Outline of academic disciplines
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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to academic disciplines:
An academic discipline or field of study is a branch of knowledge that is taught and researched as part of higher education. A scholar's discipline is commonly defined and recognized by the university faculties and learned societies to which he or she belongs and the academic journals in which he or she publishes research. However, no formal criteria exist for defining an academic discipline.
Disciplines vary between well-established ones that exist in almost all universities and have well-defined rosters of journals and conferences and nascent ones supported by only a few universities and publications. A discipline may have branches, and these are often called sub-disciplines.
There is no consensus on how some academic disciplines should be classified (e.g., whether anthropology and linguistics are disciplines of social sciences or fields within the humanities). More generally, the proper criteria for organizing knowledge into disciplines are also open to debate.
Contents
- 1 Historical background
- 2 Humanities
- 3 Social sciences
- 4 Natural sciences
- 5 Formal sciences
- 6 Professions
- 6.1 Agriculture
- 6.2 Architecture and design
- 6.3 Business
- 6.4 Divinity
- 6.5 Education
- 6.6 Engineering and technology
- 6.7 Environmental studies and forestry
- 6.8 Family and consumer science
- 6.9 Human physical performance and recreation
- 6.10 Journalism, media studies and communication
- 6.11 Law
- 6.12 Library and museum studies
- 6.13 Medicine
- 6.14 Military sciences
- 6.15 Public administration
- 6.16 Social work
- 6.17 Transportation
- 7 See also
- 8 Notes
- 9 References
- 10 External links
Historical background
History of academic disciplines – academic disciplines arose from learning institutions as those grew to include specialized faculties or departments
Humanities
Human history
Linguistics
Literature
- Literary theory
- Creative writing
- Creative nonfiction
- Fiction writing (outline)
- Non-fiction writing
- Literary journalism
- Poetry composition
- Screenwriting
- Playwrighting
Arts
Performing arts
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Visual arts |
Applied arts
Other arts |
Philosophy
Religion
Social sciences
Anthropology
Ethnic and cultural studies
- Cultural studies
- Ethnic studies
- Ethnology
- Culturology
- Cross-cultural studies
- White studies
- Black studies
Archaeology
- Classical archaeology
- Egyptology
- Architectural analytics
- Experimental archaeology
- Maritime archaeology
- Near Eastern archaeology
- Paleoanthropology
- Prehistoric archaeology
Area studies
- African studies
- American studies
- Asian studies
- Central Asian studies
- East Asian studies
- Indology (Indian studies)
- Iranian studies
- Japanology (Japanese studies)
- Korean studies
- Pakistan studies
- Sindhology
- Sinology (outline) (Chinese studies)
- Southeast Asian studies
- European studies
- Australian studies
- Middle East studies
- Russian and Eastern European studies
Economics
Gender and sexuality studies
Geography
Political science
Psychology
Sociology
Natural sciences
Biology
- See also Biology (outline), Branches of life sciences
Chemistry
- See also Branches of chemistry
Physics
- See also Branches of physics
Earth sciences
- See also Branches of earth sciences
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Space sciences
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Formal sciences
Mathematics
Applied Mathematics
Pure Mathematics
- See also Branches of mathematics and AMS Mathematics Subject Classification
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Computer sciences
Also a branch of electrical engineering
Logic
Statistics
Systems science
Professions
Agriculture
Architecture and design
Business
Divinity
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Education
Engineering and technology
Environmental studies and forestry
Family and consumer science
Human physical performance and recreation
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Journalism, media studies and communication
Law
Library and museum studies
Medicine
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Military sciences
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Public administration
- Corrections
- Conservation biology
- Criminal justice (outline)
- Emergency management
- Fire safety (Structural fire protection)
- Fire ecology (Wildland fire management)
- Governmental affairs
- International affairs
- Peace and conflict studies
- Police science
- Policy studies
- Public administration
Public policy
- Agricultural policy
- Commercial policy
- Cultural policy
- Domestic policy
- Drug policy
- Economic policy
- Education policy
- Energy policy
- Environmental policy
- Food policy
- Foreign policy
- Health policy
- Housing policy
- Immigration policy
- Knowledge policy
- Language policy
- Military policy
- Science policy
- Social policy
- Public policy by country
Social work
- Child welfare
- Community practice
- Human Services
- Corrections
- Gerontology
- Medical social work
- Mental health
- School social work
Transportation
- Highway safety
- Infographics
- Intermodal transportation studies
- Marine transportation
- Operations research
- Mass transit
See also
- Academia (outline)
- Academic genealogy
- Curriculum
- Interdisciplinarity
- Transdisciplinarity
- Classification of Instructional Programs
- Joint Academic Coding System
- List of fields of doctoral studies in the United States
Notes
References
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- US Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences. Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP). National Center for Education Statistics.
External links
- Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP 2000): Developed by the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics to provide a taxonomic scheme that will support the accurate tracking, assessment, and reporting of fields of study and program completions activity.
- Complete JACS (Joint Academic Classification of Subjects) from Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) in the United Kingdom
- Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC 2008) (web-page) Chapter 3 and Appendix 1: Fields of research classification.
- Fields of Knowledge, a zoomable map allowing the academic disciplines and sub-disciplines in this article be visualised.
- Online reference materials for any kind of specific academic disciplines.
