Course Descriptions

Nutrition and Food Science
(Food Science and Nutrition) [.5]
Prerequisite: None
This interactive course encourages the students to utilize current nutrition information in meeting personal and family needs. It also provides guidance for planning and preparing meals and snacks, buying food, observing safety and sanitation standards, selecting and using equipment, using recipes, retaining nutritive value of food during preparation and service, understanding food processing and preservation, and relating food and nutrition to career and job opportunities. A career connection experience completed outside the classroom is required of all students.

Preparation for Parenting
(Parenting and Child Development) [.5]
Prerequisite: None
This course is directed toward concerns of the family and the resolutions of those concerns. The students may apply this study of families to his/her present and future family life. The content emphasizes special needs of the family and/or situations such as single parenting, step parenting, children in crises, and abusive parenting behaviors. The student will acquire background knowledge regarding the responsibilities involved in parenting and the knowledge for effective parenting. The development of the child is included and career choices and their impact on the family are addressed. A career connection experience is required of all students to be completed outside the classroom.

(PAL) Peer Assistance and Leadership [1]
Prerequisite: None
This course provides selected students an opportunity to work in a helping role with students on their own campus and/or with students from feeder middle schools and elementary schools, in order to facilitate a more positive school experience and more informed and responsible decision-making. PAL students will receive training in areas such as communication and listening skills, tutoring, group dynamics and other means of helping younger students deal with issue of concern to them. Students can only earn one credit in four years.

Apparel [.5]
Prerequisite: None
This course emphasizes the role of clothing for individuals and society, the fashion industry, personal appearance, planning and budgeting clothing for the individual and family, buying clothing, using sewing equipment, garment construction, clothing care and storage, clothing repair and renovation, clothing alteration, and relating clothing and textiles to career and job opportunities. A career connection experience completed outside the classroom is required of all students.