Mar 13, 2025  
2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]


Family and Consumer Sciences Teacher Licensure Program (B.S.)

Location(s): Manhattan Campus



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This degree program is for students who plan to teach family and consumer sciences at the middle, junior high, senior high, or postsecondary levels. Family and consumer sciences educators directly address the needs of individuals and families related to nurturing relationships, parenting education, healthy lifestyles, and resource management. Graduates of the program primary work in middle and secondary schools, and cooperative extension.

Upon successful completion of all family and consumer sciences licensure requirements, the Principles of Learning and Teaching test, and the PRAXIS II content assessment test for family and consumer sciences, graduates are eligible to apply for licensure to teach family and consumer sciences in Kansas schools. See the College of Education  section of this catalog for more information on eligibility requirements, admission to teacher education and admission to the professional semester. 

Bachelor’s degree requirements

General requirements (34-35 credit hours)


Communications (8 credit hours)


(Grades of C or higher required.)

Social sciences (6 credit hours)


Humanities (3-4 credit hours)


  • History Credits: 3

Quantitative studies (6 credit hours)


(Grades of C or higher required.) 

Integrative Health and Human Sciences core courses (3 credit hours)


Professional studies (85 credit hours)


Grades of “C” or higher required.

Professional education courses (43 credit hours)


Notes


*These are the only professional education courses which can be taken prior to admission to teacher education.

**These courses are blocked in three sequential semesters; courses in each block are to be taken concurrently and are prerequisites to the subsequent designated block of courses.

Total credit hours required for graduation (120)


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