USA

*
*Understanding daily issues
-Improves aspect of life that impact individuals, families and
communities
- aspects such as relationships, shelter, clothing and
nutrition.
-To help students prepare themselves for home and family
living
-To provide certain experiences which are preparation for
professional home economics employment
-To offer non-baccalaureate terminal functional education of
college level
-To provide minor programs for students with other majors
-To provide course requirements for a dietitian
-To provide a major in Home Economics Education at the
graduate level
 *Profession
*Professional
*Practice
*Philosophy
*
*Programs related to Family
and Consumer Sciences (Home
Economics)

-Apparel and Textile Manufacturing

-Apparel and Textile Marketing
Management
-Consumer Economics
-Consumer Services
-Family Resource Management
Studies
-Human Sciences Communication
-Retail Management and
Merchandising
*
*Family Finances
*Nutrition
*Textile
*

*Merchandising
*Family Studies
*Education
*
*Family Life Educators
*Restaurant Managers
*Financial Managers
*Weight Loss Consultants
*Visual Merchandisers
*Human resource specialists
*Consumer advocates
*Extension specialists
*Event planners
*“Doctorate degree in
the field (Ph.D.) can
lead to careers in
academia, research or
human development”
*

*Bookkeeper
*Child Care Worker
*Guidance Counselor
*Social Worker
*Teacher
*Wedding Consultant
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* Required General Education (9 credits)
* FCS 100 – Personal and Family Living
(3)
* FCS 140 – Introduction to Nutrition (3)
* HLTH 240 –Drug Education (3)
* General Ed Electives (35 credits)
* Family Consumer Science Core (3
credits)
* FCS 101 – Introduction to Family
Consumer Science (3)
* Required Courses (43 credits)
* FCS 120 – Clothing and People (2)
* FCS 150 - Food, Culture and You (3)
* FCS 270 – Family Housing (2)
* FCS 275 – Consumers in the Economy
(3)
* FCS 284 – Foundations of Family
Consumer Science Education (3)
* FCS 301 – Lifespan Development (3)
* FCS 331 – Clothing Construction and
Textiles (4)
* FCS 340 – Food Science (4), Pre: FCS
150
* FCS 400 – Culturally Diverse Family
Systems (3)
* FCS 414W – Family Policy and Ethics (3)
* FCS 478 – Family Finance (3)
* FCS 484 – Program Development in
Family Consumer Science (4)
* FCS 488 – Parenting Education (3)
* HLTH 311 – Family Life and Sex
Education (3)
* Required Professional Education (30
Credits)
* BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN HUMAN
DEVELOPMENT AND FAMILY SCIENCES
* THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN

* Family and Consumer Sciences Education

under Department of Education Studies
* THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

* College of Social Science

Department of Human Development and Family
Studies
Graduate Study - Human Development and Family
Studies - Master of Science
* MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
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* Foods and nutrition, and institutional management added
dietetics and food science.
* Child development and family relations later broadened to
human development and family relations later broadened to
human development and family relations, adding family therapy
as a specialization.
* Clothing and textiles became apparel and textiles and added
textile science and merchandising of consumer goods.
* Housing and home furnishings developed into interior design of
commercial as well as home interior design of commercial as
well as home interiors with particular emphasis on enhancing
human wellbeing.
* Consumer Economics and home management evolved into family
resource management, then family management, while
consumer economics remained a specialization.
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* https://study.com/home_economics_curriculum.html
* https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://library.na
u.edu/cf/sca/exhibits/catalogs
* https://www.princetonreview.com/college-majors/132/home-economics
* https://www.encyclopedia.com/sports-and-everyday-life/crafts-and-
household-items/home-economics/home-economics
* https://study.com/articles/Textile_Manufacturer_Job_Description_Duties_a
nd_Requirements.html
* https://study.com/directory/category/Liberal_Arts_and_Humanities/Huma
n_and_Consumer_Sciences/Apparel_and_Textile_Marketing_Management.ht
ml
* https://learn.org/directory/category/Humanities_and_Liberal_Arts/Human
_Consumer_Business_Science/Consumer_Economics.html
* https://simplicable.com/new/consumer-services
* https://study.com/directory/category/Liberal_Arts_and_Humanities/Huma
n_and_Consumer_Sciences/Retail_Management_and_Merchandising.html
* https://study.com/directory/category/Liberal_Arts_and_Humanities/Huma
n_and_Consumer_Sciences/Human_Sciences_Communication.html