. Job shadowing experiences will be required to obtain a more realistic understanding of their career choice. 

This course allows students with art ability to design living environments to meet the needs of people. The course would offer students exposure to related careers in interior design such as architecture, construction management, and real estate. Students will be encouraged to think creatively and apply design principles and elements. Topics which may be included are creativity, house and furniture design, and selecting background units (walls, floors, window treatments). Field trips will be used to enhance the classroom instruction and projects when time allows. A final design project will be required.

A comprehensive course designed to prepare students for making decisions for their future, being life long learners and living independently. The responsibilities of being independent and managing resources are emphasized.

This course will include finding a place to live, nutrition and meal planning, preparing quick healthy meals, making informed consumer decisions related to buying a car, analyze insurance needs, money management, credit, cost of finance, checking accounts, savings accounts, and personal record keeping.

The focus of this class is understanding your role in your family now and in the future. You will develop skills to build a stronger, healthy family unit by learning ways to improve your communication and decision making skills. Techniques for coping with crisis and building positive relationships with family and friends throughout the life cycle will be explored. Emphasis will be placed on the social, emotional and intellectual growth that influence their relationships with family members.

Child Development helps the student understand and accept responsibility for one's own actions in relation to decisions about the choice of parenting as well as understanding the relationship between learning about children and being a nurturing parent. Units include: kinds of parents, making decisions about parenting, parenting options including adoption and abortion, pregnancy and birth defects. We study the infant and toddler years covering the physical, mental, social and emotional development of the child. A play school for 2-3 and 4 year old children may be included in this study.

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