This programme equips graduate students with the necessary skills and knowledge required to enter the education and consumer science industries.
Type: undergraduate degree
Duration: 4 years full time
Compulsory Subjects
First year subjects:
- Computer literacy
- Academic literacy
- Clothing production: sewing technologies
- Design principles
- Business management
- Religious instruction
- Food supply and quantity control
- Information literacy
- Communication in organisations
- Interior merchandise
- Cultural eating patterns
- Clothing production: processes
Second year subjects:
- Ergonomics
- Interior production
- Science education
- Sociology
- Textiles: fibres, utilities and yarns
- Foods
- Interior merchandise
- Textiles: structures and finishes
- Nutrition
Third year subjects:
- Interior merchandise
- Science education
- Foods
- Nutrition
- Food and beverage management
- Interior planning
- Social and cultural aspects of clothing
- Nutrition during life cycle
- Large scale planning and preparation
Fourth year subjects:
- Social contexts in education
- Facilitating learning
- Foundation of education
- Global perspectives in education
- Learning theories
- Professional ethics and law
- Professional portfolio
- Consumer studies
Careers: consumer behavioural analyst, educator.
Source: www.up.ac.za