Orientation to FCSE is designed to introduce students to the many facets of Family and Consumer Sciences Education. These include food science and nutrition, personal finance, family financial resource management, textiles and clothing, housing and interiors, child development and parenting, and human development and family relations. This class will help begin to prepare students for a career as an FCS educator in secondary schools.
Orientation to FCSE serves as a prerequisite class for Family and Consumer Science Education programs at a few four-year universities in the state. This class is intended to transfer over to Utah State University and Brigham Young University that both provide the Family and Consumer Science Education program. This course is designed to introduce the basic concepts of Family and Consumer Science Education to prospective FCS educators striving to teach in secondary schools.
This course will address the following content in its curriculum: food science and human nutrition, personal finance, family financial resource management, textiles and clothing, housing and interiors, child development and parenting, human development and family relations.As this class is for educators, the students will be exposed to techniques and skills that will address different perspectives and ideas, use materials to touch a variety of backgrounds, and include content that will matter to all students involved.