Program Syllabus and Recommendations
Curriculum & Program Agreements:
- Project a positive attitude and a sense of personal integrity and self-confidence.
- Practice effective communication skills and visual poise.
- Respect the need to deliver worthy service for value received in an employer-employee relationship.
- Perform basic manipulative skills in the area of hairstyling, hair shaping, hair coloring, and texture services.
- Perform the basic analytical skills to determine proper hairstyle and makeup color application for the 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.
Course Outline:
- Basic Training – 150 hours of classroom instruction in general theory and practical application shall be provided and will include a minimum of the following subject areas:
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- Tools and their use
- Shampoo
- Understanding chemicals and use
- Types of hair
- Sanitation
- Hygiene
- Skin diseases and conditions
- Anatomy and physiology
- Electricity
- Ethics
- Nail technology
- Esthetics
- Practical Chemical Application/Hair Treatment – 500 hours of instruction, which shall be a combination of classroom instruction and hands-on experience, shall be provided in the following subject areas:
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- Chemical safety
- Permanent waving
- Hair coloring, tinting and bleaching
- Hair relaxing
- Hair and scalp conditioning
- Shampooing, toning and rinsing
- Hair Styling/Hair Dressing – 475 hours of instruction in hair styling, which shall be a combination of classroom instruction and hands-on experience, shall be provided in the following subject areas:
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- Cutting
- Thinning
- Shaping
- Trimming
- Application of electrical/mechanical equipment
- Curling
- Hair treatments
- Marcelling
- Shop Management, Sanitation and Interpersonal Relations –200 hours of classroom instruction shall be provided in the following subject areas:
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- Labor law
- Workers' compensation
- Client relations
- Bookkeeping
- Marketing and merchandising
- Emergency first aid
- Right-to-know laws
- Pertinent State and local laws and rules
- Business ethics
- Sanitation
- Electrical devices
- Personal grooming and hygiene
- Esthetics – 85 hours of instruction shall be provided
- Nail Technology – 55 hours of instruction shall be provided
- Electives – 35 hours
Grading Procedures / Dual Credit
Students are assigned theory 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 evaluated according to textbook procedures, performance standards established by the state licensing agency, and the Practical Cosmetology Skills Competency Evaluation Criteria.
Students must maintain a grade average of 83% and pass a final written and practical exam to maintain College of DuPage Dual Credit. Students working toward Illinois Cosmetology state license must maintain a 75% or higher.
Students must make up failed or missed tests and all incomplete assignments.
Numerical grades are considered according to the following scales, these scales will represent students wanting to maintain dual credit, achieve Illinois Cosmetology State Licensing and high school grades:
COD/TCD DUAL CREDIT SCALE
Practical/Written:
A=93%-100%
B=92.99%-88%
C=87.99%-83%
D=82.99%-75%
F=74.99 % and Below
ILLINOIS COSMETOLOGY LICENSE SCALE*
*MUST MAINTAIN 75% or higher
Practical/Written:
A= 90%-100
B= 89%-80
C= 79%-70% (*75% For License)
D= 69%-60%
F= 59% or lower
HIGH SCHOOL SCALE
Practical/Written:
A= 90%-100
B= 89%-80
C= 79%-70%
D= 69%-60%
F= 59% or lower