Family and Consumer Sciences Education
Vocational Family and Consumer Sciences
Education provides an entry to one of the hottest professions in the
nation - teacher shortages are likely to be a major factor until the
year 2005. With rising demand, and salaries that are quite
competitive, persons with an inclination to serve, and still make a
decent living may well be advised to examine the career path of FCS
Education.
Having a sincere desire to help others is, of
course, a necessary ingredient in becoming a successful teacher.
Some additional qualities include:
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Patience
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Creativity
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Organizational ability
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Empathic understanding
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Communication skills
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Good
judgment
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Career Opportunities
- Preschool teacher
- Middle school teacher
- High school teacher
- Adult educator
- Cooperative extension
- Consumer service consultant
- Human resource manager
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- Product design/testing
- Welfare advisor
- Energy specialist
- Health care director
- Hospital educator
- Specialist in aging agency
- Corporate consultant
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Course Requirements
Vocational Family & Consumer Science
Education
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FCS core:
- FCS 107 - Historical & Cont Persp
- FCS 410 - Family and Consumer Sciences Capstone Seminar
Child Development/Family Life
- HLTH 111 - Personal Health Science and Wellness
- FCS 336 - Family Relationships
- FCS 438 - Child Development
- FCS 436 - Child and Family
Food and Nutrition
- FCS 201 - Fundamentals of Nutrition
- FCS 226 - Fundamentals of Foods
- FCS 421 - Nutrition through the Life Cycle or
- FCS 426 - World Hunger and Nutrition or
- FCS 427 - Cultural Aspects of Food or
- FCS 428 - Food Science or
- FCS 429 - Nutrition in Wellness
Family Economics/Home Mg't
- FCS 301 - Fam Mgt. Dec. Making
- FCS 475 - Consumer Education
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Housing-Equip't & Home Furnish's
- FCS 150 -Introducation to Interior Design
- FCS 366 - Res Equip't & Energy
Textiles, Apparel, Merchandising
- FCS 111 Clothing I or
- FCS 211 - Intermediate Clothing or
- FCS 212 - Evaluation of Ready-to-Wear Apparel
- FCS 216 - Introduction to Fashion Merchandising
- FCS 217 - Textiles I
Family and Cons Science Education
- FCS 402 - Teaching an Integrated Unit
- FCS 491 -Methods of FCS Educ
- FCS 498 - Intro Coord of Coop Ed.
- FCS elective
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* Students are urged to select electives
leading to completion of the Family Life Education Minor. The
recommendation is also made to select FCS 498 as an elective on the
Family and Consumer Sciences Education Program in order to have
cours e work completed for Occupational Family and Consumer Sciences
Education certification. Occupational certification requires 4,000
hrs. related work experience or 1,500 supervised hours.
For further information contact:
Dr. Frederica Kramer,
Chairperson
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