• project a positive attitude and a sense of personal integrity and self-confidence.
• practice effective communication skills, visual poise, and proper grooming.
• respect the need to deliver worthy service for value received in an employer-employee relationship.
• perform basic manipulative skills in the areas of hairstyling, hair shaping, haircoloring, texture services, scalp and hair conditioning, skin and makeup, manicures, pedicures, and nail extensions.
• perform the basic analytical skills to determine proper makeup, hairstyle and color application for client's overall image.
• apply learned theory technical information, and related matter to assure sound judgments, decisions, and procedures.

To ensure continued career success, the graduate will continue to learn new and current information related to skills, trends, and methods for career development in cosmetology and related fields.

References: A comprehensive library of reference, periodicals, books, texts, audio/video tapes are available to support the course of study and supplement student training. Students should avail themselves of the opportunity to use these extensive materials.

Grading Procedures: Students are assigned theory study and a minimum number of practical experiences required for course completion. Theory is evaluated after each unit of study. Practical assignments are evaluated as completed and counted toward course completion only when rated as satisfactory or better. Practical skills are evaluted according to text procedures, performance standards established by the state licensing agency, and the Practical Cosmetology Skills Competency Evaluation Criteria. Students must maintain a theory grade of 75% and pass a final written and practical exam prior to graduation. Students must make up failed or missed tests and incomplete assignments. Numerical grades are considered according to the following scale:

Written:  93 - 100 Excellent

              85 - 92 Very Good

              75 - 84 Satisfactory

              70 - 74 Needs Improvement

Practical: 4    Excellent

                3    Very Good

                2    Satisfactory

                0-1 Unsatisfactory