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2024 Summer Course Info
Evaluation and Assessment in FCS Education ProgramsHistory and Philosophy of FCS EducationReading in the Content AreaResearch Experience in Family and Consumer SciencesTeaching FCS with TechnologyEducation in a Pluralistic Society (Multicultural Education/Human Relations)Profession in Focus
2024 Fall Course Info
History and Philosophy of FCS EducationAdministration of FCS Education ProgramsExceptional Learners in the Secondary School Classroom (Special Education)Education in a Pluralistic Society (Multicultural Education/Human Relations)Curriculum Development in FCS
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Course Information
History and Philosophy of FCS Education
Course Description
Students learn historical, philosophical, and legislative bases of family and consumer sciences education. Course content includes the role of family and consumer sciences in secondary schools and other educational settings.
Contacts
Instructor

Kyle Roberson
Office: 806-742-3031
kyle.roberson@ttu.edu

Campus Coordinator

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Disability Support Services

To request accommodations for this course, contact the disability support office at your home university. You must register each semester and for each course. Read more about the Great Plains IDEA process for requesting accommodations.

Textbooks

Family and Consumer Sciences Compendium Series, Volumes I and II.
These two texts can be purchased in an electronic or printed format at the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences (AAFCS), (Members of AAFCS—you should join—receive a member discount).
Publisher: https://www.aafcs.org/resources/publications-products/compendium-series

HEARTH, Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition, and History
Cornell
Publisher: http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/

Rethinking Home Economics: Women and the History of a Profession
Stage, S. & Vincenti, V. B.
Edition: 1997
ISBN: ISBN: 97808014817
Publisher: Cornell University Press

Publication manual of the American Psychological Association
American Psychological Association
Edition: 7th ed.
Publisher: Washington, DC: American Psychological Association

Secret History of Home Economics
Danielle Dreilinger
ISBN: 978-1324021865
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Course Access
 
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Exam Proctor

This course does not require an exam proctor.

Synchronous Components

This course does not include synchronous components.

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Wearbon_Kristen_Headshot_for_Website1.pngThe online Family and Community Services Program is teaching me to observe, evaluate, and assist families using a strengths-based approach. In my previous role as alumni advisor, one of my responsibilities was speaking with parents from various backgrounds to prepare them for their scholar's graduation and matriculation. Using what I learned in Resilience in Families and Family Resource Management I was able to highlight families' assets and internal resources to help them help their scholar succeed, in addition to providing them with new information and external resources. All of my courses have contributed in some way to how I now approach my work and interact with those close to me. I am a better employee, sister, daughter, friend, and mentor because of the online Family and Community Services program!

– – Kristen Wearbon, Family and Community Services Student,
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