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Home and Family Living major requirements for students

For Family and Consumer Sciences requirements see FACS

  1. At least 15 hours of major course work taken in residency at BYU.
  2. Complete the following courses (total of 41-42 credit hours):

Core Courses: (12 hrs required)

FAMLF 100: Strengthening Marriage & Family: Proclamation Principles & Scholarship (School of Family Life core)
HFL 100: Home and Family Living
MFHD 210: Human Development
HFL 350: Family Finances

Lower-Division Courses: Complete Five Classes (14-15 hrs Required)

HFL 102*: Introduction to Interiors HFL 224: Marriage Enhancement
HFL 110: Basic Food Preparation HFL 230: Housing the Family
HFL 150: Principles of Home and Family Living HFL 282: Textiles
HFL 180: Clothing the Family HFL 287: Intermediate Clothing Construction
HFL 185R: Beginning Clothing Construction MFHD 160*: Introduction to Family Processes
HFL 202: Design in the Home MFHD 240: Parenting and Child Guidance
HFL 210: Advanced Food Preparation
HFL 223: Marriage Preparation

Upper-Division Courses: Complete Three Classes (9 hrs Required)

HFL 319: Family in Fiction HFL 395R: Special Topic in Home Economics
HFL 328: Hist of Interior Design & Architecture 1 HFL 397: Advanced Clothing Studies
HFL 329: Hist of Interior Design & Architecture 2 HFL 399R: Academic Internship
HFL 335: Household Equipment HFL 450: Advanced Family Finance
HFL 340: Family Meal Management HFL 461: The Family and the Law
HFL 370: Families in Communities HFL 371: Work & Relationships in the Home
HFL 472: Temporal Welfare in Families HFL 380: History of Apparel
HFL 485: Tailoring HFL 381R: Textile Design
HFL 488: Seminar: Home-based Entrps HFL 387: Adv Cloth Studies: Patternmaking
HFL 489: The Family & Public Policy

Additional Electives: 6 hrs Required

Any HFL or MFHD courses not previously counted HLTH 436: Social Hygiene
NDFS 100: Essentials of Human Nutrition RMYL 301: Family Recreation
NDFS 200: Nutrient Metabolism BusM 200: Personal Finance
NDFS 201: Nutr & Prev of Chronic Disease BusM 372: Basic Entrepreneurship Skills
NDFS 250: Essentials of Food Science PAS 103: Residential Landscape Design
NDFS 251: Essentials of Food Science Lab PAS 112: Floral Design

*Hours include courses that may fulfill GE or university requirements.
*HFL 370 will become HFL 270 Fall 2005

 

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