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Caption: Course Catalog - 1898-1899
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HOUSEHOLD ECONOMICS The University offers a group of courses selected from various departments to form a complete scientific basis for planning, decorating, and managing a home. Household sanitation and chemistry of foods will be in charge of a woman especially equipped for such work, who will at the same time correlate the various courses given by the other instructors. The courses are as follows: ARCHITECTURE A special course is offered to students in household economics in house-planning and house decoration. See Architecture 25. BACTERIOLOGY (BOTANY 5) This course extends through the second semester, ten hours a week. Eight to ten weeks are devoted to a general introduction to the science and the methods of laboratory work, the nature and characteristics of bacteria, their kinds and special effects, the preparation of nutrient media, securing and continuing pure cultures, microscopical preparations, etc. After this each student may select a subject or line of subjects for special study and investigation. These may be of direct interest and importance to the housekeeper, and include besides general sanitary matters, such topics as fermentation and putrefactive changes in foods and food substances; beneficial and injurious organisms and their effect in breadmaking, in milk products, etc.; bacteriological examination of water and of air; the preservation of organic substances; cleansing and fumigating clothing, rooms, apparatus, etc.; and the distribution and elimination of disease germs. Required: Chemistry i and Zoology 10.
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