Family/Consumer Science, BS

Professional Education Core Requirements

Candidates for an initial teaching license must complete a major in Birth-Grade 3: Inclusive Settings, a major in Elementary Education, a major in Instructional Strategist II: Behavior Disorders/ Learning Disabilities/Intellectual Disabilities, or a major in a secondary teaching subject area. Candidates must complete the approved professional education core courses.

Program Student Learning Outcomes

• Considers Contextual Factors: The teacher uses information about the learning-teaching context and student individual differences to set learning outcomes and plan instruction and assessment.
• Identifies Learning Outcomes: The teacher sets significant, challenging, varied, and appropriate learning outcomes.
• Establishes Assessment Plan: The teacher uses multiple assessment modes and approaches aligned with learning outcomes to assess student learning before, during, and after instruction.
• Creates Design for Instruction: The teacher designs instruction for specific learning outcomes, student characteristics and needs, and learning contexts
• Makes Instructional Decisions: The teacher uses ongoing analysis of student learning to make instructional decisions.
• Analyzes Student Learning: The teacher uses assessment data to profile student learning and communicate information about student progress and achievement.
• Reflects and Evaluates Professional Practices: The teacher analyzes the relationship between his or her instruction and student learning to improve teaching practice.

Required Courses within the Major

• APP 255 Garment Construction 3 Credits (DMACC)
• APP 261 Fashion Industry Analysis 3 Credits (DMACC)
• BIO 165 - Human Biology and Nutrition 3 Credit(s)
• ECE 223 - Health, Safety, and Nutrition in Early Childhood 3 Credit(s)
• ECE 451 - Introduction to Early Childhood 3 Credit(s)
• EDU 30012 - Teaching Secondary Family/Consumer Science 3 Credit(s)
• EDU 307 - Field Experience I: Secondary 3 Credit(s)
• EDU 322 - Field Experience II: Secondary 2 Credit(s)
• EDU 425 - Content Area Literacy 3 Credit(s)
• EDU 428 - Middle School Curriculum, Design and Strategies 3 Credit(s)
• FIN 288 - Personal Financial Management 3 Credit(s)
• HSV 361 - Marriage and the Family 3 Credit(s)
• INT 114 Interior Design Materials 3 Credits (DMACC)
• Finishing 3 INT 124 Interior Design Analysis 3 Credits (DMACC)
• SPED 459 - Home, School and Community Relations 3 Credit(s)

Total Credits: 67