- Utica Community Schools
- CTE
- Education & Family Consumer Sciences
- Family Consumer Science
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What you will learn:
Students will learn a variety of essential life skills needed to sustain their well-being and help them manage their future careers. The program aims to provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary for careers in the fields of hospitality industries, child care services, education, and design.
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Academic Credit:
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VPAA - Visual, Performing & Applied Arts Requirement
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OLE - Online Learning Experience Requirement
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SMR - Senior Math Related
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Typical Course Progression:
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Life Skills 9
The Life Skills department recognizes the importance of promoting the growth of the total individual: physical, intellectual, emotional and social. It provides instruction that will enable students to improve the quality and stability of their lives in an ever-changing society. Life Skills, a career and technical education course, explores a variety of areas such as nutrition and foods, and parenting and child development.
Academic Credit: VPAA
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Career Connection
Career Connection focuses on improving one's self-concept, communication skills, decision-making, conflict resolution, working as a team member, managing stress, planning personal goals, career exploration, and employability skills that lead to job success.
Consumer Education
Consumer Education students learn how to buy a car, maintain a checking account, prepare a budget, shop for insurance, understand tax forms, use credit wisely, work toward financial goals, select housing, analyze legal documents, and make wise buying decisions.
Academic Credit: VPPA and SMR
Contemporary Living
PREREQUISITE: Career Connection recommended but not required Contemporary
Living provides students with skills to help them understand and improve family and peer relationships. Course units include: improving interpersonal skills, dating and love relationships, marriage preparation, coordinating career employment with family life, household finance, family life cycles, goal planning and evaluation. Students experience the "Life in the Real World" simulation project. Students learn skills needed to cope with life situations such as preparing for college life, renting one's first apartment, and time management skills.
Academic Credit: VPAA
Food and Nutrition
This course provides students with an understanding of safety and sanitation, basic cooking techniques, food presentation, meal-time etiquette, and the exploration of food-related careers. Through demonstration, lab experience, taste testing and evaluation, students will become familiar with healthy food choices, principles of nutrition, and weight control techniques.
Academic Credit: VPAA and OLE
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Listed below are potential careers at different experience/educational levels. Students and parents are encouraged to use their Xello account to find out more about careers in this pathway. The career is also linked to O*NET Online, which is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor, employment and training administration.
