Senior Seminar A required 9-15 credit internship enables the student to apply theoretical knowledge gained in courses in a particular area. This option focuses on economic factors that affect individual and family consumption and resource allocation patterns. It provides students with a strong theoretical foundation in economics and social and behavioral sciences. An additional 15 credits selected in Economics, Sociology, Political Science, Business and Finance, Marketing, and Resource Economics. This option examines social and psychological factors that impinge on family life.
Emphasis is placed on linkages among the individual, family, and social environments.
An additional 21 credits selected in Human Development, Psychology, Sociology, Public Health, Education, and others in consultation with an adviser. Graduates can be certified to teach home economics from nursery school through 12th grade in Massachusetts, and meet teacher certification requirements in many other states. Contact the department for further information. Students who intend to become educators in business, government, and community agencies are subject to the requirements of the Non-Formal emphasis in the Education option. Both emphases include courses on learners across the life cycle and in families, nutrition, consumer economics, and contemporary critical social theory.