Outline of academic disciplines
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.
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Historical background[edit]
History of academic disciplines – academic disciplines arose from learning institutions as those grew to include specialized faculties or departments
Humanities[edit]
History[edit]
- African history
- American history
- Ancient history
- Australian history
- Asian history
- European history
- Economic history
- Environmental history
- Ancient Greek history (outline)
- Intellectual history
- Latin American history
- Modern history
- Political history
- Pre-Columbian era
- Ancient Roman history (outline)
- Russian history
- Scientific history
- Technological history
- World history
Languages[edit]
Literature[edit]
- Poetry
- Comparative literature
- English literature
- World literature
- History of literature
- Literary theory
- Creative writing
Philosophy[edit]
Professions[edit]
Gastronomy[edit]
Performing arts[edit]
Religion[edit]
Visual arts[edit]
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Applied arts See also: Applied arts
Architecture and design
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Social sciences[edit]
Economics[edit]
- Agricultural economics
- Anarchist economics
- Applied economics
- Behavioural economics
- Bioeconomics
- Complexity economics
- Computational economics
- Consumer economics
- Development economics
- Ecological economics
- Econometrics
- Economic geography
- Economic history
- Economic sociology
- Economic systems
- Energy economics
- Entrepreneurial economics
- Environmental economics
- Evolutionary economics
- Experimental economics
- Feminist economics
- Financial economics
- Financial econometrics
- Green economics
- Growth economics
- Human development theory
- Industrial organization
- Information economics
- Institutional economics
- International economics
- Islamic economics
- Labor economics
- Law and economics
- Macroeconomics
- Managerial economics
- Marxian economics
- Mathematical economics
- Microeconomics
- Monetary economics
- Neuroeconomics
- Participatory economics
- Political economy
- Public finance
- Public economics
- Real estate economics
- Resource economics
- Social choice theory
- Socialist economics
- Socioeconomics
- Transport economics
- Welfare economics
Geography[edit]
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Human geography Main article: Human geography
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Physical geography (also a branch of earth sciences) Main article: Physical geography
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Linguistics[edit]
- Applied linguistics
- Computational linguistics
- Discourse analysis
- English studies
- Etymology
- Grammar
- Historical linguistics
- History of linguistics
- Interlinguistics
- Lexicology
- Linguistic typology
- Morphology (linguistics)
- Natural language processing
- Philology
- Phonetics
- Phonology
- Pragmatics
- Psycholinguistics
- Semantics
- Semiotics (outline)
- Sociolinguistics
- Syntax
- Composition studies
- Rhetoric
- Usage
- Word usage
Political science[edit]
Psychology[edit]
Sociology[edit]
Professions[edit]
Anthropology[edit]
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Business administration[edit]
Communication studies[edit]
Education[edit]
- Comparative education
- Critical pedagogy
- Curriculum and instruction
- Alternative education
- Early childhood education
- Elementary education
- Secondary education
- Higher education
- Mastery learning
- Cooperative learning
- Agricultural education
- Art education
- Bilingual education
- Chemistry education
- Counselor education
- Language education
- Legal education
- Mathematics education
- Medical education
- Military education and training
- Music education
- Nursing education
- Peace education
- Physical education/Sports coaching
- Physics education
- Reading education
- Religious education
- Science education
- Special education
- Sex education
- Sociology of education
- Technology education
- Vocational education
- Educational leadership
- Educational philosophy
- Educational psychology
- Educational technology
- Distance education
Home economics[edit]
Law[edit]
Library and information science[edit]
Military science[edit]
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Public administration[edit]
It is a subfield of political science
Natural sciences[edit]
Biology[edit]
Chemistry[edit]
Earth sciences[edit]
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Physics[edit]
- Acoustics
- Applied physics
- Astrophysics
- Atomic, molecular, and optical physics
- Biophysics (outline)
- Computational physics
- Condensed matter physics
- Cryogenics
- Electromagnetism
- Elementary particle physics
- Experimental physics
- Fluid dynamics
- Geophysics (outline)
- Mathematical physics
- Medical physics
- Mechanics
- Molecular physics
- Newtonian dynamics
- Nuclear physics
- Optics
- Plasma physics
- Quantum physics
- Solid mechanics
- Solid state physics
- Statistical mechanics
- Theoretical physics
- Thermodynamics
- Vehicle dynamics
Space sciences[edit]
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Professions[edit]
Agriculture and agronomy[edit]
Engineering and technology[edit]
Environmental studies[edit]
Medicine and health[edit]
Sports science[edit]
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Formal sciences[edit]
Logic[edit]
Pure mathematics[edit]
- See also: Branches of mathematics and Mathematics Subject Classification
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Professions[edit]
Applied mathematics[edit]
Computer science[edit]
Also a branch of electrical engineering
Systems science[edit]
See also[edit]
- Academia (outline)
- Academic genealogy
- Curriculum
- Multidisciplinary approach
- Interdisciplinarity
- Transdisciplinarity
- Professions
- Classification of Instructional Programs
- Joint Academic Coding System
- List of fields of doctoral studies in the United States
References[edit]
- Abbott, Andrew (2001). Chaos of Disciplines. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-00101-2.
- Oleson, Alexandra; Voss, John (1979). The Organization of knowledge in modern America, 1860-1920. ISBN 0-8018-2108-8.
- US Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences. Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP). National Center for Education Statistics.
External links[edit]
- 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[where?].