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This is a list of academic disciplines. An academic discipline, or field of study, is a branch of knowledge which is taught or researched at the college or university level. Disciplines are defined and recognised by the academic journals in which research is published, and the learned societies and academic departments or faculties to which their practitioners belong.

Fields of study usually have several sub-disciplines or branches, and the distinguishing lines between these are often both arbitrary and ambiguous.

In medieval Europe, there were only four faculties in a university: Theology, Medicine, Jurisprudence and Arts, with the last one having a somewhat lower status. Current-day university disciplines have their roots in the mid- to late-19th century secularization of universities, when the traditional curriculum was supplemented by non-classical languages and literatures, and by science and technology disciplines such as physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering.

In the early 20th century, new disciplines such as education, sociology, and psychology were added. In the 1970s and 1980s, there was an explosion of new disciplines focusing on specific themes, such as media studies, women's studies, and Black studies. Many disciplines designed as preparation for careers and professions, such as nursing, hospitality management, corrections, also emerged in the universities. Finally, the visibility of such interdisciplinary scientific fields as biochemistry and geophysics increased, as their contribution to knowledge became widely recognized.

A "*" denotes a field whose academic status is debated. Note that the area into which some fields should be classified is debated, such as whether anthropology and linguistics are social sciences disciplines or humanities disciplines.

Mathematics and Computer sciences

Visual arts

Architecture, design and applied arts

Architecture and related design

Visual Communication
- Graphic design
- User interface design

Dance studies
Ethnochoreology

History of dance
Performance, somatic practice

Film and Television

Animation

Film

Film criticism

Theatre

Dramaturgy

Professions and Applied sciences

Agriculture and forestry

Textiles

Health sciences

Allied Health Sciences
Medical Sciences
- Anaesthetics
- Cardiology
- Dentistry
  - Dental hygiene and Epidemiology
  - Dental surgery
  - Restorative dentistry and Endodontics
  - Orthodontics
  - Oral and maxillofacial surgery
  - Pedodontics (Pediatric dentistry)
  - Periodontics
  - Prosthodontics
  - Implantology

- Emergency Medicine
- Endocrinology
  - Diabetology
- Epidemiology
- Forensics
- Geriatrics
- Gynaecology
- Hematology
- Internal medicine (General medicine)
- International and Humanitarian Medicine
- Nephrology
- Neurology
- Neurosurgery
- Obstetrics
- Oncology
- Ophthalmology
- Orthopedic surgery
- Otolaryngology
- Pathology

Journalism, media and communication

Law

Library and museum studies

Museology
- Museum administration

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

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