Section 820 IAC 8-2-8 - CurriculumAuthority: IC 25-7-5-14; IC 25-7-5-15
Affected: IC 25-7-7
Sec. 8.
(a) This section establishes the curriculum for barber training. The first column in subsection (c) states the subject matter of training. The second column lists the number of hours required in classroom theory training and demonstration practice required for each student. The third column lists the actual practice required for each student. The fourth column lists the total number of hours of training required in each subject.(b) The hours required in classroom theory training identified in subsection (a) are defined as a systematically organized knowledge of a system of facts, accepted principles, laws, and rules of procedure devised to analyze, predict, explain, or demonstrate the nature of a particular subject matter of training. Such a system is distinguished from actual practice.(c) The following are the requirements for barber training: | Subject | Theory and Demonstration Practice | Actual Practice | Total Hours |
| Sanitation, bacteriology, and sterilization | 40 | | 40 |
| Laws and rules | 20 | | 20 |
| Salesmanship | 5 | 10 | 15 |
| Management | 10 | | 10 |
| Skin | 10 | | 10 |
| Hair | 10 | | 10 |
| Facials | 20 | 25 | 45 |
| Hair styling, (includes air waving, | | | |
| fingerwaves, and thermal curling) | 75 | 150 | 225 |
| Electricity/light therapy | | | |
| High frequency | | | |
| UV/infrared | 10 | | 10 |
| Chemistry | 10 | | 10 |
| Shampoo/massage | 20 | 50 | 70 |
| Scalp treatment | 10 | 25 | 35 |
| History of barbering | 10 | | 10 |
| Shaving/shaping (includes mustache and | | | |
| beard) | 20 | 25 | 45 |
| Honing and stropping | 15 | | 15 |
| Personal hygiene/professional ethics | 10 | | 10 |
| Equipment care | 10 | | 10 |
| Hair coloring | 60 | 70 | 130 |
| Semipermanent | | | |
| Permanent | | | |
| Permanent waving and chemical relaxing | 55 | 210 | 265 |
| Haircuts | 100 | 200 | 300 |
| Anatomy and physiology | 15 | | 15 |
| Hairpieces | | | |
| Full, partial, facial | 50 | | 50 |
| Discretionary hours | 50 | 100 | 150 |
| 635 | 865 | 1,500 |
State Board of Cosmetology and Barber Examiners; Rule 21; filed Jan 2, 1946, 9:45 a.m.: Rules and Regs. 1947, p. 695; filed Feb 20, 1986, 3:00 p.m.: 9 IR 1658; filed Jan 5, 1994, 5:00 p.m.: 17 IR 995; readopted filed Jun 22, 2001, 8:59 a.m.: 24 IR 3823; readopted filed Oct 4, 2007, 3:36 p.m.: 20071031-IR-816070045RFA; readopted filed November 25, 2013, 9:22 a.m.: 20131225-IR-820130286RFAReadopted filed 11/27/2019, 3:14 p.m.: 20191225-IR-820190183RFA Transferred from the Board of Barber Examiners ( 816 IAC 1-2-8 ) to the State Board of Cosmetology and Barber Examiners ( 820 IAC 8-2-8 ) by P.L. 84-2010, SECTION 103, effective July 1, 2010.