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Course Overview

The course will take you way beyond the kitchen to explore vital contemporary issues in home economics such as the correlation between nutrition, wellbeing, and cognitive/emotional development. You’ll learn how to help build resilient and sustainable communities through a better understanding of the basics of nutrition and health equality. As a graduate of this unique course, you will have gained the practical skills and research-driven knowledge you need to help young people face the challenges of 21st-century citizenship.

Are you passionate about helping young people build a better future? This course will prepare you as a teacher to inspire students to care about their own wellbeing and that of others. This is about more than reinventing how young people learn to cook. Through practical classroom experience and research driven academic learning you will learn how to help young people become citizens of a planet in which food security is under threat, resources are finite and health challenges persist.

The curriculum aims to develop knowledgeable consumers with an awareness of global citizenship and its responsibilities. The world needs people who are able to make sound judgements, appreciating the impact that developments in technology, materials, and resources have on their choices and wellbeing.

You will be encouraged to interrogate prevailing assumptions, practices and policy. You will explore interconnected topics including food poverty, body image, eating disorders, and social media, and debate issues such as the impact of foodbank use on people and their communities and how we can understand the obesity-poverty paradox.

The course will collaborate with local organisations and charities so you can gain hands-on experience and real-world knowledge. School counselors, school nurses, and other health specialists will run workshops on topics including cyberbullying, child exploitation, neglect,
welfare and rights.

Entry Requirement 

Successful applicants must, as a minimum, meet the requirements as set by the Memorandum on Entry Requirements to Courses of Initial
Teacher Education in Scotland produced by the General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS), which specifies general entrance requirements for all applicants and subject-specific requirements for Secondary applicants. Shortlisted applicants will be invited for an interview.

Minimum entry requirements:

  • A degree validated by a higher education institution in the United Kingdom (UK) or a degree of an equivalent standard from an institution outside the UK
  • Applicants must have a degree with 80 SCQF credit points including 40 SCQF credit points at SCQF Level 8 (or above) from at least two of:
    • Consumer studies
    • Food studies
    • Food technology
    • Textile technology
    • Nutrition

The other 40 credits can come from the above or any of the other relevant areas outlined below:

  • Family Studies: parenting, childhood studies, family lifestyles, socioeconomic influences or environmental issues
  • Food Science: food chemistry, the composition of foods, processing and manufacturing of foodstuffs, functional properties of foods, biotechnology or microbiology.
  • Health: health promotion, health education, determinants of health, lifestyles and health, environmental issues, or health and food policies.
  • Hospitality: practical food preparation skills, food preparation techniques or food and beverage management.
  • Textile Studies: textile construction, properties, finishes, contemporary developments, production systems, textile futures, or design technologies.
    PLUS
  • A National Qualification in English at SCQF Level 6, for example:
    • Higher English Grade C or
    • A-Level English, Grade D or
    • GCSE English Language AND English Literature, at 4/C IN BOTH or
    • Irish Leaving Certificate Higher English at Grade 4/C2

NB: Higher ESOL is acceptable for entry to PGDE (Home Economics) only. It is not accepted for entry to BA (Hons) Education Studies (Primary).
AND

  • A National Qualification in Mathematics at SCQF Level 5, for example:
    • Standard Grade/Int 2/National 5 Mathematics Grade C or
    • GCSE Mathematics at 4/C or
    • Irish Leaving Certificate Mathematics Ordinary Grade 3/B3

NB: National 5 Lifeskills/Applications Mathematics is accepted in place of National 5 Mathematics.

International: Where your degree has not been studied in English, you will be required to provide evidence of English language competence at no less than IELTS 6.5 with no individual component score less than 6.0.

Accreditation of prior learning: You may be granted exemption from studying a module or modules up to a maximum of 60 credit points, provided you can demonstrate successful achievement of all the learning outcomes.

Fees

Full-Time Fees

Scotland/UK/ROI Student Fee:

Home/EU: £1820 RUK: £9250

International Student Fee: £13500


This information was accurate on : 16/04/2021
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