From Home Economics to Human Ecology

 

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A changing curriculum for changing times
The courses offered by the School and the majors available to students have been dramatically transformed over the past 100 years. From a Department to a School, from home economics to family resources and consumer sciences to human ecology, the various name changes and structural revisions of the program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have reflected shifting contemporary concerns and redefinitions of the field. Beginning as a science-based general liberal arts program, over past ten decades the program has evolved into the professional school of today.
Student studying early childhood development textbook
A student reading, c. 1970