~EGULAR SESSION - University of Oregon

BOME ECONOMICS 183
and transfer to Oregon State University at the beginning of the junior year, with
out loss of credit and with fundamental requirements for upper-division standing
fully met.
The foods and clothing laboratories of the Department of Borne Economics
are designed and equipped in accordance with the best modern standards for instruction
in these fields.
Subject Preparation for High-School Teaching. For certification as a
teacher of home economics in Oregon high schools, the student's program must
include the subject-preparation requirements of the Oregon State Department of
Education. The requirements are: for a basic certificate, granted after four years
of college work, a basic norm-36 term hours in home economics, including work
in child development, clothing, family relationships, foods and nutrition, housing
and home furnishings, and home management; for a standard norm, granted after
five years of college work, a standard nOrlin-54 term hours in home economics,
including the basic-norm requirement.
The University offers the work required for the basic norm; it does not,
however, offer the additional work required for the standard norm.
The requirements stated above will be mandatory after July 1, 1965. The
minimum subject requirements for students who qualify for certification before
this date are published in the 1962-63 University Catalog, page 263.
LOWER-DIVISION COURSES
BEc 121, 122, 123. Clothing Construction. 2 hours each term.
Principles of clothing construction. BEc 121 : basic skills in use of patterns,
fabrics, and equipment. BEc 122: selection, management, and construction,
using silk and manmade fibers. BEc 123: planning and construction of a lined
wool suit or coat. It is recommended that the sequence be preceded by BEc
124, 125, 126 or taken concurrently.
BEc 124, 125, 126. Clothing Selection. 1 hour any term.
Aesthetic and economic factors in the selection of clothing. BEc 124 : aesthetic
principles of line, color and texture. BEc 125: expression of individuality
through clothing. BEc 126: problems of consumer buying of clothing;
clothing expenditures of college students and the family.
BEc 125. Textiles. 2 hours any term.
Designed to develop a basic consumer understanding of the characteristics of
fibers and fabrics; selection, purchase, and care of fabrics and household
linens. Suggested parallel for BEc 111.
BEc 226,227,228. Foods. 3 hours each term..
Scientific approach to food preparation; nutritional, managerial, and aesthetic
aspects of meal planning. 2 recitations; 2 two-hour laboratory periods.
BEc 222. Family Relationships. 2 hours any term.
Values and goals of modern family life; family roles of men and women;
choice of a marriage partner; adjustment to family life.
BEc 225. Nutrition. 2 hours any term.
Scientific study of foods; choice of foods for the maintenance of health;
common nutritional problems; evaluation of nutritional information provided
in the mass media.
BEc 250. Camp Cookery. 1 hour any term.
Fundamental principles of cookery applied to simple meals in home and camp.
1 three-hour laboratory period. Open to men only.
UPPER-DIVISION COURSES
BEc 325. Child Care. 3 hours any term.
Current concepts of growth and development; prenatal care; behavior and