| OPEN TO GRADES: | 9 |
| PREREQUISITES: | None |
| LENGTH OF COURSE | 1 year |
| CREDIT: | 1 credit/Elective |
| COURSE DESCRIPTION: | This course introduces students to the basic areas of home economics and serves as a foundation for the delivery of the home economics programs provided through the Christian-Montgomery Counties Regional Delivery System. Learning experiences assist students in understanding themselves, their roles in today's society and the nature of homemaking and other home economics related careers. |
| OPEN TO GRADES: | 10, 11, 12 |
| PREREQUISITES: | None |
| LENGTH OF COURSE | 1 semester |
| CREDIT: | ½ credit/Elective |
| COURSE DESCRIPTION: | This course promotes knowledge and understanding of basic food principles and applied nutrition for people of all ages. The curriculum addresses food service and preparation management using the decision-making process; meeting basic needs by applying nutrition concepts; meeting health and safety needs in planning, preparing and serving nutritional meals; maximizing resources when planning, preparing and serving food; promoting hospitality and food etiquette practices; and analyzing individual and family nutritional needs. Career information related to the foods industry is included in various units of the curriculum. |
| OPEN TO GRADES: | 10, 11, 12 |
| PREREQUISITES: | None |
| LENGTH OF COURSE | 1 semester |
| CREDIT: | ½ credit/Elective |
| COURSE DESCRIPTION: | This course provides learning experiences that will help students understand the intellectual, physical, social and emotional development of children from conception through school age. The course focuses on managing and organizing child development by applying decision-making and good goal setting skills; promoting child development by applying physical, social, intellectual and emotional principles; practicing health and safety standards for children; providing experiences which encourage children to maximize resources encouraging human relations skills in children; and evaluating family and career changes in relation to impact on children. Information and material related to careers in child care is incorporated throughout the course. |
| OPEN TO GRADES: | 12 |
| PREREQUISITES: | None (Completion of Child Development class highly recommended) Application and/or Interview required for enrollment |
| LENGTH OF COURSE: | 1Year/2 hours per day |
| CREDIT: | 2 credits/Elective |
| COURSE DESCRIPTION: | This two-hour course is designed to provide students interested in a career in child and day care operations or in education with information and practical experiences needed for the development of job-related competencies. Students will be provided laboratory experiences either in a school-based or extended campus facility. Students will be expected to develop appropriate skills in program development and in assisting with children and/or adults with activities. Classroom study will include child development principles and the skills needed to successfully guide children while keeping them healthy and safe. The program will combine a minimum of 120 classroom hours of instruction with a possible 480 hours of direct, hands-on experience working with children at a day care facility culminating with a chance to earn the Child Development Associate Credentials. Application and/or interview required for enrollment. |
| OPEN TO GRADES: | 11, 12 |
| PREREQUISITES: | None |
| LENGTH OF COURSE | 1 semester |
| CREDIT: | ½ credit/Elective or Required |
| COURSE DESCRIPTION: | This course assists students in understanding how to achieve life satisfaction as responsible adults functioning in the home, community and work place. The course will help individuals learn how to respond to situations in terms of established values and goals and will focus on communication skills that are essential to the development of effective relationships. Management skills essential to effective decision making will be stressed so that students learn to act responsibly as consumers. The impact of family and career changes on the individual will also be analyzed. This course currently meets the consumer education requirement for all students. |
| OPEN TO GRADES: | 11, 12 |
| PREREQUISITES: | None |
| LENGTH OF COURSE | 1 semester |
| CREDIT: | 1/2 credit/elective |
| COURSE DESCRIPTION: | This course provides students with information and training needed to select, acquire, maintain and manage living environments that meet the needs of the family unit and additionally addresses knowledge and skills needed to make decisions about the use of resources and prevention strategies which contribute to an improved quality of life. Emphasis is placed on the application of management principals related to environment and on analyzing consumer management skills necessary for making good decisions in the market place. |
Last Updated: February 21, 2008