Career and Technical Education - Family and Consumer Sciences Education

Career and Technical Education (CTE) is an area of public education that focuses on providing students with opportunities in high skill, high demand and high wage areas. Appalachian State University prepares individuals to teach students about these areas at the middle and high school level, at the postsecondary level, in industry and through cooperative extension agencies. Appalachian is the only institution in the state that prepares CTE teachers, and is widely recognized as providing top-quality teachers for the public schools.

Just as young people need to be taught how to read, write or calculate, they also need education in business, marketing and financial literacy, family and consumer sciences literacy and technological literacy.

We offer five certification tracks:

• Business, Finance and Information Technology Education
• Business, Marketing and Entrepreneurship Education
• Family and Consumer Sciences
• Technology, Engineering and Design Education
• Trade and Industrial Education

In Career and Technical Education (CTE) - Family and Consumer Sciences Education, students address all areas of family and consumer sciences including family living and parenting, child development, apparel and textiles, housing and interior design, foods and nutrition, and consumer education. Students wishing to gain additional competence in a particular area can minor in child development, nutrition or apparel. Since many of our students become teachers, students learn to incorporate innovative instructional strategies, manage labs and implement career and technical student organizations.

Transfer students or students who have completed Community College courses related to a specific skill area should contact the program director to determine if these courses can count toward a program of study at Appalachian.

• Middle and high school teachers
• Community college instructors
• Adult educators in community agencies
• Private school teacher
• Educator in business or industry
• Career center instructors

• Complete an application (apply using the Common Application)
• Provide your official high school transcript(s)
• Provide your official or unofficial college transcript(s) for any completed college coursework*
• Submit $65 application fee (or approved fee waiver)
• Submit official or self-reported SAT (school code: 5010) or ACT (school code: 3062) scores (or apply with a test waiver)
• Complete your FAFSA (application opens Oct. 1; school code: 002906)