The school offers undergraduate majors in Consumer Behavior & Marketplace Studies; Community & Nonprofit Leadership; Human Development & Family Studies; Interior Architecture; Personal Finance; Textiles & Fashion Design.
One outreach effort was the creation of the Dorothy Roberts Nursery School in response to a request from area mothers in 1926.
The department also added and developed new and more focused majors such as foods and nutrition, textiles, applied bacteriology, related art, and home economics journalism.
After taking over from Abby Marlett in 1939, Frances Zuill worked to further develop the department, so that it became the School of Home Economics within the College of Agriculture.
The Badger Care project, a collaborative to implement the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) for Wisconsin, develops and evaluates more effective means to enroll children from families of modest means in this essential health insurance program.