Department of Family and Consumer Sciences

The Department of Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS) is one of the oldest programs at North Carolina A&T. It is the only comprehensive family and consumer sciences unit on the campus of a land-grant university in North Carolina and is one of three programs in the state that is accredited by the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences.

The department offers a variety of exciting programs, including fashion merchandising and design, human nutrition (nutrition or pre-medicine equivalents), food sciences, child development and family relations, birth-to-kindergarten education and family studies, and consumer sciences. The Department of FCS offers Bachelor of Science, Master of Science and Master of Arts in Teaching degrees. We also have certificate programs in   family financial planning   and family and consumer sciences, as well as minors in either child development and family studies or family financial planning.

The department participates in the 1890s FCS Distance Instructional Alliance, a web-based consortium of Family and Consumer Science units at other 1890 Land Grant Colleges and Universities. For more information about the 1890 FCS DIA, click   here . 

Career opportunities that await our graduates include: technical design, retail buying, store management and merchandising, visual merchandising, food-regulation compliance and technology, food chemistry, nutrition, family planning, Cooperative Extension, family and consumer sciences education, financial planning, parent education, preschool teaching and administration.

FCS offers degrees in four program areas:

• Child Development Early Education and Family Studies
• Family and Consumer Sciences
• Fashion Merchandising and Design
• Food and Nutritional Sciences

The Center of Excellence in Post-Harvest Technologies is a part of the Food and Nutritional Sciences program area; faculty in the center are members of the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences. Located on the N.C. Research Campus in Kannapolis, N.C., this research and development facility studies nutrition and human health, including ways that food can be used as medicine through metabolically tailored, or "precision," nutrition.

The center's director is Leonard Williams, Ph.D.
The North Carolina Research Campus
UNC Nutrition Research Building
500 Laureate Way
Kannapolis, NC 28081

Please contact us to arrange a tour of our facilities, or to ask us about which degree in family and consumer sciences is the best fit for your career goals.

The Department of Family and Consumer Sciences is accredited by the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences.