
Family & Consumer Science
Iowa Falls, USA
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English
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EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2024
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On-Campus
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Introduction
Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS) has been listed as #1 on CNN.com’s list of “Ten Unusual Majors That Can Get You Jobs.” FCS professionals are educators, administrators and managers, human service and business professionals, researchers, community volunteers, and consultants. They provide research-based knowledge about the topics of everyday life, including human development, personal and family finance, housing and interior design, food science, nutrition and wellness, textiles and apparel, and consumer issues. Their activities center around planning and delivering a variety of educational programs for many types of settings to improve the quality of life for individuals and families. People in this job field motivate others to use new technologies, facilitate learning, supervise students, administer programs and work cooperatively in groups. In recent years, many state and federal agencies have been created to assist families with such matters as child care, nutrition, family values, health services, and gerontology, which has opened up the job market for people in this field.
CAREER INFO
According to the American Association of Family & Consumer Sciences, FCS professionals work in apparel and textile design/merchandising, dietetics, education, food and nutrition sciences, human development and family science, hospitality, interior design, nutrition and fitness, communications, and consumer economics and financial planning.
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