Course Length: Year
Credits: 10
Prerequisite: None
College Prep: No
For men only! This course is designed to teach everything a guy needs to know to survive on his own after high school. Topics covered include: cooking, laundry and clothing care, cleaning and home care, making home repairs, money management, children and how to be the dad your child needs, buying a house, dating and how to understand women, marriage and how to avoid divorce, buying and maintaining a car. This class is limited to 20 students.
Course Length: Year
Credits: 10
Prerequisite: None
College Prep: No
The student will study the development of the child from the time of conception until birth. Included will be the interaction of the emotional, physical, mental, and social needs of the child for the prevention of illness and accident, and for enabling the child to achieve his/her fullest developmental potential. The course continues by studying the specific needs of children from birth to age 13 as related to diet, clothing, housing, and developmental patterns and needs.
Course Length: Semester
Credits: 5
Prerequisite: None
College Prep: No
This course focuses upon the necessary clothing practices for daily living such as clothing consumerism practices, the care and maintencance of clothing, clothing design, and construction of garments.
Course Length: Year
Credits: 10
Prerequisite: None
College Prep: No
This is a comprehensive home economics course covering the areas of management, consumerism, related art, food and nutrition, human development, childcare, textiles, clothing, interpersonal relationships, housing, home furnishing, and household equipment.
Course Length: Year
Credits: 10
Prerequisite: None
College Prep: No
This course looks at how the American family fuctions economically, socially, and emotionally. Through simulation and problem solving, students are provided with real-life situations so they may learn necessary coping skills. Experiences will be provided in communication, value clarification, interpersonal relationships, married life, parenting, careers, and money management. This is a community-based class, therefore the students will be utilizing and going out into the community for many of their classroom projects.
Course Length: Semester (S1)
Credits 5
Prerequisite: None
College Prep: No
The student will study nutrition as it relates to athletics, weight control, fast food, and health throughout the human lifecycle. Marketing, meal planning, food preparation, time management, and the use of money and energy in the preparation of family meals will also be emphasized.
Course Length: Semester (S2)
Credits: 5
Prerequisite: None
College Prep: No
This course provides experiences in foreign cooking, metric cookery, entertaining, and specialty foods.
Course Length: Semester
Credits: 5
Prerequisite: None
College Prep: No
This course is designed to help the student understand the financial and legal issues of living on one's own. Also provided wil be experiences in housing design, and potential career opportunities in housing and design related fields.
