Doster Hall

Doster Hall

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Building # 7017 | Abbreviation: DO
College of Human Environmental Sciences

  • Dean’s Office
  • Clothing, Textiles, and Interior Design
  • Human Nutrition
  • Restaurant, Hotel and Meeting Management
  • Student Services
  • Doster Café

College of Human Environmental Sciences

Doster Hall has been home to the College of Human and Environmental Sciences since its construction in 1929.

The building’s first floor houses the HES Office of the Dean, HES Student Services, a meeting room, and a lecture hall. The second floor has offices and classrooms while the third contains a computer lab, classrooms, and sewing rooms.

The lower level of Doster has vending machines, a classroom, offices, and Doster Café, a small eatery that was first run by the HES restaurant management students. The cafeteria is now operated by Bama Dining and serves approximately 6,000 meals each year. (View the Menu)

Doster Hall was named for former dean of education James Jarvis Doster. The department later became the College of Human and Environmental Sciences under Dean Agnes Ellen Harris in 1931.

Information collected from The University of Alabama : a guide to the campus by Robert Oliver Mellown (Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1988), and The University of Alabama, a pictorial history by Suzanne Rau Wolfe (University : University of Alabama Press, c1983).