Family and Consumer Sciences Major

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PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES

Students who complete the program in Family and Consumer Sciences will be able to:

  1. Identify physical, cognitive, emotional, and social development in the successive stages of life.
  2. Demonstrate knowledge of physical, emotional, and social influences on quality of life throughout the life cycle.
  3. Evaluate the effects of society and culture upon the well-being of individuals, families, and communities.
  4. Identify food and nutrition foundation principles and their application to human development.
  5. Assess safety principles related to the physical and emotional well-being of individuals.
  6. Analyze and evaluate current societal issues research as related to individual family well-being.
  7. Describe cultural differences for daily choices in food, housing, and parenting among diverse family systems.
  8. Assess ethical standards and treatment of others for individuals in family and consumer sciences careers.
  9. Identify career paths and assess appropriate career plans for identifying professional areas of service within the family and consumer sciences profession.

LOWER-DIVISION REQUIREMENTS

COURSE  TITLE UNITS
FCS 101
 Introduction to Family and Consumer Sciences  1
FCS 110 Fundamentals of Food 2
FCS 150 Human Development 3
FCS 220 Problems of Family Housing 2
FCS 230
Personal and Consumer Financial Management 2
PHL 211 Ethics   3
SOC 201 Cultural Anthropology  3
  TOTAL 16

UPPER-DIVISION REQUIREMENTS

COURSE TITLE UNITS
FCS 300 Food Economics and Management  2
FCS 303 Cultural Foods  2
FCS 305 Life Cycle Nutrition 4
FCS 315
Personal, Family, and Community Health 3
FCS 385 Family and Parenting 2
FCS 420
 Child Development in Family and Community  4
FCS 480
Family and Consumer Sciences Internship 2
FCS 497
Family and Consumer Sciences Senior Seminar 2
   TOTAL  21
Lower-division or upper-division: 20  units (selected from below)
FCS 105 Apparel Construction  2
FCS 115 Introduction to Interior Design  3
FCS 120 Child and Adolescent Development  4
FCS 130 Fashion Industry  3
FCS 310 Early Childhood Education 4
FCS 340 Nutrition in Women's Wellbeing  2
FCS 370 Apparel in Human Behavior and Culture  2
FCS 435 Food Service Production and Management 3
FCS 460 Administration and Supervision in Early Childhood Education 4
PSY 320 Social Psychology  3
PSY 321 Abnormal Psychology  3
PSY 325
 Clinical and Community Interventions  4
SOC 316 Sociology and Aging  3
SOC 360 Ethnic and Status Groups  3
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