Utah State University Adele and Dale Young Child Development Laboratory records, circa 1940-2010

The College of Family Life, and its predecessors, Home Economics and Domestic Science, were among the original disciplines offered when the Utah Agricultural College opened in 1890. By 1913, the school was home to the Departments of Food and Dietetics, of Home Construction and Sanitation, and of Domestic Arts. The school would eventually offer one of the first courses in the United States on the nutrition, education, physiology, and psychology of early childhood development, also called "mothercraft". The success of the "mothercraft" courses eventually led to the creation of the Department of Child Development and Parental Education and the Child Development Lab in 1931. Known now as the Adele and Dale Young Child Development lab, the Child Development Lab operates under the Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services and continues to provide childcare services and research and training opportunities for students.