Family and Consumer Sciences (FACS)
FACS 1060 Healthy Lifestyles
3.0 credit hours
45.0 Classroom Hours = 45.0 Lecture Hours
This course will enable students to apply principles of healthy living including nutrition, exercise, stress reduction, arranging and maintaining a safe environment to their personal and professional life. Special emphasis placed on supporting families as they incorporate goals of healthy living into their daily activities.
FACS 1110 Infant Toddler Development
3.0 credit hours
45.0 Classroom Hours = 45.0 Lecture Hours
This course focuses on typical / atypical development of children in the prenatal period of development through 36 months. Planning curriculum in the domains of physical growth and motor skills, cognition and language, and social/emotional development are examined.
FACS 1120 Preschool Child Development
3.0 credit hours
45.0 Classroom Hours = 45.0 Lecture Hours
This course focuses on typical/atypical development of the child ages 3 through 5 years in the domains of physical growth and motor skills, cognition and language, and social/emotional development across diverse settings.
FACS 1210 Design Essentials
3.0 credit hours
60.0 Classroom Hours = 30.0 Lecture Hours + 30.0 Lab Hours
Development of appreciation of aesthetically pleasing line, space, shape, color, form, and texture; judgment in the use of things pertaining to everyday living. Selecting, evaluating, and arranging many forms of art expression.
FACS 1230 Clothing & Human Behavior
3.0 credit hours
45.0 Classroom Hours = 45.0 Lecture Hours
Analysis of social, cultural, aesthetic and economic influences on clothing and human behavior.
FACS 1410 Food Preparation
3.0 credit hours
75.0 Classroom Hours = 30.0 Lecture Hours + 45.0 Lab Hours
Fundamental and scientific principles of food preparation with emphasis on composition, quality control, and nutritive contributions. Includes cultural, social, and economic issues related to food selection. Fee $25.
FACS 1600 Human Development
3.0 credit hours
45.0 Classroom Hours = 45.0 Lecture Hours
A developmental life cycle approach to the study of the individual from conception to old age including death. Each stage of life is studied from the perspective of how individual development is fostered within the family system.
FACS 2070 Family & Community Relationships
3.0 credit hours
55.0 Classroom Hours = 45.0 Lecture Hours + 10.0 Lab Hours
This course focuses on the development of skills, techniques and attitudes needed to form successful collaboration with diverse family systems and communities. Ten hours of community service learning required.
FACS 2300 Visual Merchandising
3.0 credit hours
45.0 Classroom Hours = 45.0 Lecture Hours
Fundamentals of planning promotional activities and store design in the current retail environment. Design principles will be discussed in relationship to in-store and window displaying, signage, and general merchandising within a context of a store image, salesmanship, and promotion.
FACS 2450 Family & Consumer Sciences Intern
2.0 credit hours
120.0 Classroom Hours = 120.0 Lab Hours
The student enrolled in this course receives work experience in approved training stations, supervised by the college coordinator and the employer. The student is compensated for his/her services. The occupational areas include fashion merchandising, food services, interior design, and other related FACS occupations. Prerequisite: Enrollment in a Family and Consumer Sciences program, current enrollment in the Related Studies Seminar, and permission of instructor.
FACS 2500 Family & Consumer Sciences Intern
3.0 credit hours
180.0 Classroom Hours = 180.0 Lab Hours
The student enrolled in this course receives work experience in approved training stations, supervised by the college coordinator and the employer. The student may be compensated for his/her services. The occupational areas include fashion merchandising, food services, interior design, human services and other related FACS occupations. Prerequisite: Enrollment in a Family and Consumer Sciences program, current enrollment in the Related Studies Seminar, and permission of instructor.
FACS 2980 Directed Study
3.0 credit hours
45.0 Classroom Hours = 45.0 Lecture Hours
Directed Study.
FACS 2990 Special Topics
3.0 credit hours
45.0 Classroom Hours = 45.0 Lecture Hours
Special topic course description upon request.