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About the Department

The Department of Home Science had started with Home Science as a subject in B.A in Maharanis College around 1958. In 1979, B.Sc. Home Science was introduced in Maharanis College. In the year 1985, Masters programme in Foods and Human Nutrition was started, followed by Masters in Human Development and Family in 1988 and in Development Communication and Extension in 1994.

The Department is also offering Ph.D. programmes in all the five disciplines, namely, Foods and Human Nutrition, Human Development and Family, Development Communication and Extension, Clothing and Textiles and Family Resource Management.

The admission in M.Sc. as well as Ph.D. programmes takes place through entrance examination conducted centrally by the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur for all the Departments. The Department is engaged in community outreach projects in collaboration with several organizations like UNICEF, CARE, DST, Prayas, DWCD, NHM etc in a big way.

Infrastructural Facilities

• Lecture theatres
• Well equipped Laboratories
• Library
• Smart Classroom
• Audio Visual laboratory with LCD projector
• Computers with Internet access

Ph.D. Programme: The faculty members of the Department are recognized as Ph.D. guides and are engaged in active research.

Thrust Areas

• Foods and Human Nutrition
• Human Development and Family
• Development Communication and Extension
• Education
• Evaluation of Community Development Programmes
• Family Resource Management
• Media and Development
• Clothing and Textiles
• Development and Health
• Child, Women and Family
• Community and Clinical Nutrition
• Socio Techno Economic Studies
• Child, Parenting and Personality Development
• Under Privileged Segments of Society
• Community Outreach
• Rural Mapping for need Assessment

Other Highlights

Home Science is one of the twelve Departments of the University having Special Assistance Programme(SAP-DRS-II). UN agencies like UNICEF support the Department of Home Science as one of its close and active partners to provide technical support to developmentalprogrammes.

The Department has an Alumni Association which was established in the Department in 2000. The alumni have been working asdietitians, consultants and counselors in various government and non government organizations (NGOs), as teachersand entrepreneurs.

MASTER'S PROGRAMME: MASTER OF SCIENCE (HOME SCIENCE)

THE DEPARTMENT OF HOME SCIENCE OFFERS M.SC. IN THREE SPECIALIZATIONS WHICH ARE AS FOLLOWS:

CourseSeatsDuration

Foods and Human Nutrition

15

Four Semesters

Human Development and Family

15

Four Semesters

Development Communication and Extension

15

Four Semesters

NOTE: THE ADMISSIONS FOR M.SC. HOME SCIENCE IS ONLY FOR GIRLS.

Faculty

Head & Professor

• Anuradha Goyle

Associate Professors

• Sunita Agrawal
• Muta Agrawal
• Reshma Boolchandani
• Shubha Dube
• Ruby Jain
• Kavita Karodia
• Nimali Singh
• Kanika Varma

Assistant Professors

• Kesar Chayal
• Kavita Kachhawa
• Manju
• Lalita Vatta