College of Community Science, Saifabad

The B.Sc. (Hons.) Community Science (formerly known as B.Sc. (Hons.) Home Science) is a four-year professional degree program. The first three years comprise common basic and core courses along with skill enhancement modules, providing a strong foundation across all disciplines. In the final year (7th semester), students will choose a specialization in one of the five departments through elective courses. The last semester (8th) is dedicated to the Student READY Programme, which includes Rural Awareness Work Experience (RAWE), experiential learning, internship or a special project within the chosen department.

Vision

The vision of the college is to enhance quality and excellence in the teaching–learning process, strengthen research, and develop skilled human resources in the fields of nutrition and dietetics, food science, consumer education, interior design and ergonomics, textiles, apparel and fashion design, child development, child and family counselling, mass communication, and journalism.

Mission

The mission of the faculty is to improve the standard of living of individuals in general, and rural families in particular, through teaching, research, and extension activities. The primary focus is on empowering women and the girl child in both rural and urban households through self-employment, enabling them to become better resource managers and contribute to rural development. The mission is translated into action through the following objectives.

Objectives

• To strengthen skills and potentials of students through scientific principles, knowledge and experience acquired for optimum living.
• To develop manpower for end users 
• To foster development of students towards innovative research to augment the quality of life of family, community and industry in the changing and challenging life scenario.
• To enable development of entrepreneurial skills at various levels.
• To instil appreciation for rural life, its problems and channel relevant mechanisms for progress.

The five departments under the Faculty of Community Science are:

1. Foods and Nutrition
2. Human Development and Family Studies
3. Apparel Design and Textiles
4. Resource Management and Consumer Sciences
5. Extension Education and Communication Management

Upon successful completion of the program, students are awarded the B.Sc. (Hons.) Community Science degree. Graduates are eligible to pursue postgraduate (PG) and doctoral (Ph.D.) studies with specializations in any of the five core disciplines offered by the faculty.

So far 3250 undergraduates, 1051MSc students, 145 PhD students and one Post Doctoral student have passed out from this College.

Implementation of VI Deans Syllabus in Community Science (from Academic Year 2024-25):

• The College of Community Science, PJTAU, adopted VI Deans syllabus as per National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 guidelines.
• The re-structured curriculum emphasises greatly on Skill Enhancement Courses.

Objective of the Restructured Curriculum (B.Sc. (Hons.) Community Science):

• To strengthen critical thinking, creativity, communication, and collaboration.
• To promote a holistic and flexible learning experience.

Associate Dean

Overview of the Undergraduate Program

Student READY (Rural Entrepreneurship Awareness Development Yojana) programme in final year (8th Semester) includes, Rural Awareness Work Experience (RAWE) in villages, experiential learning, and internship/in-plant training in reputed institutions were being offered as a unique practical oriented professional course. The brief information about components of student READY Programme is as follows

RAWE

The Rural Awareness Work Experience (RAWE) helps the students primarily to understand the rural situations, status of homestead / agricultural technologies adopted by rural families, prioritize their problems and to develop skills and attitude of working with farm families for overall development in rural area.

Experiential Learning Programme

The motto of the Experiential Learning Programme in agriculture universities is to “Earn while Doing”. This approach emphasizes hands-on, practical experience as a key component of learning, allowing students to apply theoretical knowledge in real-world agricultural settings. College of Community Science has 4 established AELP units as given below.

• Health millet biscuits under Millet Processing and Incubation centre (MPIC).
• Value added textiles & Apparel, Eco Products including Eco Paints (EP), Ganesh Idol Painting under Natural Dye Processing and Incubation Centre (NDPIC).
• Development of Interior Decoration Accessories and Furnishings using Floral materials and other handicrafts under Floral Art Production Unit.
• Development of instructional material using photo editing software like Adobe Photoshop, CANVA and Adobe-in-design under Knowledge Material Production Unit.

Internship/Inplant Training

The programme provides an opportunity to develop insight into the practical application of academic knowledge, serves as the essential transition between formal education and professional practice. The internship is proposed to assist the students’ in obtaining a broad range of quality professional experience, aids in preparing and developing potentially employable graduates ready to serve the industry. The programme helps the students to develop their personality and capacity to adapt to, and handle, challenging situations in the real business world. Through the internship program, the students should be able to acquire communications skills, interpersonal skills, technical skills, teamwork skills, management skills and problem solving skills.

Infrastructure Facilities

College is having good infrastructure with 14 class rooms, 5 seminar halls, 29 well equipped laboratories, good library with 15000+ books, playground, gym, 2 examination halls, one indoor auditorium and one outdoor auditorium, one hostel with two buildings with a capacity of 120 inmates, part time medical doctor availability for students and staff, drinking water facility etc.

Apart from above, College has two incubation centres and one training centre as given below:

Centre for Advanced Faculty Training (CAFT)

The Centre of Advanced Faculty Training (CAFT)–Home Science at PJTSAU, Hyderabad, is the only centre in India dedicated in providing advanced knowledge and technical training in Home Science to faculty members of SAUs and ICAR institutions. 

Natural Dye Processing and Incubation Centre (NDPIC)

Department of Apparel & Textiles, College of Community Science, PJTAU had established Natural Dye Processing and Incubation Center (NDPIC) with financial support from Telangana Pollution Control Board, Government of Telangana in the year 2016. NDPIC is pioneer in commercial production of wider range of GREEN technologies and sustainable products from different natural dye yielding plant sources grown in India. The products include  biodegradable surface paints for Ganesh idols, fried clay products including terracotta, pots for plants, wood and bamboo, paper and mashed pulp products and Eco holi coloured powders.

Millet Processing & Incubation Center (MPIC):

Established in the year 2013 under RKVY for Nutri-Cereal processing and value addition for food and nutritional security of the society. It is focusing on:

• Technology development through reformulation of convenience foods with Nutri-Cereals, up scaling, branding and marketing
• Technology licensing to industries and entrepreneurs, providing incubation facilities

Supporting student research, capacity building to UG/Diploma students, field functionaries, farmers and self-help groups.

Placement Details

The College of Community Science has been nurturing skilled professionals since its inception, with many alumni successfully working in various government sector as scientists, assistant professors, child development project officers, extension officers, supervisors, civil servants and in private organizations  as counsellors, dieticians, journalists, media designers, crèche, preschool, school and college teachers, interior decorators, fashion designers, event managers or establishing their own enterprises like clothing and food boutiques, food manufacturing units, interior design and decoration firms, day care and nursery schools.

Extracurricular Activities

Apart from academic activities, students are actively engaged through out the year in extra curricular activities like Intercollegiate and Inter university sports and cultural meets, rallies, marathons, self-defence classes, various state, national and international day celebrations, NSS activities and camps as and when proposed by Ministry of youth affairs and sports.