Nutrition & Dietetics: Family & Consumer Sciences Required Courses

Required Courses

Course Name	Number	Title	Credits
FCS	251	Family Resource Management	3
FCS	320	Professional Practice for Family and Consumer Sciences	3
FCS	300	Early Childhood Curriculum I	3
FCS	301	Early Childhood Curriculum II	3
FCS	411B	Family & Consumer Sciences Methods/Vocational Education	3
FCS	145	A Behavioral Approach to Textiles & Housing	3
FCS	448	Community Service	3
FCS	451	Family Life Studies	3
FCS	452	Parentology	3
ND	103	Basic & Culinary Foods	3
ND ND	111 112	Basic Nutrition or Nutrition I (online course)	3
		General Elective	3
Total FCS Credits			36

The following courses are required for Family and Consumer Sciences, and they fulfill requirements for the Liberal Arts Component.

Course Name	Number	Title	Credits
BIOL	107	Sexually Trasmitted Diseases (fulfills science elective)	3
BIOL	130	Principles of Anatomy & Physiology (fulfills math/science elective)	3
SSCI	425	Children Rights & Societal Responses (fulfills social science elective)	3

The following courses are required to fulfill the professional education component for the Family and Consumer Science program.

Course Name	Number	Title	Credit
EDUC	000	Field Experience	Ongoing
EDUC	100,101	Introduction to Education	(.5,.5) 1
PSY	251	Developmental Psychology	3 (prerequisite to EDUC 311)
EDUC	311	Educational Psychology	3
EDUC	411A	Effective Instruction in Secondary and K-12 Education	3
EDUC	442	Student Teaching	(6,6) 12
S ED	152	Orientation to Exceptionalities	2
Total Education Credits			27

Note: HIS 105 Minorities in the Modern World is required to fulfill the history elective (global and interdisciplinary).

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