FACS What is it? Created by Katie Foster Locust Grove High School FACS/Nutrition & Food Science.
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Transcript of FACS What is it? Created by Katie Foster Locust Grove High School FACS/Nutrition & Food Science.
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