Connection To Home Economics
In addition to its links to other disciplines, human ecology has a strong historical linkage to the field of home economics through the work of Ellen Swallow Richards, among others. However, as early as the 1960's, a number of universities began to rename "home economics" departments, schools, and colleges as "human ecology" programs. In part, this name change was a response to perceived difficulties with the term "home economics" in a modernizing society, and reflects a recognition of "human ecology" as one of the initial choices for the discipline which was to become "home economics". Current Human Ecology programs include Cornell University College of Human Ecology and the University of Alberta's Department of Human Ecology, among others.
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