4321 Child Development and Guidance
A concentration content area course that expands on the comprehensive core and prepares students to understand children’s physical, mental, emotional and social growth and development as well as provide for their care and guidance. Instruction includes prenatal developments; inherited characteristics, health and safety, guidance and discipline, cultural diversity, and child abuse and neglect. This course provides a solid foundation for any career that involves working with children, including child care and education.
4311 Consumer and Family Studies Comprehensive Core 1
The first course in a sequence of courses provides instruction in the seven content areas and leadership. The focus is on preparing students for personal and life management and providing a strong foundation for home economics careers and technology related careers. Instruction in the content areas of child development and guidance; consumer education; family and human development; fashion, textiles, and apparel; food and nutrition; housing and furnishings; individual and family health; and leadership is designed to prepare students with the knowledge, skills and attitudes to function effectively as family members, leaders, workers, and citizens.
4312 Consumer and Family Studies Comprehensive Core II
The second course in a sequence of courses, this course provides advanced instruction in the seven content areas and leadership. The course expands upon previously mastered competencies and provides the depth and breadth required to establish a strong foundation for home economics and careers and technology career paths. Instruction in the content areas – child development and guidance; consumer education; family and human development; fashion, textiles, and apparel; food and nutrition; housing and furnishings; and individual and family health and leadership – is designed to prepare students with knowledge, skills and attitudes to effectively manage work and family responsibilities and to transition to jobs and careers related to home economics careers and technology.
4341 Consumer Education
This concentration content area course expands on the comprehensive core and prepares students to understand and analyze values, needs, wants, goals and resources in order to make decisions that contribute to personal and family economic stability. Instruction includes the steps in decision making, earning an income, taxes, money management, financial planning, understanding the marketplace, selling methods, retail information, consumer rights and responsibilities, managing credit, housing decisions, and the consumer as part of the national and global economy. This course provides the background needed in a variety of careers that involve consumer information and purchasing as well as financial planning.
4310 Exploratory Home Economics (Grades 6-8)
These courses emphasize the exploration of the home economics careers and technology content areas and related career opportunities. Instruction in grades six and seven targets self-development and management, relationships with others, and preparing for family, work, and community living. In grade eight, students study parenting and child development, personal and family relationships, making consumer decisions, personal image and clothing, healthy food choices, designing living environments and development of community, leadership, citizenship and career roles.
4351 Family and Human Development
This is a concentration content area course that expands on the comprehensive core and prepares students to understand the basis, function, and significance of the interpersonal and family relations; human development; and individual needs throughout the life cycle. Instruction includes the meaning of family, quality relationships, love and commitment, marriage, major life adjustments, and parenting. This course provides the needed background for a variety of careers involved with assisting in the care of children and family, as well as the elderly.
4331 Fashion Textiles and Apparel
This concentration course expands on the comprehensive core and prepares students to understand the social, psychological, physiological aspects of fashion, textiles, and apparel. Instruction includes apparel and behavior; elements and principles of design; color theory, wardrobe planning, history of apparel, specialized clothing, wardrobe budgets, retail options, textiles, garment care, alterations, and construction. This course provides a strong foundation for entry into the fashion career pathway.
4361 Food and Nutrition
This concentration course expands on the comprehensive core and prepares students to understand the scientific principles of nutrition, the relationship of nutrition to health and well-being, and careers related to food and nutrition. Instruction includes nutrition and health, safety and emergencies, food safety and sanitation, meal management, food preparation, food purchasing, food in culture, the science of food and nutrition, food costs and production, and food technology. This course provides a solid background for a wide range of careers food science, dietetics and nutrition, as well as food service and hospitality.
4381 Housing and Furnishings
This concentration course expands on the comprehensive core and prepares students to understand the physical, psychological, and social influences on complex housing decisions. Instruction includes design principles and elements; housing decisions; materials, furnishings, accessories, and equipment; color theory; space planning; textiles and finishes; landscaping; housing and furniture styles. This course provides a solid background for a variety of careers in residential and commercial furnishings, interior design, and interior maintenance.
4391 Individual and Family Health
A specialize content area course that expands on the comprehensive core and prepares students to understand the principles of personal and family health care and the importance of responsible behavior. Instruction includes good health habits, positive mental attitudes, management of stress, good nutrition, body systems, substance use and abuse, family life, managing manipulation, relationships, pregnancy, diseases and infections, safety and emergency care and maintaining a healthy environment. This course may meet a local health requirement and provides a solid background for home economics-related careers.
4362 Nutritional Science
This is an advanced-level concentration course that includes instruction in researching information to evaluate an individual’s diet and adequacy of essential nutrients supplied in the diet, physiology and utilization of nutrients by the body, contribution of nutrients to general health, dietary needs during the life cycle, food regulations by the government agencies, impact of additives, environmental contaminants, food-borne illnesses, food faddism and quackery, cultural factors in food choices, and new food technology. This course provides a strong background for nutritional science, dietetics as well as careers related to the food industry.
4371 Resource Management
This concentration course prepares students to manage and maintain a satisfying family and work life. Instruction includes decision making; the societal and economic influences on individual and family management; values, goals, and standards; family economics; equipment selection; energy saving techniques; and the organization of activities in the home as a means of successfully combining work and family roles. Students in each career pathway would benefit from this resource management course.
4398 Other Consumer and Family Studies Course
An introductory or concentration course that prepares students to manage personal and work responsibilities as well as for related capstone courses.
