Classes
Adult Roles and Responsibilities
A survery course that includes the development of positive family interaction skills, awareness of communty, responsibilities, identifying emplyability skills, making good consumer choices realting to everyday living. Activites may include exploring and/or re-evaaluating career possibilities for consumer products, participating in a community sevice project, preparing foods, dressing for success, researching various types of housing and more.
Interpersonal Relationships
Build the person that you can be. Learn skills to participate in positive, caring and respectful relationships. Create better self-esteem, communication skills and appropriate behavior in order to improve your quality of life. The class will address conflict resolution, stress management, teamwork, leadership skills and how to avoid violence and abuse.
Textile & Fashion Technologies
Students will evaluate thir fashion selections, individual style, and current wardrobes. Projects may include construction of simple garments such as shirts, pants, shorts, skirts, and craft projects. Basic sewing skills are emphasized and individual introduced to computerized sewing equipments. Students are required to provide basic sewing supplies, babric, notions and patterns.
Textiles & Fashion Technologies 2
Students will expand their skills in construction of advanced level garments. Specialty fabrics may be used. Design examples may include lined garments, formal wear, home decorating projects and wearble artwork. Pattern selection will depend on student's expertise. Use of sergers, computerized sewing machines and embroidery machings will be emphasized. Students are required to provide basic sewing supplies, fabric, notions and patterns.
Apparel & Textile Occupations 1 & 2
Course study includes project design and pattern making. Students will learn commercial sewing techniques and custom tailoring. They will also practice repairs, alternations, and marketing strategies. Commercial sewing equipment will be used.
Nutrition, Wellness & Foods
Student will use current technology and nutritional guidelines to plan adn prepare foods that have appetite appeal, satisfy nutrient requirements and relate the function of each nutrient to optimum health and wellness. This class will also address safety, sanitation, recycling, and the impact of science on foods.
Advanced Nutrition, Wellness & Foods
Advanced Nutrition & foods continues the topics introduced in the beginning level class of Nutrition, Wellness & Foods. Students will be introduced to specioalized food preparation equipment. Topics included will include acquiring, organizing and evaluating information about foods and nutrition. Food topics include regional, foreign, and ethnic cooking and meeting the dietary needs of individuals at all life stages. Careers in the food industry will be explored. Labratory experiences in food preparation will be part of this course. Advance meal presentation culminates this course.
Human Development & Family Wellness
This course is recommended for any student as an elective and as a foundation for students with a career interest in human services, wellness/fitness, or the health care professions. Topics will include human development and wellness theories, prevention and management of illnesses and disease and family crisis such as abuse, death , and divorce. Exploration of human and family services careers will be included.
Child Development & Parenting 1
Students will understand how to prepare for roles as parents, care givers, family and community members. Topics included are: responsibilities and challenges of parent hood; human sexuality; adolescent pregnacy; prenatal development; preparation for birth; the birth process; the influences of heredity and environment and meeting the various needs of children.
Child Development & Parenting 2
Students will analyze parenting and nuturing strategies that maximize growth an development of children. Observation and instruction of children are included in this course. Topics included are caring for children with special needs, parental resources and career awareness.
Housing & Interiors
Students will develop an understanding of housing options and styles for various families throughout the life cycle. This project-based class will include such topics as types of housing, housing costs, elements and priciples of design, trends in housing, interiors, furniture and appliances, and housing related careers. Projects or activities could include working with the Building Trades program and CAD (Computer Aided Design.)
Early Childhood Education
This course provides students the opportuity to obtain parenting skills in a day care setting as well as preparation for a variety of employment positions related to child care centers of nursery schools, assisting with activites on playgrounds, in recreation centers and caring for children in groups. Students will participate in a one-hour related child care class and work two hours in the day care setting. Located at Riley and Washingtoon High Schools. Open to all SBCSC students.
FACS Issues and Applications
This is an advanced course done on an individual basis. The student will create a vision statement, establish goals, design and complete an action plan, look at their accomplishments and evaluate the results. The topic will be chosen by the student in an area of interest to them. The topic should go beyond what was included in previous course material. The teacher will guide and advise the sutdent along the way. Doing research, working between FACS and another subjects area and working with community resources and exciting possibilities. Student will submit a required portfolio as part of this class.
Prostart Food & Hospitality Program 1&2
Students will learn commercial food service operations. Career areas of study will include dietetics, dining room service, food service management, quality food preparation and catering. Training will include menu planning, cost control, sanitation and safety, as well as food preparation techniques. This course if offered only at Adam High School.
Prostart Food & Hospitality Program 3&4
This course will provide students with performance-based skills at a higher level of training than regular food industry workers. It incudes three modules: school-based learning-interrated culinary/business curriculum; work-based learning-student appreticeships, employment agreements, trained worksite mentors, student workplace competency checklist, field trips, and job shadowing; and, connection activities-worksite recruitment, mentor training, and National Restaurant Association certification. This course is offered only at Adams High School.
COFACS:Family & Consumer Sciences 1& 2 Related Training
An on-the-job class for students interested in family & consumer sciences related careers. Job areas include child care, clothing, alterations, food service, personal service, interior decorating, etc. Class study includes self assessment, career development and lifelong learning skills. This is a full year program. COFACS students are selected on the basis of their career objectives. This class is for college or non-college bound.
COFACS:Family & Consumer Sciences 1& 2 Job Training
This course provides on-the-job training in an occupation related to family and consumer sciences. Students will contract to work with an approved training station for the full school 30 hours per week. They will be paid entry level wages. Students must pass the related training class and job training in order to receive job training credits.