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Welcome to the State College High School Family & Consumer Science Program!
Welcome to the State College High School Family & Consumer Science Program!
Mission Statement:
Mission Statement:
The mission of Family and Consumer Sciences is "To manage with reason and creativity the challenges across the lifespan of living and working in a global society." --Task Force-Future Directions in Family and Consumer Sciences
“Family and consumer sciences (FCS) is the comprehensive body of skills, research, and knowledge that helps people make informed decisions about their well being, relationships, and resources to achieve optimal quality of life. The field represents many areas, including human development, personal and family finance, housing and interior design, food science, nutrition, and wellness, textiles and apparel, and consumer issues.” --American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences
The curriculum engages students in practical problem solving, including practical reasoning, to clarify personal and family issues, to evaluate alternative choices and their consequences,to develop criteria and standards for making ethical choices, and take action based on the best consequences for self, family, and others.
Family and Consumer Sciences encompasses the academic areas of foods and nutrition, clothing and textiles and human development.
Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
Are there prerequisites?
There aren't prerequisites to take our courses and almost all courses can be taken any time!
*Senior Foods is limited to 12th grade students only.
Are the food and nutrition courses a part of the CTC Culinary Arts program?
We are not a part of Culinary Arts, and our courses are for everyone!
Family & Consumer Science Teachers
Family & Consumer Science Teachers
Courtney Beers & Julie Simmons
Courtney Beers & Julie Simmons
Understanding Young Children
Understanding Young Children
Senior Foods
Senior Foods
Baking 101
Baking 101
Foods and Nutrition
Foods and Nutrition
Baking 101 (S251) - Credits .5
Suggested Grade: 9-12
Description: Everything you want and need to know about baking delicious cakes, pastry, cookies and breads. This is a semester length course that requires no previous experience or courses. Baking several times a week ensures that you will know all the basics to move on to more advanced bakery products. Highlights include friendly competition bake-offs, construction of a Gingerbread house, and a final Baker’s Showcase.
Fabulous Foods (S263) - Credits .5
Suggested Grade: 9-12
Description: Students gave this course its name! Fabulous Foods is a semester length course. Students will discover the Fabulous Foods that were introduced into American cuisine through a tasting timeline. The course will tour through the Fabulous Foods of the regions of America and the world.
Highlights include Italian, French and Thai cuisine.
This course will cover a variety of skills, techniques, and culinary wonders in each unit. Weekly meals, demonstrations and regional traditions will transform the palate of each student as if they were seasoned world travelers.
Senior Foods (S262) - Credits .5
Grade Level: 12
Description: The course you’ve been waiting to take, Senior Foods, is a semester length course in foods and cooking for life. The course includes labs and demonstrations in the following units of study: breads, soups, pasta, pastry, salads, vegetables, poultry, meats and convenience cooking. Basic preparation skills,microwave cooking and the use of small appliances are emphasized throughout the semester. Several field trips are taken throughout the course. Students prepare recipes from each unit. Examples of recipes selected are: pizza, pasta, apple pie, specialty pies, fajitas, stir-fry dishes and more. A popular feature of the course is a unit where students use convenience products to prepare many different parts of the meal. Recipes are updated to reflect current food trends and student tastes.
Human Development
Human Development
Understanding Young Children (S264) - Credits .5
Suggested Grade: 9-12
Description: Understanding Young Children is a semester length course that combines child development and parenting. Through the use of simulations such as the Real Care Infants, and actual preschool experience in the Playroom program, students observe and participate in many interactions. Learning to communicate with young children and respond in positive, supportive ways to their needs is stressed throughout the course. Students enhance the play and learning of the young child through planning and leading activities in art, music, literature, foods, games, science, math and crafts.
High school students who enroll in this course will be working with young children. Thus, they are required to have a current health record, proof of recent TB screening and adequate immune status, these requirements must be met by the student at the beginning of the coursework. All paperwork must be submitted to the teacher or CTC office.
Clothing and Textiles
Clothing and Textiles
Fashion & Technology (S527) - Credits .5
Suggested Grade Level: 9-12
Description: Fashion and Technology is a semester length course designed to immerse you in fashion and design. Immediately you will begin with color and design theory. Construction techniques are taught as you make the projects of your choice. The latest technology is included in machines including sergers and embroidery machines.
The topics included are what is best for you and your wardrobe, buying it right, knowing before sewing, and the technology involved in starting to sew and use textiles. You are required to furnish materials for the projects you choose to complete.
Fashion and Technology can be elected more than once as a different set of skills are learned each time the course is elected.
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