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NEW YORK STATE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE, CORNELL 



UNIVERSITY. 

 Announcement of Courses of Instruction in Home Economics. 



Beginning in the fall of 1907, Home Economics is established as a regular 

 department in the College of Agriculture. The object of this department is to 

 provide courses of instruction in those branches which best serve the interests of 

 women students and to furnish a basis for the practical correlation of Chemistry, 

 and the Physical, Biological and Social Sciences with Home Economics. Labora- 

 tory facilities are being provided, together with other modern equipment. The 

 work in Home Economics is in charge of Miss Flora Rose, and Miss Martha 

 Van Rensselasr. 



The courses to be given in this Department are devised to meet the needs of 

 three classes of students (days and hours of the exercises left for special arrange- 

 ments) : 



1. Regular academic work is planned for those students desiring special 

 training in Home Economics. 



2. Classes will be open to other students who desire only a general knowledge 

 of the principles and practice of Home Economics. 



3. A winter-course requiring less previous preparation on the part of the 

 student, is open to those desiring brief practical training in Home Economics. No 

 university credit is given for this course. 



Description of Academic Courses. 



The Academic work embraces seven classes as follows : 



1. The Home; 



2. House Construction, Sanitation and Decoration; 



3. Household ^^lanagement. 



4. Foods, Elementary Course. 



5. Foods, Advanced Course. 



6. Special Problems. For teachers. 



7. General Course. For students not desiring special training in Home Eco- 

 nomics. 



University Extension in Home Economics. 



The extension teaching in Home Economics is in two lines, — the winter-course 

 and the reading-course. 



IJ'iiiter-Comse. 



The College of Agriculture offers for the third year a course in Home Eco- 

 nomics, the object of which is to furnish such instruction as will improve the 

 farm homes of the state. Special attention will be given, so far as the facilities 

 permit, to instruction in sanitation, foods, home decoration, and household man- 

 agement, together with the relation of homemakers to the social forces of the 

 community. The instruction is suited to both men and women so far as both 

 are interested in building and maintaining a home. 



The course is especially adapted to those who would find it possible to accom- 

 pany members of the family who come to attend the other Winter-Courses. There 

 is no age limit above seventeen years in this course. It is an excellent opportunity 

 for women who have had household experience and who would supplement it with 



