The Historic College of Family Life Department of Human Environments records include syllabi, office files, reports, and assorted files created by professors, staff, and students. The Department included courses in apparel and textiles, family and consumer sciences, human environments, and interior design. This collection only includes materials created up through the early 2000s, when the College of Family was closed, and the Department of Human Environments and its programs were moved into the College of Agriculture and Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. Future acquisitions from the Department of Human Environments post 2002 will be collected under the following new collection number,
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. The Department of Domestic Arts was one of the first established departments at the institution, eventually becoming the School of Domestic Sciences and Arts in 1903. By 1913, the college was home to the Departments of Food and Dietetics, of Home Construction and Sanitation, and of Domestic Arts. When the School of Home Economics became the College of Family Life in 1957, the Department of Human Environments was originally split into the three departments of Clothing, Textiles, and Related Arts, Household Administration, and Home Economics Education. Between the 1960s and early 1970s, the three departments merged into the Department of Home Economics and Consumer Education. The department's name was changed to Human Environments in the mid-90s. Following the closure of the College of Family Life in the early 2000s, the Department of Human Environments and its programs were moved into the College of Agriculture and Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences.
This collection is arranged into two series,
Access to some files is restricted. Not available through interlibrary loan.
It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances.
Permission to publish material from the Historic College of Family Life Department of Human Environments records must be obtained from the
Utah State University Historic College of Family Life records,
Includes files from the Household Economics and Management  and Home Economics and Consumer Education departments
Held at the Women's building at the Agricultural College of Utah.
Do not access without permission of Archivist. Some files are restricted due to FERPA laws.
Includes syllabi, evaluations, and assorted course materials
Inscription on front cover "Zina Tidwell".