Home Science -As a Career

 Role of Women In Modern World

Today women are playing a dual role in Changing family lifestyles. Home Science can be a powerful tool in the hand of modern girls. The dual importance of home science is a basic concept that should be clearly understood by all, as home science is the only subject that prepare women to emerge as successful individual at the individual and family level  and enables  them to work.

Home Science helps to manage various resources like time ,money energy and skills .It can enhance your position and change resources  in variety of ways.

The main objectives of Home Science are to enable the students to develop;

[1] Educating a Person for family life.

[2] Managing the use of resources so that values and goals of the individual ,family and community can be achieved . 

[3] Combining  knowledge of relevant science and arts to broaden the horizons of Home Science

[4] To establish value that give meaning to personal ,family and community life , to set goals, to justify these values.

[5]To prepare students for Employment in home science and related fields.

[6] To Develop attitudes and tastes and values in students.

[7] Home Science education prepares for occupations in addition to home duties.

 
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Career In Home Science

The purpose of home Science is to promote the holistic development of individual families , their community and personality development .

The field of home science are 

[1] Food And nutrition

[2] Human Development 

[3] Textiles

[4]Family Resource management 

[5] Home Science Extension

A career in Home Science – Home science is the science of handling the home and this science includes all matters that involve the house, the family members, and their resources. This is the science of ‘better living’ and the core of the speciality is the family environment. The study of home science includes various things to manage the home in a proper and organized manner. There are many courses in home science offered by different colleges, universities, and private institutions. 

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1. Service and Tourism Industry: The courses in the home science discipline offer many opportunities in the tourism industry, tourist resorts, hotels, etc. as an interior designer, cooks, food analysts, catering agents, bakers as well as health care professionals. The professionals can get a job as a dietician in different schools, hospitals, colleges, and various organizations. [2[

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1. Healthcare Industry: The health centres are specialized to provide advice for the dietary requirements of individuals suffering from diverse illnesses. Appropriate nutrition and physical education enable the home science graduates to start their own support centres for people with special nutritional requirements. The support centres work to provide guidance and support to the individuals to stay fit by balancing their diet, exercise, and management of over weightiness and related conditions.
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3. Teaching and Research: After pursuing a course in home science, candidates also have teaching options. Provided, the applicants have to pursue a master’s degree in home science to become a teacher at the secondary level. For a graduate-level lecturer post, one must have cleared the UGC NET exam after completing a master’s degree in home science. The research positions are also open for the applicants if they clear the NET exam as per the JRF cut off score. 
4. Production Industry: In the production industry, there are different types of activities such as frozen food manufacturing, food preservatives, cooking, and different food production which require home science experts. The graduates can apply for the post of food analysts, quality analysts, quality controllers, and quality managers in food preservation departments, and food processing units.
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6. Nutrition and Dietetics: The demand for dieticians is rapidly increasing in India. They are the professionals who are concerned about the individual requirements and suggest diet as per human physiology, calorie consumption, and other factors. Their main role is to provide food analysis, food therapy, and food management. 
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8. Resource Management: Resource management includes home management by organizing all the required resources effectively and economically. Resource management implies furnishing of home with effective use of labour and money for getting maximum work done by spending minimum resources. 
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10. Clothing and Textile: The textile industry is one of the most successful in India with growth and attention to fashion and fabric. The job of home science individuals in the textile industry is for fabric construction, dyeing, printing, assessing, recognizing, and selecting fabrics or products from dealers based on suitability and checking for performance under various conditions. The job profiles are offered in the textile industry area apparel and textile designer                                 List of Under Graduate Level Courses after 12th Class 
11. B.Sc. in Home Science
12. B.Sc. in Home Science and Management
13. Certificate in Home Science
14. B A in Home Science
15. B A in Home Management
16. B.Sc. in Home Science and Nutrition
17. Diploma in Home Science