This study was designed to attain the following purposes: To determine the exploratory courses which were being offered in the eighth grade of the five-year high school programs. To determine the course content of these exploratory courses in homemaking. To determine the practices followed in organizing and conducting these courses. To determine the length of the exploratory course in homemaking. To determine what effect the eighth-grade exploratory homemaking course had on enrollment in the vocational course in homemaking. / Master of Science