BS Home Economics
BS Home Economics
The BSHE is a four-year degree program which provides a broad foundation in general home economics areas and emphasizes the integration of knowledge to focus on four areas: home economics education and training, consumer studies, household resource management, and entrepreneurship and livelihood development.
It primarily prepares students for a career in education as teachers or trainers from the basic to the tertiary level in different institutional settings. It also provides students with the necessary skills to pursue entrepreneurial ventures with strengths in product development, consumer research, and resource and financial management. It aims to develop graduates who possess fundamental knowledge, values, and skills in the different areas of home economics with the mission of empowering Filipino families and consumers for them to improve their well-being.
Students of BSHE engage in various, varied, worthwhile, and fun class experiences, including consumer testing, entrepreneurship practicum, teaching practicum, food service practicum, community training, thesis, and research activities.
Program Learning Objectives
Show passion and pride for the discipline from an understanding of the philosophy, history, and principles of home economics;
Demonstrate the teaching and training competencies in formal and non-formal settings;
Integrate broad, meaningful, and coherent knowledge in the different areas of home economics in the home, entrepreneurial, educational, and research settings;
Demonstrate higher level literacy, communication, numeracy, critical and creative thinking, research and learning skills needed for higher learning;
Exhibit values and behaviors reflecting the seven educative goals of CHE especially in the areas of promoting family and child welfare, consumer rights and responsibilities, efficient management of resources, education and training, and entrepreneurial and livelihood development; and
Demonstrate competencies of assessing students according to national standardsÂ