Home Science referred to as domestic science, home craft or domestic economy and was introduced in some schools and colleges between 1920 to 1940, under the British administration. The Princely State of Baroda was one of the first to introduce home science in secondary school. The history of home science at College & University was made in 1932 at Delhi, in Lady Irwin College. Then in 1938 Madras University accepted home science at the degree level and the well known & pioneering home science colleges in Chennai are the Queen Mary’s College and the Women’s Christian College, which appeared in the Indian horizon in 1942. Home Scienceeducation was initially designed and structured around the urban home makers and her family and community. With the advent of Agricultural universities, the focus of Home science was shifted to the rural family with emphasis on intra-family resources, since rural families are composite and integrated units which function as both consumption and production units. The objectives of the course are as follows.
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