History
The history of the department can be traced relatively far back in time. However, there has been constant development. We have gone from a school kitchen seminar and specialised school for home economics to training dieticians, nutritionists and home and consumer science teachers with a strong research profile in the field.
Year | Event |
|---|---|
1892 | Uppsala Enskilda Läroverk was founded on the initiative of Professors J. A. Lundell and Adolf Noreen. |
1895 | Uppsala Enskilda Läroverk's school kitchen seminar is given an independent status under the name Fackskolan för huslig ekonomi. |
1961 | Fackskolan för huslig ekonomi is nationalised and renamed The Seminary for Domestic Education. |
1972 | The agricultural teacher education programme is discontinued. |
1977 | The Seminary for Domestic Education becomes a department within Uppsala University with the name Department for the education of childcare teachers, economics teachers, domestic teachers and textile teachers (BEHT) in the 1977 university reform. The head of the department is called prefect instead of the previous rector. |
1978 | The financial management programme is transformed into the Diet and Nutritional Economic programme with two branches, one administrative and one therapeutic. |
1986 | The Childcare Teacher Programme is transferred to the Department of Teacher Education. |
1987/1988 | The new name Department of Domestic Science is introduced |
1988 | The Diet and Nutritional Economic programme programme is named the Dietary Economics and Nutritional Therapy programme with an administrative and a therapeutic branch. |
1988 | The practical-pedagogical training of home economics and textile teachers and thus also the teachers who taught the subjects of methodology and pedagogy are transferred to the Department of Teacher Education. However, the subject programme remains in the Department of Household Sciences. |
1988 | A new primary school teacher training programme is established in which the subjects of childhood education, home economics and textiles are combined. Within the new subject teacher training programme, it was proposed that the subjects of childhood education, nutrition, consumer and housing/environmental education and textiles should be combined with another subject. The childcare teacher programme has been discontinued, while the "household" and "textile" teacher programmes remained. |
| 1989 | One of the department's three divisions, the Division of Nutrition, moved to new premises in the Wallenberg Laboratory in spring 1989. The buildings on Trädgårdsgatan and Slottsgränd were remodelled to house the Department of Administration, Finance and Housing and the Department of Textiles. |
1990 | The 49th and final printed edition of the Home Cookbook is published through the department. The final home economics teachers graduate. |
1991 | Domestic Science becomes a postgraduate subject in the Faculty of Social Sciences. |
1992 | The first doctoral students are admitted in 1992 and the first doctoral defence takes place through Lisbeth Johansson and her thesis Eating Quality of Rainbow Trout. |
1995 | 100th anniversary and Queen Silvia takes part in the celebrations. |
2001 | The department's first chair professor, Christina Fjellström, is installed. |
2007 | Textile Science leaves the department and is incorporated into the Department of Art History. |
2008 | The department changes name to Department of Food Studies, Nutrition and Dietetics. |
2008 | The department moves to premises at the Biomedical Centre |
2009 | The department does not accept commissions for textile crafts from 1 September 2009. |