Family and Consumer Sciences Education and Studies (FCEdS)

There are seven content areas and three options within the Family and Consumer Sciences Education and Studies major that give specific focus to the broad range of curriculum within the academic program.

Options

Teacher licensure

If you’re ready to teach middle and high school students the fundamentals of food and nutrition, family dynamics, financial management, fashion, and other life skills, consider the teacher licensure option. This is an in-demand job field with high placement rates in schools around Iowa and the nation.

Communications

If you seek to write or communicate about issues related to family and consumer sciences, then the communications options may be the right fit for you. Our graduates have landed jobs writing for culinary magazines, directing consumer affairs, promoting food associations, and managing communications for food-related businesses.

Professional studies

Take your extensive knowledge of family and consumer sciences and put it to work in the community. Graduates within the professional studies option work with state and county extension offices, non-profit organizations, youth and community programs, and adult education. The wide range of skills you’ll learn as a family and consumer sciences education and studies major will equip you to help populations of all ages and backgrounds conquer life’s challenges.

Content areas

• Consumer resource management
• Family studies
• Food and nutrition
• Housing
• Human development
• Parenthood education
• Textiles and clothing

Family and Consumer Sciences curriculum requirements 2012-13 (doc)

Family and Consumer Sciences curriculum requirements 2011-12 (doc)

Family and Consumer Sciences curriculum requirements 2009-11 (doc)

Family and Consumer Sciences Licensure 4-year plan 2012-13 (doc)

Family and Consumer Sciences Communications 4-year plan 2012-13 (doc)

Family and Consumer Sciences Professional Studies 4-year plan 2012-13 (doc)

Family and Consumer Sciences 4-year plan 2011-12 (PDF)

Family and Consumer Sciences 4-year plan 2009-11 (PDF)

Current course catalog

Course descriptions

For current and recent class syllabus examples go to the Class Websites page for the Human Development and Family Studies department.

The Human Development and Family Studies scholarship page includes an online application form and list of scholarships. The online form is available from November through February each year.

Family and Consumer Sciences Education and Studies Scholarships

Transfer student information

FCEDS general education requirements (PDF)

HDFS Transfer Student Orientation (HDFS111)

View Family and Consumer Sciences Education and Studies student internship experiences at Career Connections.

Refer to the Family and Consumer Sciences Educaation and Studies careers and internships page.

School of Education licensure information

Contact: Lisa Stange, lgstange@iastate.edu.

Send all transcripts of your prior university work to Loa Christensen, 34A MacKay Hall, Iowa State Univeristy, Ames, Iowa, 50011.

Incoming Family and Consumer Sciences Education and Studies students can participate in the following learning communities:

Human Development and Family Studies Learning Community

HDFS Transfer Student Orientation (HDFS111)

Adult Non-traditional Students (ANTS)

Human Development and Family Studies Club

Kappa Omicron Nu

Phi Upsilon Omicron http://sodb.stuorg.iastate.edu/view.php?id=377

Family and Consumer Sciences Education and Studies Club

Gerontology Club

The following fit well with Family and Consumer Science Education and Studies as double majors or minors:

Apparel, Merchandising, and Design

Child, Adult, and Family Services

Coaching (minor)

Culinary Science

Dance (minor)

Diet and Exercise

Dietetics

Digital Learning minor

Early Childhood Education

Entrepreneurial Studies minor

Event Management

Family Finance, Housing, and Policy

Food Science

Hospitality Management

Nutritional Science

• Family and Consumer Sciences Education and Studies has its own resource library, the Bartow Resource Library, located in 301 MacKay Hall, that includes textbooks, curriculum materials and professional journals for student and faculty use.
• Students have access to large computer labs in the College of Human Sciences in MacKay Hall and one in LeBaron Hall.

Faculty and staff

The M.S and Ph.D. campus-based programs in Family and Consumer Sciences Education and Studies on campus are closed.

For graduate programs associated with Family and Consumer Sciences Education and Studies, prospective students can consider the following:

• Master of Human Development and Family Studies
  
• Master of Family and Consumer Science 
• Online degree. We offer access to GPIDEA, which allows a student the opportunity to earn a masters degree online.

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