Home Science brings about the opportunity for students to get a deeper insight into the workings and management of houses and community. Through this program, candidates are rendered an overview of the various aspects of society and how one can be helpful in providing service to the people through their skills. students are required to be aware of topics like health, lifestyle, and diet which can further help them in taking up jobs in nutrition and health care as counselors. The sessions include an in-detail study comprising of topics like interior design, clothing, sewing, furnishing, consumer education, institutional management, child development, food preservation, money management, family relationships and much more.
The course includes theory as well as project work comprising of the topics mentioned, allowing candidates to showcase and explore their creative bent of mind. The post-graduate programme in this discipline has been designed to provide the students with intensive and extensive theoretical and experiential learning. The programme allows flexibility in the choice of thrust areas, which students can select, based on their career goals. It is envisaged that the current scenario at the regional and national level require trained professionals in areas such Clinical and Therapeutic Nutrition, Extension Management, Apparel Design and Construction, Child and Human Rights, Nutrition for Health and Fitness, Fashion Design.
Eligibility
(a) Maharashtra State Candidate:
The Candidate should be an Indian National and having domicile of Maharashtra state and / or born in Maharashtra state.
Graduate (B.Sc.) Community Science, Food Nutrition and Home Science as one of the Subject or its equivalent examination and the candidate should have appeared in MGMU - CET 2024 should obtain non zero score in MGMU - CET 2024.
OR (b) All India Candidates:
The Candidate should be an Indian National.
Graduate (B.Sc.) Community Science, Food Nutrition and Home Science as one of the Subject or its equivalent examination and the candidate should have appeared in MGMU - CET 2024 should obtain non zero score in MGMU - CET 2024.
Key Features:
This is a two years Post-Graduation program to make the students aware about common food processing techniques and understand the physico-chemical properties of foods. To enable the students to understand the current trends in nutrition, functions, deficiencies and toxicity of different nutrients and acquaint about nutritional requirement in special conditions.
To acquaint the students with principles, techniques and application of different methods of analysis for various nutrients and enable the students to know physiological changes and nutritional requirements during various stages of life cycle.
To enable the students to understand the concept of product development, their sensory evaluation and quality control and understand the role of nutrition during pregnancy, lactation and infancy.
The course acquaint the students about various consumer issues related to products and services in rural and urban context and aware students about the trends and impact of communication media on consumers.
Home Science is closely related with polymer and chemistry of textiles fibers and impart them knowledge about structure-property relatins of textile fibers and acquaint with recent development in fibers.
The curriculum integrating several elective courses, besides the core, has been formulated to provide professionally competent manpower for
Nutritionist, Dietician and Food Analyst
Health and Nutrition Journalist
Counsellor, Professor and Research Scientist
Demonstrator
Academic and research activities
Hospitals, food service institutions and industries
Managerial roles in agencies and institutions both Government and NGO sector.
Planning, monitoring and evaluation of nutrition and health programmes
Training and IEC activities of regional and national programmes
Ensuring food safety and quality for consumers
Entrepreneurial ventures
Advocacy and consultancy
Research Associate: Perform field or laboratory work
Work on collecting data, through surveys, interviews, etc.
Food Technician: Assist in conducting internal audits
Create fresh product concepts, research current consumer markets and cutting-edge technologies.
Textile Quality Executive: Analyze whether quality standard are met or not
Resolve any issue related to quality standards Maintain daily database and checks for quality
Health Coach: Assist customers in developing ways to enhance their wellness and health. Collaborate with clients and understand medical issues, nutrition, and food.
Identify changes in behavior and habits.
Research Analyst: Collecting data and interpreting for decision making
Understand recent trends and assist in strategy making
Product Executive: Evaluate and analyze any new product ideas
Look after designer list merchandising Give assistance to customers regarding products
This Laboratory is used by second year as well as third year students for carrying out Practicals related to Web development, Python, Android, JAVA, Database management systems etc.
This Laboratory is used by second year as well as third year students for carrying out practical related to Big data Computing, Mobile computing, Microprocessor programming, Image processing etc.
This Laboratory is used by third year students for carrying out practicals related to Software Engineering, Computer networks, Enterprise Resource Planning etc.
