Master's Degree - Option B - certified FCS teachers and professionals

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

Sheree Moser
Mobile: 402-890-3997
smoser2@unl.edu

Campus Coordinator

For course access questions, contact the teaching university’s campus coordinator. For enrollment questions, contact your home university 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

Rethinking Home Economics: Women and the History of a Profession
Edited by Sarah Stage and Virginia B. Vincenti
Edition: 1997
Publisher: Cornell University Press

Stir It Up: Home Economics in American Culture
Megan J Elias
Edition: 2010
Publisher: University pf Pennsylvania Press

The Palace Thief
Canin, E.
Edition: 2006
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks

The Emperor's Club
Universal
Edition: 2003
Publisher: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment


Course Access

Canvas at UNL

UNL Graduate Studies will email students with information (student name, email, and NU ID) and instructions for accessing UNL classes. For undergraduate students in the ECEMS program, Mel Sedlacek will email students with information and instructions for accessing UNL classes. Students will claim their UNL account by setting a password and security questions. Once students claim their ID, they will be able to access their courses at https://canvas.unl.edu/. Courses may not be visible to students until the first day of class.

Please contact the UNL campus coordinator listed below with any questions.

Lisa King for Family & Community Services, Family & Consumer Sciences Education, Family Financial Planning, Youth Development, and Community Development
Mel Sedlacek for Early Care & Education
Kelly Durkin for Dietetics
Melisia Bieber for Merchandising
Melissa Sailors for Ag Systems Management & Technology, Animal Science, Food Safety & Defense, Grassland Management, Horticulture, and Quantitative Genetics & Genomics

 


Exam Proctor

This course does not require an exam proctor.

Synchronous Components

This course does not include synchronous components.


Comments

Palace Thief, a short story by Ethan Canin and/or the Emperors Club, the film based on the book. The story is published in a book by the same name (New York: Picador, 1994). Both the book and the film (Universal pictures, 2002) are available at Amazon.com and other bookstores. It may also be available in some Libraries, including the University of Nebraska-Lincoln library.

University Members
Members of the Great Plains IDEA are universities accredited by a regional accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Member universities recruit, admit and graduate students, teach in an academic program and contribute to the leadership and maintenance of the alliance. Membership in the alliance is a selective process that engages institutional leadership at all levels.
– – Sarah Farley, Comunity Development Master's Graduate,
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