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FCOS 407:Management of Household Tools & Appliances.

Principles and factors that influence the selection of equipment and tools for the home and dynamisms of technology in the home.  Practical exposure to different types of equipment, tools and appliances used in the home emphasizing those likely to...

FCOS 406:Extension Practical

A practical course which involves a field trip. Students apply the principles and techniques studied in FCOS 405. Members in the selected communities are introduced to Child Nutrition Education, Family Planning, Parenting Education, Sex Education and Teenage...

FCOS 405:Extension Theory

Principles of learning and teaching, setting objectives and working with adults. Programme planning and development based on identified needs at home or family level. Communication techniques, motivation and use of demonstrations, group dynamics, mass-media...

FCOS 404:Current Issues in Foods and Nutrition

Food and nutritional problems in Ghana; nutrition education as a major solution to nutritional problems (emphasis on principles of nutrition education); government and non-governmental programmes aimed at solving food and nutritional problems in Ghana. The...

FCOS 403:Apparel Design and Production

The course focuses on concepts and practices for the production of clothing items; design analysis, dart manipulation and adaptation, development of basic blocks, flat pattern making, sizing and grading of patterns, application of garment construction process...

FCOS 402:Textiles & Apparel Policies

The course will cover policies related the production, local and international fibre, fabric and apparel standards, exports and import of textiles fibres, fabrics, garment and related articles. The topics will include policies on ethics of labor and...

FCOS 401:Life Cycle Nutrition and Meal Management

Nutritional requirements and food needs of individuals at varying physiological stages in the life cycle (infancy throughout the ageing years); Meal management goals and techniques of planning balanced diets to meet the food and nutritional needs of different...

FCOS 400:Research Project

Creative review of literature and investigation on a special problem in any of the field of Consumer Sciences, condition of oral examination on the problem studied during scheduled seminar periods and the submission of a typed written report a week before the...

FCOS 326:Home Furnishings

The evolution of the furniture industry, from its conception to the present; selection, use and maintenance of materials for furniture, floor, ceiling, window, table and bed coverings; floral arrangement; functions of items used for home furnishings;...

FCOS 324:Food Habits

Foundations of human food habits or dietary pattern; the influences of the various factors on food choices and eating patterns; and reasons underlying food likes and dislikes; Cross cultural meal patterns and the influence of food habits on nutritional...

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