Major Field of Study (MFS)

221-266 - Agricultural, Biological, Nutritional, and Food Sciences

249-254 - Food Services, Nutrition, and Other Household Sciences

249 - Homemaker

Program of studies and training related to the preparation of students for employment in home-making agencies. Course content includes topics such as nutrition, home management, accident prevention, caring for children and special groups such as the chronically ill, the terminally ill and the elderly.

• Example Program Names:

  • Domestic Science
  • Home Sciences
  • Homemaker
  • Household Science
  • Housekeeping

250 - Consumer Studies

Study of the nature and the scope of human consumption behaviour and the interactions of business, the consumer and government in the marketplace for products and services in the general areas of clothing, textiles, foods and housing.

• Example Program Names:

  • Consumer Studies
  • Family Consumer Studies
  • Food and Consumer Studies

251 - Clothing and Textiles

Study and training in techniques of production related to the user of fibre, filaments, yarn or cloth in the manufacture of clothing and other fabric materials.

• Example Program Names:

  • Clothing
  • Clothing (and Textiles)
  • Dressmaking
  • Dry Cleaning
  • Fur, Leather and Suede
  • Furrier
  • Home Economics Clothing and Textiles
  • Sewing
  • Tailor (Taylor)
  • Textiles

252 - Nutrition and Dietetics

An interdisciplinary program of studies combining physical sciences, agricultural sciences, biological sciences, health sciences and social sciences designed to give students an understanding of the impact of nutrition on health and its role in disease, metabolic processes, the chemistry of food and the social and behavioural determinants of food selection.

• Example Program Names:

  • Dietary Aid
  • Dietary Service Tech
  • Dietary Tech
  • Dietetics
  • Dietetics and Nutrition
  • Food and Drug Tech
  • Food and Nutrition
  • Food Science Tech
  • Food Tech
  • Human Nutrition
  • Nutrition
  • Nutrition Science
  • Science Nutrition

253 - Food Services and Preparation

Training program designed to give food service personnel a grounding in purchasing, storing, handling and preparing food. Includes commercial and professional cooking, baking, catering, culinary arts, bartending, mixology and quantity cooking.

• Example Program Names:

  • Baker
  • Baker(y)
  • Baking
  • Bartending
  • Cake Decoration
  • Catering
  • Chef
  • Commercial Cook(ing)
  • Cook
  • Cooking
  • Culinary Arts
  • Dining Room Service
  • Food and Beverage
  • Food and Restaurant Services
  • Food Handling
  • Food Preparation
  • Food Service(s) (Tech)
  • Hostess Training
  • Mixology
  • Professional Cook(ing)
  • Short Order Cook
  • Waiter/Waitress (Training)
  • Waitress(ing)

254 - Home Economics

Study of the science and practice of nutrition, food preparation, clothing, housing, consumerism and family development. Specific topics include clothing design and construction, human nutrition, consumer education, family development and household equipment.

• Example Program Names:

  • Home Economics
  • Home-Making
  • Household Economics
  • Science Home Economics