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Originally posted by valkyrie
I'm curious about what you posted earlier about how girls used to learn more about how to run a household. Do you know what they actually learned? I'm curious about it -- it was an entire course of study? I find that fascinating because I can't imagine how it would be necessary -- I mean, it's not that hard to clean the house, or read a cookbook if you don't know how to cook. Was there a lot more to it than that?
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At one point, you could get a bachelor of science in Home Economics/Household Arts/Domestic Science at the University of Toronto. Brescia University College, a Catholic women's college affiliated with the University of Western Ontario still offers programs like this. THere are a few family studies programs at Brescia, Information on two of them can be found here:
http://www.brescia.uwo.ca/fac/dbsc.htm for the science program
http://www.brescia.uwo.ca/fac/dba.htm for arts
It is not just foods/nutrition, but also clothing and human behaviour, housing, etc.
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