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**APPAREL MANAGEMENT/HOUSING ENVIRONMENTS
APPAREL MANAGEMENT
Credit: ½ Grade: 10,
11, 12
Course Length: ½ Term
This course emphasizes the responsibility of
individuals in coordinating, selecting, and caring for apparel. Practical
problems to be addressed relate to apparel choices, wardrobe planning, budgeting
and purchasing, and alterations and repair.
Careers in fashion merchandising, textiles, and apparel are investigated.
HOUSING ENVIRONMENTS
Credit: ½ Grade: 10,
11, 12
Course Length: ½ Term This course enables students to study the practical
problems related to acquiring housing, conserving energy, maintaining a home,
equipping and furnishing a home, designing/redesigning areas in a home and
exploring careers in housing. CAREER
AND FAMILY/RELATIONSHIPS
Credit: 1 Grade:
10, 11, 12
Course Length: Term This course is designed to help students realize the
level of commitment required to manage a career and family.
It will assist students in developing the skills needed to resolve family
and work issues. The impact of a career will be explored as to how it affects
family goals, financial goals, and personal values. CHILD/HUMAN
DEVELOPMENT
Credit:
1 Grade:
9, 10, 11, 12
Course Length: Term This course addresses the practical problems related
to understanding the types and stages of human growth and development, recognizing effects
of heredity and environment on human growth and development, meeting the needs
of exceptional children, promoting optimum growth and development in the
infancy, toddler, preschool, middle childhood, adolescent, and adulthood stages.
Careers in child/human development are explored.
Leadership development will be provided through the FCCLA Club. CHILD DEVELOPMENT I
Credit:
1
Grade: 10, 11, 12
Course Length: Term
Prerequisite:
Prior or concurrent enrollment in Child/Human Development.
Child Development I is an entry class for students
interested in pursuing a career in early childhood education, nursery school,
day care centers, or social work. A
simulated child care center (Busy Bee Playschool) will provide training, skills,
and experience for understanding the growth and development of preschoolers.
The childcare class is designed to meet the requirements for Tech Prep. CHILD
DEVELOPMENT II
Credit: 3 Grade:
11, 12
Course Length: 2 Terms Prerequisite:
Child
Development I. This class is an advanced child care experience.
The students will study child care and development, do bulletin boards,
work on thematic units and take field trips for one block the first term.
During the second term, the student will go out to various day cares,
preschools, and elementary schools throughout the community for hands-on
experience with children and shadowing of employers for two blocks. This is a Tech Prep program. CHILD CARE CAREER COOP
Credit: 1
or 2 Grade:
12
Course Length: 1 or 2
Terms Prerequisite:
Child Care Career Major and teacher appproval.
This class allows students who have successfully
completed Child Development I and II to gain additional work experience with
children. The students may be paid
for this work experience. This
course will be scheduled according to individual student needs. FOODS/CULINARY SKILLS
Credit: 1 Grade:
11, 12
Course Length: Term This
course includes the study of planning and preparing various foods.
Some of the techniques covered include: making breads, cake baking and
decorating, and microwave cooking. The
hospitality industry is a growing area of food service.
Students will be introduced to planning and preparing of receptions,
catered events, and other occasions. Practical problems addressed will relate to
attitudes toward food, nutrition facts, special health concerns, diets, and
management of food resources. Foods
is a core elective for Tech Prep. HOSPITALITY
SERVICES COOP
Credit:
l or 2
Grade:
12
Course Length: 1 or 2 Terms Prerequisite:
Hospitality Services Career Major and teacher approval. This
class is a work-based learning experience in the hospitality industry.
PARENTING
Credit: l
Grade: 10,
11, 12
Course Length: Term
Parenting is designed to aid students in developing
effective parenting and care giving skills and develop a better understanding of
individuals within the family. This
course provides an introduction to parenting and child development issues, such
as parental care, growth and development, and child care careers.
Field trips, guest speakers, and the use of community resources reinforce
classroom studies. Students interested in careers in education, psychology,
sociology and care giving will benefit from this course. *NUTRITIONAL SCIENCE
Credit: 1
Grade:
10, 11, 12
Course Length: Term
Nutritional Science is a course that has a variety of
applications to everyday life and many careers. Much of the study and work in this course is directed toward
providing students with knowledge of nutritional concepts and the various
relationships between nutrition and science.
Scientific methods are used to conduct laboratory experiments with food.
Students explore career possibilities in medical science, nutrition,
microbiology, family and consumer sciences, dietetics, and various research
specialties. LIFE SKILLS
Credit: 1 Grade: 9, 10, 11, 12
Course Length: Term
This course introduces the student to basic skills
needed to live in today’s world. Emphasis
is on work and family, adolescent development, selection and care of clothing,
consumer spending, housing choices, challenges of raising children, and guidance
in establishing relationships. INTRODUCTION TO FOOD SERVICE AND HOSPITALITY
Credit:
1 Grade: 9, 10
Course Length: Term
An introduction to basic foods and hospitality with
an emphasis in food preparation, nutrition, and food careers.
This class will include labs designed for the student interested in food
service and hospitality. SPECIALIZED SERVICE IN HOSPITALITY
Credit:
1 Grade: 10, 11, 12
Course Length: Term This course is designed to provide training in the
hospitality field. Job and career
opportunities will be explored. Instruction
will include skills development and food labs.
Shadowing and work experiences in a variety of commercial establishments
such as restaurants, catering, hotels, and motels will be included.
The following
courses will be offered every other year:
*This course is scheduled to be offered for the 2001-2002 school year:
Nutritional Science
**This course is scheduled to be offered for the 2002-2003 school year:
Apparel Management/Housing Environments
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