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Family and Consumer Sciences Education - B.S.E. Program Requirements

  • Early Childhood Education and Care Concentration
  • Food Management Production and Service Concentration
  • Work and Family Concentration

Type Legend: DD Diversity–Domestic; DG Diversity–Global; KAD Kent Core Additional; KBS Kent Core Basic Sciences; KCM Kent Core Composition; KFA Kent Core Fine Arts; KHU Kent Core Humanities; KMC Kent Core Mathematics and Critical Reasoning; KSS Kent Core Social Sciences; WIC Writing Intensive

Please read the sections in the University Catalog on Kent Core, diversity and writing-intensive requirements.

I. DESTINATION KENT STATE: FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE  (1 credit)
Type Course Title Credits
  US 10097 Destination Kent State: First Year Experience 1
II. MAJOR PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS (63 credits)*
Type Course Title Credits
  CI 47330 Reading and Writing in Adolescence 3

CTTE 36014 Evaluation Practices in Career Technical Education 3

  45372 Issues in Career Technical Education Subjects 3


45377 Career and Technical Education: Advanced Methodologies 3
WIC

46001 Organization of Career and Technical Education** 3
    46015 Methods of Career and Technical Education 3


46020 Curriculum Guide Design and Application 3
    46031 Student Teaching in Career Technical Education
9
 
49525 Inquiry into Professional Practice 3
  CULT 29535 Education in a Democratic Society 3

EPSY 29525 Educational Psychology 3

HED 42575 Health and Learning; Strategies for Students and Teachers 3
  HDFS 24011 Interpersonal Relationships and Families 3
    25512 Management of Family Resources
3
    44022 Changing Roles of Men and Women 3
  HM 13022 Sanitation and Safety Principles 3
  ITEC 19525 Educational Technology 3
KBS
NUTR 23511 Science of Human Nutrition 3
DD
SPED 23000 Introduction to Exceptionalities 3
III. ADDITIONAL PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS (34 credits)  
Type Course Title Credits
KBS CHEM 10050 Fundamentals of Chemistry 3
KAD COMM 15000 Introduction to Human Communications 3
KAD ECON 22060 Principles of Microeconomics 3
KHU
DG
HIST 11050 History of Civilization I 3
KHU
DG
  11051 History of Civilization II 3
KSS
DD
PSYC 11762 General Psychology 3
KSS
DD
SOC 12050 Introduction to Sociology
3
  Kent Core Basic Sciences Laboratory
1
  Kent Core Composition** 6-8
  Kent Core Fine Arts
3
  Kent Core Mathematics and Critical Reasoning 3-5
IV. CONCENTRATION REQUIREMENTS (23 credits) 
  Early Childhood Education and Care (24)
  Food Management Production and Service (24)
  Work and Family (24)
 MINIMUM TOTAL 
122

*All courses within the Major Requirements must be earned with a minimum C (2.0) grade.

** A minimum C (2.0) grade must be earned. A minimum C (2.0) grade must be earned to fulfill the writing-intensive requirement.

 

 

Early Childhood Education and Care Concentration

For semester-by-semester course sequencing for this program, view the 2010-2011 Roadmap.

 I. CONCENTRATION REQUIREMENTS (21-24 credits)*
Type Course Title Credits
  CTTE 46192 Practicum: Occupational (see advisor) 3-6
  ECED
20163 Understanding Young Children: Typical and Atypical Pathways 3
 
30123 Language and Literacy for the Preschool Child 3
 
30134 Integrated Expressive Arts and Social Studies in Preschool 3
 
30164 Preschool Education
3
    40145 Music and Rhythms in Preprimary Education 3
  PEP 25034 Early Childhood Motor Development 3
 II. ADDITIONAL CONCENTRATION REQUIREMENTS (3 credits)
Type Course Title Credits
  General Elective 3
MINIMUM TOTAL 
24

*All courses within the Concentration Requirements must be earned with a minimum C (2.0) grade.

 


Food Management Production and Service Concentration

For semester-by-semester course sequencing for this program, view the 2010-2011 Roadmap.

 I. CONCENTRATION REQUIREMENTS (21-23 credits)*
Type Course Title Credits
  CTTE 46192
Practicum: Occupational (see advisor)
4-6
  HM
13024 Introduction to Hospitality Management 2
 
23012 Food Study 3
    33020 Legal Issues in the Hospitality Industry 3
    33028 Hospitality Purchasing 3
 
43030 Food Service Systems Management
3
 
43032 Food Product and Service Management
3
 II. ADDITIONAL CONCENTRATION REQUIREMENTS (3 credits)
Type Course Title Credits
  General Elective
3
MINIMUM TOTAL 
24

*All courses within the Concentration Requirements must be earned with a minimum C (2.0) grade.

 

 

Work and Family Concentration

For semester-by-semester course sequencing for this program, view the 2010-2011 Roadmap.

 I. CONCENTRATION REQUIREMENTS (18 credits)*
Type Course Title Credits
  FDM 10030
Fashion Fabrics
3
  HDFS
24012 Child Development 3
 
41093 Variable Topic Workshop: Human Development And Family Studies
3
  HM
23012 Food Study 3
  Choose one from the following:
6
  GERO
44030 Adult Development and Aging (3)
  HDFS 24013 Early Adolescence (3)

 
44023 Building Family Strengths (3)
 
44029 Family Policy (3)
 II. ADDITIONAL CONCENTRATION REQUIREMENTS (6 credits)
Type Course Title Credits
  General Elective (see faculty)
6
MINIMUM TOTAL 
24

*All courses within the Concentration Requirements must be earned with a minimum C (2.0) grade.