Family and Consumer Science

 

Family and Consumer Science (FCS) education is a driving force in leadership and support to assist individuals, families and communities in making informed decisions about their well-being, relationships and recourses to achieve optimal quality of life. FCS programs enable students to acquire broad, transferable skills for employment and personal life as well as job-specific skills in careers related to early childhood development, education, social and human services, food production and management, hospitality and tourism, apparel and interior design, and entrepreneurship. PRTA currently offers two tracks within this discipline: Culinary Arts and Teacher/Training. PRTA offers the following sequence of training within the Teacher/Training Program: Teen Living, Parenting and Child Development, Early Childhood Professions and a capstone class called Educational Assistant wherein our students are placed within our Elementary programs as an unpaid internship.