This course is a study of the principles and fundamentals in planning, preparing, and serving adequate and nutritious meals. The student will take economics as well as aesthetic factors into consideration in planning meals. Laboratory experiences are included. The student will study this normal growth and development of the child from conception through teenage years.
Emphasis is placed on the child as a member of a family group.
Principles of child guidance based on the physical, intellectual, emotional, and social needs of children are examined. The course experience includes field trips and observations of young children. To be offered Fall 1999. In a time when the basic social institutions of marriage and family are being questioned as having lost some of their value and importance in our society, young people still remain the ideal of a life-long marriage. This course examines the social forces affecting this basic institution and provides information and points of view helpful in making considered personal decisions about them.