Home science is an interdisciplinary field of knowledge with focus on:-

Foods and Nutrition,
Textile and Apparel Designing,
Human Development and Family Studies,
Resource Management
Extension Education and Communication Management.

Subjects taught in different semesters are Family Resource Management, Health & Hygiene, Human Physiology, Clothing & Textiles, Food & Nutrition and Human Development.

In practical classes the students are taught Interior Decoration, First Aid, Garment Designing, Drafting and Construction, Embroidery, Tie & Dye, Meal Planning, Preservation, Recipes using various cooking methods, etc.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF HOME SCIENCE

Home scienceaims to achieve family happiness, raise its moral standards and improves its economic conditions. It also helps each individualto live more useful and satisfying personal, family and community life. Home science helps pupils to develop a point of view that challenges them to explore how to live together happily in their families, other social groups and communities. The objectives of Home science are to be achieved by fully allowing the boy/man as well as the girl/woman to develop personally and professionally.

WHAT WAS THE NEED TO START HOME SCIENCE ?

It is a faculty of science that prepares its students to develop themselves with multiple vocational and career options.

Home science education prepares youth for home making as well as several professions- teaching, nursing, dietetics, research, welfare, management, art application, extension work and communication.

Men as well as women have played the roles of breadwinners and homemakers. It has become necessary for men to share housework, to enable women as professional persons to contribute to the nation.

Department offers Home Science as an optional subject at undergraduate Level. A degree in Home Science opens up excellent career opportunities, while also equipping students with the skills needed to manage their home in a dynamic environment.

• BA 1 SEM I
• COURSE TITLE : HOME MANAGEMENT &HYGIENE
• COURSE OUTCOMES
• Studying home management provides opportunities for students to understand and shape preferred solutions to a range of challenges in their personal, family, community and work roles.
• Provide opportunities for students to Balance work responsibilities with personal responsibilities and leisure.
• Take control of their health and develop health promoting behaviours.

• Make informed, responsible and ethical consumer decision

• BA 1 SEM II
• COURSE TITLE : RESOUCE MANAGEMENT & HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY

COURSE OUTCOMES

• Provide opportunities for students to utilize design and technology relevant to families and households.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the physiology and basic regulatory concepts related to the functioning of life processes.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the physiology and basic regulatory concepts of the organ systems associated with this course and the mechanisms that allow the body to carry out those functions, and predict how a perturbation (e.g., disease, experimental manipulation) will alter function.

BA 2 SEM III

COURSE TITLE : CLOTHING

COURSE OUTCOMES

• To advance knowledge and pushing the boundaries in fashion, textiles and design.
• Todiscuss different types and styles of clothing.
• To analyze the roles of weather and occasion in clothing choice and explain the primary functions of clothing.

BA 2 SEM IV

COURSE TITLE : TEXTILES

COURSE OUTCOMES

• To understand the detailed structure of fiber, yarn and fabrics
• To understand the properties of fiber, yarn and fabrics.
• To understand the behavior of fiber, yarn and fabrics in end condition.
• To become able to design fiber, yarn and fabric having the required properties to meet the end-user requirements.
• To identify faults & their causes & nature in fiber, yarn and fabrics

BA 3 SEM V

COURSE TITLE : FOOD SCIENCE & CHILD DEVELOPMENT I

• COURSE OUTCOME
• Provide opportunities for students to develop related knowledge and skills such as those related to food preparation, food technology and food consumption.

• Design, evaluate and make decisions related to food.

• To understand and take action to enhance human growth and development.

BA 3 SEM VI

COURSE TITLE : FOOD SCIENCE & CHILD DEVELOPMENT II

• COURSE OUTCOME
•  Unable students to choose nutritious foods in a changing market place.
• To prepare nutritious foods and develop health promoting food behaviors.
• Demonstrate the use of the scientific method and quantitative reasoning in the field of child care.