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Chapter: 11th Home Science : Chapter 1 : Concepts and Scope of Home Science

Educational and Vocational Scope of Home Science

The future career prospects for graduates and post graduates in Home Science are as follows:

EDUCATIONAL AND VOCATIONAL SCOPE OF HOME SCIENCE

 

At the College / University level, Home Science is offered as a Bachelor’s Degree programme with a duration of three years and as a Master’s Degree programme with a duration of 2 years. Master of Philosophy in Home Science is one year programme. The course offered in some of the reputed colleges and universities in Tamil Nadu are given in Table-2.

 

The future career prospects for graduates and post graduates in Home Science are as follows:

 

1. Clinical Dietician

 

·        Hospitals and outpatient clinics,

 

·        Work with chefs in hospitals, cor-porate sectors, hostel and day care centres.

 

·        Consultants in diet and health

 

2. Public Health Nutritionists

 

·        Public health departments such as ICDS and Noon Meal Programme,

 

·        Food experts and scientists in insti-tutes such as Central Food Technolog-ical Research Institute and National Institute of Nutrition.

 

3. Academicians and Research Scholars

 

·        Teaching in schools, colleges, univer-sities, health professional colleges and culinary schools

 

·        Manage or assist with clinical proto-cols, interventions or clinical trials.

 

4. Consultant / Private Practice

 

·        Dietary consultants or Dietitians at hospitals after being certified as Regis-tered Dietitians.

 

·        Client counselling for weight manage-ment, eating disorders, sports nutri-tion, disease management,

 

·        Write cookbooks, educational pro-grams, articles for local newspapers or specialty magazines,

 

5. Business and Industry

 

Careers in business and industry include jobs such as sales, marketing, public relations, research and devel-opment (labeling, recipes, product information and production, quality control)

 

·        Food production ( food products & preservation),

 

·        Nutraceuticals.

 

·        Hotel Industry.

 

·        Fashion designing 


 

·              Establishing day care centres for babies and Pre-school children.

 

6. National and International Food Organizations

 

Based on the specialisation in various branches of Home Science a student may gain entry into

 

·              OrganizationssuchasWorldHealthOrgani-zation, Food and Agriculture Organization,

 

·              Public Policy / Government organizations

 

·              Public service through group service examination

 

Activity 1

How will you motivate your friends in Junior school to enrol for the subject Home Science in higher education by highlighting the scope of Home Science.

 

 



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