UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA

Department of Child Development

and Social Relationship

Syllabus for
Four years B.Sc. Honours
in
Home Economics (Grading System)
Sessions: 2020-2021 onwards

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 University of Dhaka
Department of Child Development & Social Relationship

Syllabus for Four Years B.Sc. Honours in Home Economics (Grading

System) For the Sessions-2020-2021 onwards
For every country, the most important and valuable thing is their human resource. The main
purpose of Child Development and Social Relationship is to develop a normal human being
into a resourceful human being. The philosophy and the idea is that proper care and guidance
can ensure proper development in every stage of our life. It also identifies our problems of
life (both individual and social) and influences us to choose the right path for overcoming
them.

As because the subject enlightens us on exploring ourselves and helps us to identify our
strength and weakness, that is why it gives the magical key and with its help we really can
make a difference in our lives.

Students are expected to know themselves and their responsibilities and manage all the ups
and downs of their lives. They will know the way to open the door of success in every sector
of their lives both professional and personal.

A huge arena of professional choices are there for students. These are- teaching, counselling,
policy making, working with GOs and NGOs in different social issues (early marriage,
divorce, maternal and child health, child nutrition, IQ, mental health, child with special
needs) research works and various ECD programs.

The Year-wise credits distribution of the Departmental and Extra-

Departmental areas for the Department of Child Development and Social
Relationship

Departmental
Courses Extra-
YEAR
Departmental Total Total
Theory Practical Viva Total Courses Credits Marks

1st Year 8 4 2 14 12 26 650

nd
2 Year 12 4 2 18 12 30 750
3rd Year 22 8 2 32 08 40 1000
th
4 Year 26 8 2 36 --- 36 900
Total credits 68 24 8 100 28 132 3300

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 Courses for 1st Year
Departmental Courses
Course No. Name Credits Marks
CD-101 Introduction to Child Development 4 100
CD-102 Maternal and Child Health 4 100
CD-103 Practical I 2 50
CD-104 Practical II 2 50
CD-105 Viva-voce 2 50
TOTAL 14 350

Extra-Departmental Courses
Course No. Name Credits Marks
HE-151 Food and Nutrition 3 75
HE-152 Resource Management and Entrepreneurship 3 75
HE-154 Basic Art and Crafts 3 75
HE-155 Clothing and Textile 3 75
TOTAL 12 300

Courses for 2nd Year

Departmental Courses
Course No. Name Credits Marks
CD-201 The Developing Child 4 100
CD-202 The Child and Family 4 100
CD-203 Child and Family Welfare in Bangladesh 4 100
CD-204 Practical I 2 50
CD-205 Practical II 2 50
CD-206 Viva-voce 2 50
TOTAL 18 450

Extra-Departmental Courses
Course No. Name Credits Marks
HE-252 General Biology 4 100
HE-255 English 4 100
HE-257 Psychology 4 100
TOTAL 12 300

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 Courses for 3rd Year
Departmental Courses
Course No. Name Credits Marks
CD-301 Early Childhood Education 4 100
CD-302 Child in the Social Context 4 100
CD-303 Theories of Child Development 4 100
CD-304 Development of Adolescent 4 100
CD-305 ICT in context of Child Development 4 100
CD-306 Nutrition for the Child 2 50
CD-307 Practical I 2 50
CD-308 Practical II 2 50
CD-309 Practical III 2 50
CD-310 Practical IV 2 50
CD-311 Viva-voce 2 50
TOTAL 32 800

Extra-Departmental Courses
Course No. Name Credits Marks
HE-351 Sociology 4 100
HE-352 History of the Emergence of Independent Bangladesh 4 100
TOTAL 8 200

Courses for 4th Year

Departmental Courses
Course No. Name Credits Marks
CD-401 Child Behavior and Guidance 4 100
CD-402 Child with Special Need 4 100
CD-403 Gender and Women Empowerment 4 100
CD-404 Project Designing 4 100
CD-405 Statistic and Research Methodology 4 100
CD-406 Adulthood and Aging 2 50
CD-407 Counseling in Family 4 100
CD-408 Practical I 2 50
CD-409 Practical II 2 50
CD-410 Practical III 2 50
CD-411 Internship 2 50
CD-412 Viva-voce 2 50
TOTAL 36 900

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 Courses for 1st Year
Departmental Courses

Introduction to Child Development

Course No. CD-101 Credit: 4

1. Introduction to child development:

Some historical perspectives, meaning of growth and development, stages of
development, principles of development.
2. Methods of studying children:
Baby biographies, twin studies, longitudinal method, cross-sectional method,
observation method, case studies.
3. Biological foundations:
Types of cells, chromosome, gene, gene and chromosomal abnormalities,
heredity and environmental controversy.
4. Prenatal development:
Reproductive system, conception and stages of prenatal development, gender
determination, multiple off-springs.
5. Physical and Perceptual development:
Height-weight, brain development, endocrine glands, muscle-fat, skeletal growth,
immunological defence, teeth, sensation and perception ( touch, taste, smell,
hearing and vision), factors affecting physical growth.
6. Motor development :
Characteristics and sequence of motor development, motor skills.
7 Speech development :
Pre-speech forms of communication, ways of learning speak (infancy, early
childhood, middle and late childhood).
8 Cognitive development and creativity :
Piaget’s cognitive development theory (sensory motor stages), development of
creativity, relations between intelligence and creativity.
9. Emotional development :
Characteristics, common emotional patterns, sequence of emotions, emotional
dominance, emotional balance, emotional control.
10. Social development :
Meaning of social development, importance of early social experiences,
attachment in social development, factors affecting social development,
socialization.
11. The child with special needs:
Definition, classification, intellectual disability, autism, down syndrome, family
and societal responsibilities and awareness.

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Recommended Books:
1. E. Berk Laura, 2009, Child Development, 8th edition, PHI learning private
limited, New Delli-11001.
2. W. Santrock John, 2004, Child Development, 10th edition, McGraw. Hill, 1211,
Avenue of the America, New York.
3. E. Papalia Drane, Sally Wendkos Olds, Ruth Duskin Feldman, Dana Gross,
2004., Human Development, 9th edition, Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing
Company Limited New Delhi.
4. P. Sarafino Edward, James W. Armstrong, 1980, Child and Adolescent
Development, ,1980, Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication America.
5. Elizabeth Harlock B, 1978, Child Growth and Development, 5th edition, Tata
McGraw-Hill Publication Company Limited New Delhi.
6. Hurlock Elizabeth B, 2004, Child Development, 6th edition, 11th reprint, Tata
McGraw–Hill Publication Company Limited New Delhi.
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Maternal and Child Health

Course No. CD-102 Credit: 4

1. Introduction to mother and child health:

Health, disease, role of physician, food hygiene, food poisoning, effects of
pollution-air, water and sound pollution, occupational hazard.
2. Pregnancy:
Sign, symptoms and diagnosis, complications of pregnancy, high risk pregnancy.
3. Antenatal care:
Antenatal visit, antenatal advice and environmental effects-diet, drug, alcohol and
nicotine, radiation, maternal disease, age of mother, chemicals, Rh factors,
psychological factors, specific health protection, mental preparation, family
planning, paediatric component.
4. Intra natal care:
Types and stages of delivery, domiciliary care, institutional care, rooming-in.
5. Postnatal care:
Care of the mother, care of the neonate- immediate care, APGAR score, breast
feeding, complications of postnatal period.
6. Motherhood:
Safe and unsafe motherhood, maternal mortality.
7. Child health problems:
Low birth weight, birth asphyxia-management of the complications; factors
effecting infant mortality- biological, economic, cultural and social factors.

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8. Common diseases:
a) Jaundice, diarrhoea, tetanus, poliomyelitis, measles, hepatitis B and hepatitis
C, acute respiratory infection (ARI)- pneumonia, diphtheria, whooping cough,
tuberculosis, b) EPI in Bangladesh.
9. Primary health care:
Community clinic, Health and Family Welfare Centre (H&FWC), Upazilla
Health Complex (UHC).

Recommended Books:
1. Park. K., 2011, Textbook of Preventive and Social Medicine, M/S Banrsidas
Bhanot, India.
2. Campbell Stuart & Less Christoph, 2000, Obstetrics by Ten Teachers, ELST
with Arnold, London.
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Practical I
Course No. CD-103 Credit: 2

1. Make a developmental milestone chart on the age of first two years (physical,
cognitive, language, social and emotional).
2. Observation of all round development of a infant by using developmental
screening tools.
3. Make a guidebook focused on intellectual and cognitive development of an infant:
a) home environment,
b) selection of toys,
c)spending quality times with care givers/ parents (joint play, reciting rhymes,
singing songs and counting).
4. Prepare a power point presentation on any topic of CD-101 and CD-102.

Practical II
Course No. CD-104 Credit: 2

1. Make a report including the activities on a Community Clinic/ H& FWC/ UHC or
reports on a “Mother and Child Health Center’ (Government and Non-
Government).
Or,
Visit and make reports on the activities of Govt. and Non-Govt. organizations
about Mother and Child Health.
2. Visit at least 3 EPI centers in hospitals, clinics, NGOs and outreach centers
(ORC) and prepare a short summary of their activities.
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Make in-depth interview from a literate and less literate mother (who has a child
within the age one year) about the awareness of EPI activity. (EPI schedule, EPI
center, responsibility, Expectation and weakness).
3. Make a case study report on the knowledge about antenatal, intra-natal and post-
natal care from a pregnant mother, a mother who has a child within the age two
year and an adolescent girl from rural area or low-income people.
4. Prepare a presentation by an album or poster on neonatal health in Bangladesh
from the recent Information such as newspaper, internet, journal, document and
hospital report etc.

Viva-voce
Course No. CD-105 Credit: 2

Extra Departmental Courses

Food and Nutrition

Course No. HE- 151 Credit: 3

1. Introduction to food and nutrition:

Basic concept of food and nutrition, relation of food and nutrition to health.
2. Classification of foods:
Classification of foods according to function- energy yielding, body building
and protective foods, nutritive value of common food stuffs.
3. Nutrients:
Classification of nutrients, carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals-
their chemical nature, functions, food sources and requirements.
4. Planning of balanced diets:
Principles of meal planning for different age groups and physiological
conditions- infancy, childhood, adult, old age, pregnancy and lactation.
5. Food selection and food preparation:
Different methods of cooking, effects of cooking on nutritive value of foods,
selection, preparation and storage of food- milk and milk products, meat, fish,
vegetables and cereals.
6. Food preservation:
Definition and importance of food preservation, methods of food preservation-
drying, freezing and preservation by oil, sugar, salt, vinegar.
7. Therapeutic nutrition:
Therapeutic diets, dietary management in fever, constipation, diarrhoea, liver
disease, heart disease, diabetes.
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8. Nutritional problems of Bangladesh:
Malnutrition- etiology of PEM, IDD, micronutrients and their remedies.

Practical:
1. Planning one-day balanced diet for a family and it’s cost calculation.
2. Preparation of food using basic cooking methods- Boiling, Baking, Steaming,
Frying ,Grilling.
3. Planning, preparation and serving of nutritious school tiffin for school going
children.
4. Food preservation: jam, jelly, marmalade, pickles and sauce.

Recommended Books:
1. Ahmed Professor Shaheen,2021, Food Science and Nutrition, 1st Edition, Ideal
Books Dhaka.
2. A. Joshi Shubhangini, 2015, Nutrition and dietetics, 4th edition, MC Graw Hill
India.
3. Dr. M. Swaminathan, 2014, Advanced Text-Book on Food & Nutrition, vol-I
and vol-II, 2nd Edition: Second Reprint,.
4. Shakuntala Manay, M Shadaksharaswamy, 2008, Food Facts & Principals, 3rd
edition, New age international publishers.
5. Kavitha Sudheer, 2018, A Textbook Of Nutrition For First Year B.Sc Students,
Revised and updated edition, Florence Publishers.

Resource Management and Entrepreneurship

Course No. HE 152 Credits: 3

1. Philosophy and purpose of resource management:

Meaning of resource management, concept and classification of resources,
characteristics of resources, principles of using resources, importance of
resource management, obstacles to the improvement of management.
2. Functions of management:
Planning, organizing, controlling, evaluating.
3. Decision making and Motivational factors :
Meaning and kinds of decision, habitual versus rational group versus
individual decision, developing decision making ability, steps, goal, value and
standard.
4. Time, energy and money management:
Goals of time management, process of managing time, evaluation of common
work method, fatigue work simplification, types of income and ways to
increase income, family budgeting and account keeping, savings and
investment.
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5. House plan and interior design:
Selecting site and making plan for house, home furnishing - knowing, buying
and arranging furniture.
6. Introduction to Entrepreneurship:
Meaning of entrepreneur and entrepreneurship, nature and importance of
entrepreneurs, characteristics of entrepreneurship, functions of
entrepreneurship and factors determining the growth of entrepreneurship,
types of entrepreneurship.
7. The entrepreneurial decision process:
Steps of decision making process, ethics and social responsibilities of
entrepreneurship, qualities of successful entrepreneur.
8. Women Entrepreneurship:
Problems of women entrepreneurs and how to develop Women
Entrepreneurship.

Practical:
1. Managing budget: Preparing a one month budget for a middle class family,
preparing a budget for a college student.
2. House plan and furniture lay out: Drawing a house plan for a middleclass family
with 5 family members, Drawing furniture lay out using graph paper for bed
room, living room and kitchen.
3. Specifying the business and primary activities, selection of a product or service,
site selection, feasibility study of a business, prepare of a business plan.
Recommended Books:
1. Gross, Erma; Crandall, Elizabeth, 1995, Management for Modern Families,
Kalyani Publishers, India.
2. Nickel, Paulina; Dorsey, Jean Mouir, 2005, Management in Family Life, Asia
Printograph, Shahdara, Delhi.
3. Batra Sonia, Mehra Preeti, 2005, Family Resource Management. Asia
Printograph, Shahdara, Delhi.
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 Basic Art and Crafts
Course No. HE-154 Credit: 3

1. Introduction:
Concept, classification, characteristics and importance of art.
2. History of art:
Primitive art, Egyptian art, Mesopotamian art, art of Indus valley civilization
(Mohenjodaro, Harappa).
3. Elements and principles:
a. Study of art elements
b. Study of art principles
c. Relation of art elements and principles to different aspects of life.
4. Traditional crafts of Bangladesh:
a. Indigenous materials.
b. Traditional crafts.
5. Cultural heritage and folk art of Bangladesh:
Folk literature, folk game, folk festival, folk song and dance.
6. Historical places of Bangladesh:
Ahsan manzil, Lalbagh fort, Maynamati, Mahasthangarh,
Shat gombuz mosque (the sixty dome mosque).
7. Life and artwork of famous artists of Bangladesh:
Zainul Abedin, Kamrul Hasan, S. M. Sultan, Rashid Choudhury, Novera Ahmed,
Safiuddin Ahmed.
8. Textile decoration:
Block, batik, tie and dye, stitchery, screen print.
9. Recreational art and craft:
Collage, paper craft (card, toys, bags, paper mash), flower arrangement.
10. Development of art and its Economic aspects:
a. Identifying the problems and solutions for the development of art in
Bangladesh.
b. Art as a significant factor in economic development.

Practical:
1. Three projects should be submitted by using different art media and
materials:
a. Block print on cotton fabric by using wooden and natural block.
b. Tie-dye on fabric by using vat dyes.
c. Batik print on fabric.
d. Stitchery: Running stitch, back stitch, cross stitch, buttonhole stitch, chain stitch,
french knot stitch, satin stitch, feather stitch, lazy daisy stitch, herringbone stitch.
e. Collage on canvas using paper, cloth, color, natural and artificial materials.
f. Flower arrangement: Ikebana, European style.

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Recommended Books:
1. Ray, Faulkner, 1969, Art today, Publisher: Holt Rinehart & Winston,
2. Goldstein Harriet Irene, 1925, Art in everyday life, Publisher: The Macmillan
Company,
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8. mvËvi W: Avãym, 2012, evsjv‡`‡ki wkí I wkíx, AvRgvBj cvewj‡KkÝ,
9. mvËvi W. Avãym, 1989, wk‡íi DcKiY I e¨envi c×wZ,
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15. Kindersley Dorling, DK,. 2015, paper craft,
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Clothing and Textile

Course No: HE-155 Credit: 3

1. Introduction to Clothing and Textile:

Basic concept, textile, clothing, interrelation between clothing and textile.
2. Textile fiber:
Definition, properties, classification with examples, difference between natural
and manmade fiber.
3. Fiber to yarn:
Concept, classification and basic performance, characteristics, preparation of
fiber to yarn, end uses of cotton, flax, wool, silk and nylon yarn.
4. Yarn to fabric:
Definition, classification of yarn, classification and different parts of loom,
motion of loom, basic of weaving.
5. Clothing:
Needs for clothing, economic, social, psychological and health factors
involving in clothing, clothing consumption at different stages of family life
cycle, considering factor of clothing selection for the family members.
6. Wardrobe planning:
Definition, objects, wardrobe planning with special emphasis on considering
factors.

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7. Clothing and personality:
Definition, elements, classification, effect of clothes on personality
development, creating attractive personality through principles of art.
8. Clothing budget:
Definition, types, objectives, advantages and disadvantages, characteristics,
clothing allowances for the family, steps in making a clothing budget, factors
affecting clothing budget.
9. Decision making of clothing:
Introduction, how to make clothing decision, factors affecting clothing
decision, steps of decision making.
10. Clothing for children:
Special consideration for fabric, color, design and texture, design for the
children cloth safety measure, functional and help garments.
11. General principles for clothing construction:
Steps of dress making, removal of dress defects, identification of sewing
defects and removal process.
12. Care and washing of clothing:
Needs for care of clothing, daily, weekly and seasonal care.
13. Care label:
Definition, objectives, types, care label code- washing, bleaching, ironing, dry
cleaning, drying condition, good label for clothing

Practical:
1. Study of anthropometrical measurement for human body (to identify the
measuring points and preparing one`s own measurement sheet).
2. Drafting block pattern by taking accurate measurements and consideration
correct drafting procedure construction any two of own garments.

Recommended Books:
1. M A Kashem, 2011, Garments and Technology, 5th edition, Gronthoneer
publications.
2. Rahman Md. Moshiur, Textile Raw Materials, 3rd edition, 2009, Brothers
Publications.
3. ববগম অধ্যাপক হাসিনা আরা, ২০১৭, বস্ত্র ও বপাশাক সশল্প, প্রকাশনায় লাইফ পাবসলশািস
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