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NEW DELHI: Home Science is not about making curry and laying the table right. Decades after it was first introduced, there may be only two colleges in Delhi University that offer the Home Science course, but with a healthy lifestyle increasingly becoming the norm, it is no longer just the choice of a few. An area that continues to be misunderstood by most students, the course is fast gaining popularity and is a good option for students from both the Science and Social Science streams. Providing students with options in postgraduate courses as well as a job right after college, it has now seen some new additions making it an even more viable option. Offered by the Institute of Home Economics and Lady Irwin College, the area gives students many options to choose from. Apart from the B.Sc. (Pass) course, the Institute of Home Economics also offers a B.Sc. (Honours) course with majors in Food and Nutrition, Human Development, Fabric and Apparel Designing, Resource Management and Communication and Extension (C&E). The college also offers B.Sc. (Honours) in Microbiology, Bachelor of Elementary Education and a postgraduate diploma in dietics and public health nutrition, apart from M.Sc. in Food and Nutrition and M.Sc. in Textiles and Clothing. "Some of the biggest misconceptions that students come to us with are that Home Science is only about cooking and washing, that it is all about domestic science. In reality it is a highly specialised course that gives students a profession and not just a degree. Our students are being hired by national and international non-government organisations as soon as they finish their programmes,'' says Kumud Khanna, Principal of the Institute. While pointing out that the courses are built on the base of pure sciences as well as Social Sciences, teachers say except for some courses that can be done only by Science students, others can be done by students of Social Sciences. The last date for submission of forms at both colleges is June 15.
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