Department of Home Science And Management

Prof. Gabriel O. Wordu

Head of Department

Home Science And Management

The B.Sc in Home Science and Management programme offers unique training opportunities for students desiring to work in the hospitality industry, the programme leads to the award of B.Sc in Home Science and Management with options in, Catering and Hotel Management and Nutrition and dietetics.

PROFILE OF THE HOD

Name – Prof. Gabriel O. Wordu
Date of Birth – 16^th November, 1961
Place of Birth – Omagwa Town

QUALIFICATIONS

B.Sc – Florida Memorial College 1978
M.Sc – Howard University 1982
Ph.D – University of Maryland 1985

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

American Dietetic Association
Nutrition Education Society
American Medical Association
American Public Health Association
American Society for the Animal Science

I have published over 70 papers Locally and International.

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

Nutritional Biochemistry
Human Nutrition

COURSES TAUGHT

HSM 251 – Introduction to Human Nutrition
HSM 367 – Diet Therapy & Hospital Practice
FST 317 – Food Chemistry
HSM 455 – Clinical Nutrition & Diet Therapy I
HSM 457 – Community Nutrition
HSM 451 – International Nutrition
HSM 453 – Nutritional Planning & Policy
HSM 452 – Advances in Human Nutrition
HSM 454 – Public Health Nutrition
HSM 412 – Nutritional Biochemistry

Staff list in the Department

Name	AREA OF SPECIALIZATION	RANK	Email
Prof. Gabriel O. Wordu	Nutritional Biochemistry/Human Nutrition	Professor/HOD	wordu.gabriel@ust.edu.ng
Dr. Deedam Nua Janet	Food Product Development/Home & Catering Management	Senior Lecturer	deedam.nua@ust.edu.ng
Dr. Ellen A. Beleya	Food and Nutrition	Senior Lecturer	ellen.beleya.@ust.edu.ng
Dr. Wachukwu-Chikodi Happiness Ihuoma	Home Economics (Hospitality and Tourism Management)	Lecturer I	happiness.wachukwu-chikodi@ust.edu.ng
Dr. China, M.A.H.	Home Management	Lecturer I	mercy.china@ust.edu.ng
Dr. Juliet Ezenekwe Allen	Hospitality Management & Food and Nutrition	Lecturer I	juliet.allen@ust.edu.ng`
Dr. Catherine Achese Orisa (RDN)	Nutrition and Dietetics/Community and Public Health	Lecturer I	catherine.orisa@ust.edu.ng
Dr. Amadi, Gift Amukeru	Child and Family Development	Lecturer I	gift.amadi@ust.edu.ng
Amuchie Elizabeth		Principal Executive Officer	amuchie.elizabeth@ust.edu.ng
Ihunwo, Confidence Nyekpunwo		Assistant Registrar	confi4mii@gmail.com
Iwedi Nzebunka		Principal Executive Officer	liffstamy@yahoo.com
Woruka, Augustine Egbelu		Technologist I	augustineworuka@yahoo.com
Barigboma Juliet Kokpan		Technologist I	gberegbara@gamil.com
Izioma Destiny Anthony		Technologist I	destinyanthony773@gmail.com
Ugbari Precious Uloma		Administrative Officer I	precious.ugbari@gmail.com

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Head of Department: The head of Department ( H.O.D) is the Chief executive Administrative officer of the Department. He directs the affairs of the department by coordinating and supervising the academic, technologists and non-teaching staff. He ensures that staff carries out their duties diligently and report same to the Vice-Chancellor through the Dean.
Lecturers: They are directly in charge of teaching, research and publishing of academic resources. Lecturers apart from the above carry out other duties as may be assigned by the HOD from time to time and assess students’ growth.

Secretary: He/she is responsible for the secretariat duties of the department, he/she coordinate and handle confidential documents and report to the head of department. The secretary of the department is a member of both postgraduate/departmental boards.
Undergraduate examination Officer: Ensure safe custody of all undergraduate exams, results, He/she receive, produce and upload results and report directly to the head of department.
SIWES Coordinator: organizes seminar and orientation for prospective SIWES students, monitors, posting and scores log books as well as collate result

STRUCTURE OF THE UNIT

The Department has a Head of Department who oversees both the teaching and non-teaching staff. The administrative staff is made up of a confidential secretary, who is directly responsible to the Head of Department, Assistant Secretary, Administrative Staff and Messenger. The third group of staff who also directly report to the Head of Department are made up as follows: Technologist, Technicians and Laboratory Assistant. The Technologist are the Heads of the units. The whole arrangement is represented in the organisational chart below.

Head Of Department

Academic Staff

Non-Academic Staff

Professors

Chief Technologist

Departmental Secretary

Readers

Technologist

Admin Officers

Clerical Officers

Senior Lecturers

Assistant Lecturer

Lecturer I

Lecturer II

PHILOSOPHY OF THE PROGRAMMES

The current changes in the environment necessitate the demand for skilled manpower in Home Science and Management in the supervision and the management of the hospitality industry. In addition, nutritionists and dietitians are capable of formulating and planning diets for all groups of people in the society.

OBJECTIVE

The degree of Bachelor of Science in Home Science and Management is designed to prepare students to:

Establish and operate small to large scale catering organizations and hotels
Function as nutritionists / dietitians capable of formulating and planning diets for all groups of people in hospitals, schools, catering establishment, food industry, ministries and social welfare agencies.
Understand the chemical complexities of foods and their vulnerability to spoilages as to ensure the effective preservation of their nutritive qualities during food preparation.
Function in an integrated rural development endeavor designed to extend the benefit of approved nutritional practices to rural communities.
Function as high level technical staff in the hotel and catering organizations nutrition department in the department in hospitals, social welfare agencies, ministries, oil rig, off-shore and aviation industries.
Function as an effective house-keepers in the management of the home, office and hotels.