FACSWhat is it?

Created by Katie FosterLocust Grove High School

FACS/Nutrition & Food Science

Quick FACTS about FACS

Family and Consumer Sciences

Academic Discipline that combines aspects of social and natural science

Deals with Relationships between individuals, families and communities as well as the environment they live in.

AKA: Home Economics (1993) Human Sciences

Human Ecology

A little history of FACS

Catherine Beecher (sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe)◦The first to establish the economy of running

the home.

◦Mid 19th century North America is talking about domestic science.

A little history of FACS

Land Grant Colleges ◦Educated farmers wives in managing the farm

household

◦Taught agricultural methods and processes

◦Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Illinois, Minnesota and Michigan early leaders in offering higher education programs to women.

Ellen Swallow Richards

Foremost female industrial and environmental Chemist in the US in the 19th century

Pioneer for home economics (founded AAFCS)

First woman admitted to MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

MIT’s First Female Instructor

First woman to earn a degree in Chemistry

The Betty Lamp

Colonials use the lamp to light the home

Produced more light than the lamps of its time.

Allowed woman to work and learn after dark

Symbol of learning

AAFCS Logo

Our Symbols

Organizations

National Association

Represents FACS across practice areas & content specializations

Public Policy

This is the same except that it is strictly the state of Georgia

Contributes to AAFCS and is a very active state at the national level.

Founded in 1909 by Ellen Swallow Richards.

Founded as the American Home Economics Association

Focus: To improve the quality and standards of individual and family life.

What can you do in FACS?

Consumer JournalismFamily Financial

Planning

Fashion Merchandizing Furnishings and

InteriorsFamily and Consumer

Science Education

Dietetics

Nutrition Science

Housing Human Development

and Family Science

Consumer Foods

Consumer Economics

What Can you do in FACS?

Sensory Evaluator Event Coordinator Advertising Restaurant Manager Consumer Banking Layout Designer Media Consultant Television Feature Writer Wealth Management Advisor Designer Boutique Owner Textile Designer Production Manager Buyer

What Can you do in FACS?

Nutrition Consultant Food Scientist Sports Nutrition Biological Science Aid Business Developer Community Development Administrator Residential Home Loan Officer Marriage and Family Therapist Parent-Child Educator Pre-School teacher Curriculum Development Specialist Flavor Chemistry Brand Development Food & Travel Writer Marketing Associate Product Development Scientist