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Course Descriptions for Family and Consumer Sciences
Foods/Nutrition I--K50
Prerequisite: None
Grade Level: 9-12
This course includes basic classroom/laboratory experiences to develop knowledge and
understanding of basic food principles and applied nutrition for people of all ages.
The course content includes: promoting food service and preparation management using
the decision-making process, meeting basic needs by applying nutrition concepts, meeting
health/safety needs, maximizing resources when planning, preparing, and serving food,
promoting hospitality in food practices, and analyzing individual and family nutritional
needs. Information related to careers in foods and nutrition is included in this course.
Foods/Nutrition II -- K51
Prerequisite: Foods/Nutrition I
Grade Level: 9-12
This course provides an introduction to commercial food service, preparation, and
management. Course content will include the areas of careers in foods and nutrition,
influences of food customs, requirements for diet and health, discussion of current
nutritional issues, planning for special food needs, safety of foods, planning of
food purchasing, prevention of food related illnesses and practice of food preservation.
Laboratory sessions are devoted to preparation of foods with specific characteristics.
Food Service Occupations I/II -- K52/K53
Prerequisite: Foods/Nutrition I/II
Grade Level: 10-12
This course is designed to provide students interested in a career in food service
with the information and practical experiences required for the development of food
service job-related competencies. Laboratory experiences include: using commercial
food service equipment at a school-based site, preparing food in quantity, and serving
food. Emphasis is placed on the areas of safety and sanitation, management skills,
human relations, personnel selection, and supervision.
Child Development I/II -- K74/K75
Prerequisite None
Grade Level: 10-12
This course emphasizes learning experiences that help students gain knowledge and
understanding of the intellectual, physical, social and emotional development of children
from conception through adolescence. This course will include: managing and organizing
child development by applying decision making and goal setting skills, promoting child
development by applying physical, social, intellectual, and emotional principles,
practicing health and safety standards for children, providing experiences which encourage
children to maximize resources; encouraging human relation skills in children, evaluating
family and career changes in relation to the impact on children, and exploring career
opportunities in child care. Provisions will be made for students to conduct a nursery
school during the second semester.
Fashion Construction I -- K60
Prerequisite None
Grade Level: 9-12
This course is planned to provide students opportunities to construct sewing projects.
A knowledge and understanding of fibers and fabrics which will assist them in meeting
the clothing and fabric product needs of themselves, family and/or general public
will be studied. The course content centers around pattern, sewing equipment and notion
selection, fitting a garment, use and care of the sewing machine and garment care.
Skills that will help lead to employability of the students will be introduced. Career
and job information will be related to the textile and fashion field throughout the
semester. Students will also cover employability skills.
Fashion Construction II -- K61
Prerequisite Fashion Construction I
Grade Level: 9-12
This course is planned to provide students opportunities to develop knowledge and
understanding of textiles, fashions and fabrics and to assist them in meeting the
clothing and fashion product needs of themselves, families and the consumer industries.
The content includes developing student competencies in the areas of selecting clothing
and textile products using goal-making skills, wardrobe evaluation and planning, design
elements for personal selection and wardrobe, caring for clothing/textile products
and constructing, altering, repairing and remodeling clothing/textile products. Fashion
Merchandising and related skills that will help lead to the employability of the student
will be introduced. Career and job information relating to the fashion industry will
also be introduced during the semester.
Fashion Merchandising I/II -- K62/K63
Prerequisite: Junior or Senior Standing
Grade Level: 11, 12
Fashion Merchandising I students will learn to recognize the wide range of skills
utilized in retail merchandising and marketing. Topics to be covered include the historical
development of fashion, characteristics and significance of fashion retailing, elements
of design as they relate to merchandising and a market comparison of a constructed
fashion garment. Fashion Merchandising II students will further explore the world
of fashion merchandising as it relates to a retail clothing business. Students will
study consumer buying habits, and develop and market a product. Students will handle
all aspects of the business including production, distribution and sales.
Marriage and Family Living -- K71
Prerequisite None
Grade Level: 11-12
This course consists of a study of the individual as a member of society and of a
family. It has been designed to help students explore the areas of personality development,
communication, problems with family, changing roles of men and women, contemporary
attitudes toward sex in our culture, dating, teenage marriages, engagement, marriage,
marital adjustments, and parenting.
Independent Study: Home Economics Occupations -- K99
Course Number: K99
Prerequisite: Assistant Principal Teaching & Learning Approval
Grade Level: 12
Independent Study is designed for those students who have a special field of interest
they wish to pursue which is not available in the regular offerings. Acceptance for
Independent Study requires a conference with the Assistant Principal Teaching &
Learning, completion of an application, presentation of a project, and availability
of a faculty sponsor who is knowledgeable in the field. Students enrolled in this
course must have enough self-discipline to fulfill a contract without structured supervision.
Papers, seminars, and regular conferences are required. Students must have completed
all available courses related to the project.
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