820 IAC 4-4-7.3

820 IAC 4-4-7.3 Specific curriculum for barbers

Last amended: 2026Year: 2027Length: 389 wordsOfficial source

Cite as Ind. Admin. Code tit. 820, r. 4-4-7.3

Sec. 7.3. (a) This section establishes the curriculum for barber training. The first column in subsection (c) states the subject matter of the 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. This system is distinguished from actual practice. (c) The following are the requirements for barber training: Subject Theory and Demonstration Actual Practice Total Hours Sanitation, bacteriology, and sterilization 40 40 Statutes and rules 20 75 95 Salesmanship 5 10 15 Management 10 10 Skin 10 10 Hair 10 10 Facials 20 25 45 Hair styling (includes air waving, finger waves, and thermal curling, electricity and light therapy high frequency) 25 25 50 UV/Infrared 10 10 Chemistry 10 10 Shampoo/massage 20 50 70 Scalp treatment 10 25 35 Shaving/shaping (includes mustache and beard) 20 75 95 History of barbering 10 10 Honing and stropping 15 15 Professional ethics 10 10 Personal hygiene 25 25 Equipment care 10 10 Hair coloring 25 25 50 Semi permanent, permanent, permanent waving, and chemical relaxing 55 55 110 Haircutting 150 400 550 Anatomy and physiology 15 15 Hairpieces, full, partial, facial 50 10 60 Discretionary hours 50 100 150 Total: 625 875 1,500 (d) Students are required to complete not fewer than the number of actual practice performances provided for in the progress report required by section 16 of this rule. (e) All: (1) facials; (2) salesmanship; and (3) scalp treatments; must be done on live models. At least twenty-five percent (25%) of the other services must be done on live models. (f) The actual practice not described in subsection (e) may be on actual customers of the beauty culture school. However, students may not work on customers of the beauty culture school until they have completed a total of fifty (50) hours. Customers shall be rotated according to the students' needs for practice on live models.