Students in the Teacher Licensure option may choose to add a second teaching area specialization such as middle school, health education, or coaching. The department offers a minor in educational services in family and consumer sciences. The department cooperates in the journalism and mass communications concentration in family and consumer studies. See department for details. The department offers work for the degrees master of science, master of education, and doctor of philosophy, each with the major, family and consumer sciences education.
Minors are available.
Programs for advanced degrees with a major in family and consumer sciences education are tailored to fit the educational background, experience, and professional goals of the student. Areas of study provided by the department include program planning, curriculum, evaluation, research methods, supervision and administration, international education and development, and teacher education. Opportunities are available for strengthening one's background in subject matter in other departments in the College of Family and Consumer Sciences. Students who complete a graduate program are professional family and consumer sciences educators and teacher educators who foster program planning, implementation, and evaluation at state, national, and international levels. They are producers and disseminators of research and scholarship in family and consumer sciences education and are leaders in programs and services for clientele in diverse settings.