COURSE: BCONS SC: EDUCATION (CONSUMER SCIENCE)

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