Family and Consumer Sciences

Individual Development

Prerequisites: None
Focus on developing personal potential by enhancing positive views of self and others, managing stressful situations, formulating a career plan, forming healthy relationships, and exploring parenting.

Life Planning

Prerequisites: None
Focus on developing personal potential by enhancing positive views of self and others, managing stressful situations, formulating a career plan, forming healthy relationships, and exploring parenting.

Family Relations

Prerequisites: None
Focus on developing personal potential by enhancing positive views of self and others, managing stressful situations, formulating a career plan, forming healthy relationships, and exploring parenting.

Resource Management

Prerequisites: None
Focus on managing resources to achieve individual goals; making informed choices; and maintaining a supportive living environment.

Basic Living

Prerequisites: None
An experiential course offering information on wellness, basic nutrition, and necessary life skills.

Nutrition and Wellness

Prerequisites: None
Students enrolled in Nutrition and Wellness focus on making choices that promote wellness and good health; analyzing relationships between psychological and social needs and food choices; choosing foods that promote wellness; obtaining and storing food for self and family; preparing and serving nutritious meals and snacks; selecting and using equipment for food preparation; and identifying strategies to promote optimal nutrition and wellness of society. Teachers highlight the basic skills of math, science, and communication when appropriate in the content.

Parenting

Prerequisites: None
Students enrolled in Parenting focus on assessing the impact on the parenting role in society; taking responsibility for individual growth within the parenting role; preparing for a healthy emotional and physical beginning for parent and child; meeting development needs of children and adolescents; building positive parent-child relationships; using socially responsible behavior; obtaining parenting information, support, and assistance; and planning ways that families and society can share in nurturing children and adolescents. Teachers highlight the basic skills of math, science, and communication when appropriate in the content.