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FCS Classes Offered

Child Development 1

This course focuses on human development from birth to three years of age in the areas of cognitive, physical, social, and emotional development. These topics included pregnancy, infant care, toddlerhood, and parenting of the child. Infant simulators will be distributed for student practice.

Career Pathway: Education & Training and Human Services

Possible Career Opportunities: Social Worker, Counselor, Teacher, Coach, Daycare Provider, Nurse

Child Development 2: Integrated Child Development

Integrated Child Development students study the physical, social, emotional, and intellectual development of children from preschool through age 12. Other areas addressed include child development principles and theory, family relationships, health and safety of children, middle childhood, school-age program management & professionalism. Students will observe children as well as implement activities/lessons with school-age children in an individual, small group, or class setting.

Career Pathway: Education & Training and Human Services

Possible Career Opportunities: Teacher, School Administrator, Social Worker, School Counselor, Child Psychologist

Culinary Arts 1 

Students will demonstrate food safety and sanitation procedures, justify the correct use and maintenance of food production equipment and tools, apply scaling and measuring techniques, demonstrate basic knife skills, demonstrate preparation of menu items, and demonstrate garnishing and presentation techniques. Students will explore breakfast, lunch, appetizers, dinner, and desserts. Students will apply menu management and production principles as it relates to hospitality.

Career Pathway: Hospitality & Tourism

Possible Career Opportunities: Restaurant Owner, Chef, Restaurant Manager, Event Planner

Culinary Arts 2: Baking

Culinary Arts 2 helps build a foundation of principles and skills of baking, and then using specific applications and recipes. Students will explore culinary baking topics, baking recipe planning and preparation, preparing recipes, and the science behind baking. Students will apply the knowledge and skills of how basic ingredients function, baking/pastry vocabulary, and mixing techniques to produce baking/pastry products based on industry standards. Students will develop skills in basic bread and pastry techniques to produce breads, muffins, biscuits, pies, cakes, pastries, and specialized desserts.

Career Pathway: Hospitality & Tourism

Possible Career Opportunities: Restaurant/Cafe Owner, Pastry Chef, Restaurant Manager, Event Planner

Cultural Foods

Building upon the foundation of previous culinary courses, students will gain a general understanding of international and national cuisines by exploring various geographic regions around the world and the United States. Students explore the traditions/customs, geographic food production, and baking/cooking techniques while using major ingredients of specific cuisines. 

Career Pathway: Hospitality & Tourism

Possible Career Opportunities: Restaurant Owner, Chef, Restaurant Manager, Event Planner, Travel Agent, Travel Blogger/Influencer

Food & Nutrition

This course will cover basic nutrition and application of basic principles of food selection and preparation. Basic cooking principles and cooking practices for specific foods; such as vegetables, fruits, eggs, milk, breads, pastry and protein foods will be covered. Students will develop a cooking foundation.

Career Pathway: Hospitality & Tourism

Possible Career Opportunities: Restaurant Manager, Line Cook, Food Industry Worker

Interior Design

This course enables creativity exploration in the field of interior design. Identification of the elements and principles of design are emphasized. Other topics included are housing choices, floor plans and careers. Projects are integrated throughout the course to provide applications as students study: architecture,furniture styles and construction, surface treatments and backgrounds, design and function of space. There will be a creative stitchery or sewing project (students can make something to be used at home). Students may also redesign, reuse or refinish a piece of furniture from home or through a donation.

Career Pathway: Visual Arts & Design

Possible Career Opportunities: Interior Designer, Home furnishing designer, Textile designer, Packaging Engineer, Sales

Life & Relationships

Students learn about how family’s function and personal identity is formed, the course also addresses skills necessary in everyday life. Students will evaluate concepts of self-discovery, goal setting, decision-making, relationships with your family and peers, the decision to marry, problems in marriage and the decision to parent, and to make life and career choices.

Career Pathway: Human Services

Possible Career Opportunities: Counselor, Social Worker, Sociologist, Cosmetologist, Life Coach

7th Grade FCS & 8th Grade FCS

These classes are exploratory classes that provide a introduction to the world of Family and Consumer Sciences. Students will learn basics of baking and cooking, kitchen safety and sanitation, basics of babysitting, elements and principles of design, and basic sewing skills through hand and machine sewing projects. 

Career Pathway: Human Services, Visual Arts & Design, Hospitality & Tourism, Education & Training

Possible Career Opportunities: Cook, Restaurant management, Babysitter/Childcare Provider, Interior Designer, Fashion Designer, Seamstress