Current through all regulations passed and filed through December 16, 2024
(A) Each
school shall annually provide to the board a course curriculum for review and
approval that takes into consideration the subjects and coursework required to
receive an initial cosmetology license, advanced practice license, or barber
license, including incorporating any standards adopted by the board pursuant to
Chapters 4709. and 4713. of the Revised Code.
(1) A proprietary school may use its own form
to outline its course curriculum, but the board shall approve the course
curriculum prior to its use.
(2)
Prior to the beginning of each school year, a career technical school must
outline its course curriculum using forms provided by the board.
(3) Course curriculum outlines are available
on the board's website.
(4) Should
the board make any changes to the approved course curriculum, the board shall
notify all schools of the changes and post those changes to the board's
website.
(5) Career technical
schools shall also receive Ohio department of education (ODE) approval for any
program course curriculum changes or program additions.
(B) All career technical schools and
proprietary schools offering programs in cosmetology, or a branch of
cosmetology, may schedule either clock hours, credit hours, or competency-based
credit hours in accordance with the rules of the board and in an amount
equivalent to the total clock hours required for each program offered.
Competency-based credit shall only be offered for academic courses allowed
under paragraphs (B)(1), (B)(2), and (B)(3) of this rule. Career technical
schools shall meet the program requirements as follows:
(1) The total time scheduled for the
cosmetology program shall be at least fifteen hundred hours and sufficient to
complete and pass the approved course curriculum. Cosmetology students shall
successfully complete and pass the cosmetology program course curriculum which
may include up to a maximum of four academic courses that meet state curriculum
minimum graduation requirements and are taken during the time the student is
enrolled in the cosmetology program. The academic courses to be taken during
the time the student is enrolled in the cosmetology program can include any of
the courses in paragraph (B)(4) of this rule, or if a student is on an IEP, as
required by the IEP.
(2) The total
time scheduled for the hair design program shall be at least
one
thousand hours and sufficient to complete and pass the approved course
outline curriculum. Hair design program students shall complete and pass hair
design course outlines which may include up to a maximum of
one hundred fifty hours of academic courses that
meet state curriculum minimum requirements and are taken during the time the
student is enrolled in the hair design program. The academic courses to be
taken during the time the student is enrolled in the hair design program can
include any of the courses in paragraph (B)(5) of this rule, or if a student is
on an IEP, as required by the IEP.
(3) The total time scheduled for the
esthetics program shall be at least six hundred hours and sufficient to
complete and pass the approved course outline curriculum. Esthetics program
students shall complete and pass esthetics course outlines which may include up
to a maximum of
one hundred fifty hours of academic courses that
meet state curriculum minimum requirements and are taken during the time the
student is enrolled in the esthetics program. The academic course to be taken
during the time the student is enrolled in the esthetics program can include
any of the courses in paragraph (B)(5) of this rule, or if a student is on an
IEP, as required by the IEP.
(4)
The four academic courses from the following list shall be the only courses
counted in paragraph (A)(1) of
this rule: anatomy; physiology; chemistry; advanced chemistry; any mathematics;
finance; business marketing; integrated English III and IV; applied
communications; English language and composition; speech; physics, and advanced
biology courses accepted as meeting graduation requirements of twenty-one
carnegie units or as required by the IEP. The four academic courses that shall
be counted as part of the total time scheduled for the approved program shall
constitute no more than twenty-five per cent of the hours required to complete
the program.
(5)
The one hundred fifty hours of academic courses may
only be on the following subjects: anatomy; physiology; chemistry; advanced
chemistry; physics; biology; advanced biology.
(C) Career technical schools may contract
with proprietary schools for students to complete and pass portions of the
course curriculum in order to obtain full credit for the cosmetology program.
Career technical schools are responsible for student outcomes unless the
contract states otherwise.
(D)
Barber schools shall meet the program requirements as follows:
(1) The total time scheduled for the standard
barber program shall be at least eighteen hundred hours and comply with the
program requirements set forth in rule
4713-5-02 of the Administrative
Code.
(2) The total time scheduled
for a barber program for licensed cosmetologists and hair designers shall be at
least one thousand hours and comply with the program requirements set forth in
rule
4713-5-02 of the Administrative
Code.
(3) The total time scheduled
for a barber teacher training program shall be at least five hundred hours and
comply with the program requirements set forth in rule
4713-7-12 of the Administrative
Code.