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Jan 27, 2025
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
Nutrition and Food Science, Family and Consumer Sciences Secondary Education Concentration, B.S.
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Human Sciences
615-898-2091
Janet Colson, program director
Janet.Colson@mtsu.edu
The Family and Consumer Sciences Secondary Education (FCSSE) concentration of the Nutrition and Food Science program offers preparation for students to teach Family and Consumer Science (FCS) in grades 6-12. Licensure to teach FCS requires a bachelor’s degree from an institution approved for the training of teachers in FCS and its occupational areas. A minor in Secondary Education is also required. Students may select one of two occupational endorsements as a required part of the major and choose to have the second endorsement by taking six additional hours. Those who complete the program are qualified to teach in vocationally reimbursed FCS programs as well as non-reimbursed programs.
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Degree Requirements
| True Blue Core (TBC) |
41 hours |
| Major Requirements |
49 hours |
| Secondary Education Minor |
30 hours |
| Electives |
0-6 hours* |
| TOTAL |
120 hours |
*This program requires courses that can also fulfill requirements of the True Blue Core curriculum. If program requirements are also used to fulfill True Blue Core requirements, the number of elective hours may increase.
True Blue Core (41 hours)
True Blue Core (TBC) requirements (shown in curricular listings below) include courses in the Foundational Skills areas of Written Communication (WC), Information Literacy (Info Lit), Non-Written Communication (NWC), and Quantitative Literacy (Quant Lit). Knowledge Domains include Human Society and Social Relationships (HSSR), Scientific Literacy (Sci Lit), Creativity and Cultural Expression (CCE), and History and Civic Learning (HCL), which include Discovery and Explorations categories. Students must choose at least one course from each Discovery category.
The following courses required by the program meet True Blue Core requirements:
Major Requirements (49 hours)
Nutrition and Food Science Core (6 hours)
Remaining Major Requirements (43 hours)
Endorsement Area (6 hours)
Students must select the remaining 6 credit hours to complete one of the endorsement options. One of the teaching residencies must align with the endorsement option selected.
Option A: Early Childhood Care and Services (6 hours)
Option B: Food Production and Management Services (6 hours)
Family and Consumer Sciences Education (FCSE) Add-On Endorsements
Students who complete the degree as outlined above will graduate with one endorsement in one of the two occupational areas-early childhood care and services (#451) or food production and management services (#453). Current FCS teachers who already have the basic FACS endorsement (#450) may add an endorsement by completing the required 9 semester hours of additional coursework.
Endorsements and the required courses are listed below.
Option A: Early Childhood Care and Services (9 hours)
Option B: Food Production and Management Services (12 hours)
Curriculum: Nutrition and Food Science, Family and Consumer Sciences Secondary Education
Sophomore Fall
- NFS 3200 - Food Science 3 credit hours AND
- NFS 3201 - Food Science Lab 0 credit hours
- Creativity and Cultural Expression Literature 3 credit hours
- Non-Written Communication 3 credit hours
- Human Society and Social Relationships 3 credit hours
- Creativity and Cultural Expression 3 credit hours
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