Home economics, home (1) family material life. Such as housing, interior layout, furniture, decoration; Diet and nutrition; Clothing and sewing; Family animal and plant breeding and so on.

② Family spiritual and cultural life. Mainly family education; Ideal sentiment edification; Entertainment, sports, tourism activities, etc.

③ Family interpersonal relationship. Have an internal family relationship; Family external relations, including neighborhood relations, relatives and friends relations, and family members' work units; Love, marriage and so on.

④ Family health care. Health and nursing, family planning and eugenics, sexual life and physical hygiene, food hygiene and other knowledge.

⑤ Other aspects include family safety, including fire prevention, theft prevention, rat prevention, mosquito and fly prevention, electric shock prevention and gas poisoning prevention. As home economics is a new interdisciplinary subject, the graduates of this subject have a wide range of professional choices when applying for a master's degree.

Graduates majoring in home economics can apply for the following majors:

(1) pedagogy;

(2) psychology;

(3) Preschool pedagogy

(4) Sociology (Master of Sociology from College of Humanities, Jilin Agricultural University has a home economics orientation);

(5) management

(6) Education management

(7) Foreign domestic related majors.

The English abbreviation of Master of Home Economics is MSHE, and the English full name is Master of Home Economics. (1) Management talents of family service organizations

(2) Family asset management talents;

(3) Family education professionals;

(4) Family parenting professionals;

(5) Family bookkeeping talents, etc. (1) Children's household products development talents;

(2) Children's toy design, development and marketing talents (1) star hotel catering industry nutrition development and management talents;

(2) Nutrition evaluation and guidance personnel of characteristic catering industry. (1) elderly nursing guidance and management talents;

(2) Talents for designing and developing nutrition catering for the elderly;

(3) Psychological counseling talents for the elderly; (1) humanized design and planning of family room;

(2) Market research, humanized design, room decoration and maintenance of household appliances;

(3) furniture market survey, design and marketing;

(4) Dining utensils design, market research and marketing. (1) Fashion design talents;

(2) Clothing management and guidance talents;

(3) Children's wear design and marketing talents. (1) Pre-school education management talents of various educational administrative institutions at all levels;

(2) administrators of preschool education institutions;

(3) Teachers of preschool institutions, etc. To lay a solid foundation for students to continue studying for master's and doctoral degrees in pedagogy, psychology, preschool pedagogy, educational management, sociology, etc., and create good conditions to provide advanced courses (excluding credits and formal hours).

After the reform and opening up, Jilin Agricultural University took the lead in setting up junior college students in home economics in the 1990s, and opened and enrolled undergraduate students in home economics in 2003. Home Economics belongs to the College of Humanities, with a four-year academic system. The first batch of students graduated in 2007. And from 2008, it began to recruit graduate students majoring in home economics. After that, Tianjin Normal University opened and enrolled the undergraduate course of domestic economics in 2004, which was the second-class undergraduate course in China, with a four-year academic system. The first batch of 33 students graduated in 2008. School of Education, Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai Branch has now set up home economics according to the needs of the market.