IOWA STATUTES AND CODES
158.8 - COURSE OF STUDY.
158.8 COURSE OF STUDY.
1. The course of study of a barber school shall consist of at
least two thousand one hundred hours of instruction as prescribed by
the board and shall include instruction in all phases of the practice
of barbering as defined in section 158.1, subsection 1. The course
shall require at least ten months of instruction for completion. The
course shall include not less than three hundred hours of
demonstrations and lectures in the following areas: law; ethics;
equipment; shop management; history of barbering; sanitation;
sterilization; personal hygiene; first aid; bacteriology; anatomy;
scalp, skin, hair and their common disorders; electricity as applied
to barbering; chemistry and pharmacology; scalp care; hair body
processing; hairpieces; honing and stropping; shaving; facials,
massage and packs; haircutting; hair tonics; dyeing and bleaching;
instruments; soaps; and shampoos, creams, lotions, waxes, and tonics.
It shall include not less than one thousand four hundred hours of
supervised practical instruction in the following areas: scalp care
and shampooing, honing and stropping, shaving, haircutting,
hairstyling and blow waving, dyeing and bleaching, hair body
processing, facials, waxing, massage and packs, beard and mustache
trimming, and hairpieces.
2. A person licensed under section 157.3 who enrolls in a barber
school shall be granted full credit for each course successfully
completed which meets the requirements of the barber school, which
shall be credited toward the two thousand one hundred hour
requirement, and the ten-month period does not apply. A person who
has been a student in a school of cosmetology arts and sciences
licensed under chapter 157 may enroll in a barber school and shall be
granted, at the discretion of the school, at least half credit and up
to full credit for each course successfully completed which meets the
requirements of the barber school. Section History: Early Form
[C77, 79, 81, § 158.8] Section History: Recent Form
88 Acts, ch 1110, § 4; 92 Acts, ch 1205, § 20; 2009 Acts, ch 56,
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Referred to in § 158.7, 261.18