Faculty of Community Science

The B.Sc. (Hons.) Community Science (formerly known as B.Sc. (Hons.) Home Science) is a four-year professional degree program. The first three years comprise common basic and core courses along with skill enhancement modules, providing a strong foundation across all disciplines. In the final year (7th semester), students will choose a specialization in one of the five departments through elective courses. The last semester (8th) is dedicated to the Student READY Programme, which includes Rural Awareness Work Experience (RAWE), experiential learning, internship or a special project within the chosen department.
The five departments under the Faculty of Community Science are:

1. Foods and Nutrition
2. Human Development and Family Studies
3. Apparel Design and Textiles
4. Resource Management and Consumer Sciences
5. Extension Education and Communication Management

Upon successful completion of the program, students are awarded the B.Sc. (Hons.) Community Science degree. Graduates are eligible to pursue postgraduate (PG) and doctoral (Ph.D.) studies with specializations in any of the five core disciplines offered by the faculty.
Implementation of VI Deans Syllabus in Community Science (from Academic Year 2024-25):

• The College of Community Science, PJTAU, adopted VI Deans syllabus as per National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 guidelines.
• The re-structured curriculum emphasises greatly on Skill Enhancement Courses.

Objective of the Restructured Curriculum (B.Sc. (Hons.) Community Science):

• To strengthen critical thinking, creativity, communication, and collaboration.
• To promote a holistic and flexible learning experience.

Overview of the Undergraduate Program

• 4-year degree program with 167 credit hours of coursework.
• Includes 10 credits of MOOCs/online courses and 4 credits of non-gradial courses.

Foundation & Common Courses

• Deeksharambh: 2-week Foundation Course in the 1st semester covering academic orientation, ethics, values, cultural heritage, and more.
• Includes multi-disciplinary, value-added, ability enhancement, and NSS/NCC courses.

Skill Enhancement Courses (SEC)

• Focus on hands-on skill development in Community Science during the 1st and 2nd years.
• 12 credit hours of SEC across 4 semesters (modules 1–4).
• Students choose skill modules from 5 domain areas after a common orientation.
• Flexibility to select modules based on interest or local needs.

Year-wise Structure

• Year 1: Basic & skill development courses.
• Year 2: Advanced skill modules + fundamental theory courses.
• Year 3: Core courses + 10–12 day study tour (2 non-gradial credits).
• Year 4: Specialization through 20-credit Electives + Student READY program in 8th semester (RAWE, internship, project, etc.).

Scope for online learning

• Up to 10 credits can be earned via MOOCs (SWAYAM, NPTEL, edX, Coursera, etc.).
• Courses can be from any discipline and will be recorded in Academic Bank of Credits (ABC).
• Separate certificates will be issued for these courses.

READY Programme:
Student READY programme in final year (8th Semester) includes, Rural Awareness Work Experience (RAWE) in villages, experiential learning, and internship/in-plant training in reputed institutions were being offered as a unique practical oriented professional course. The brief information about components of student READY Programme is as follows
Student READY (Rural Entrepreneurship Awareness Development Yojana)

1. RAWE:

The Rural Awareness Work Experience (RAWE) helps the students primarily to understand the rural situations, status of homestead / agricultural technologies adopted by rural families, prioritize their problems and to develop skills and attitude of working with farm families for overall development in rural area.

2. Experiential Learning Prgramme:

The motto of the Experiential Learning Programme in agriculture universities is to “Earn while Doing”. This approach emphasizes hands-on, practical experience as a key component of learning, allowing students to apply theoretical knowledge in real-world agricultural settings. College of Community Science has 4 established AELP units as given below.

• Health millet biscuits under Millet Processing and Incubation centre (MPIC).
• Value added textiles & Apparel, Eco Products including Eco Paints (EP), Ganesh Idol Painting under Natural Dye Processing and Incubation Centre (NDPIC).
• Development of Interior Decoration Accessories and Furnishings using Floral materials and other handicrafts under Floral Art Production Unit.
• Development of instructional material using photo editing software like Adobe Photoshop, CANVA and Adobe-in-design under Knowledge Material Production Unit.

3. Internship/Implant Training:

The programme provides an opportunity to develop insight into the practical application of academic knowledge, serves as the essential transition between formal education and professional practice. The internship is proposed to assist the students’ in obtaining a broad range of quality professional experience, aids in preparing and developing potentially employable graduates ready to serve the industry. The programme helps the students to develop their personality and capacity to adapt to, and handle, challenging situations in the real business world. Through the internship program, the students should be able to acquire communications skills, interpersonal skills, technical skills, teamwork skills, management skills and problem solving skills.

College of Home Science - Placement Cell and Alumni details

Placement Cell
Alumni
Vigyana Saadhitha
HECM
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