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 by the university faculties and learned societies to which he or she belongs and the academic journals in which he or she publishes research.
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, for example whether anthropology and linguistics are disciplines of the social sciences or of the humanities.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to academic disciplines.
Video Outline of academic disciplines
Humanities
Arts
Performing arts
Visual arts
History
Languages and literature
Philosophy
Theology
- Biblical studies
- Religious studies
- Biblical Hebrew, Biblical Greek, Aramaic
- Buddhist theology
- Christian theology
- Anglican theology
- Baptist theology
- Catholic theology
- Eastern Orthodox theology
- Protestant theology
- Hindu theology
- Jewish theology
- Muslim theology
Maps Outline of academic disciplines
Social sciences
Anthropology
- Biological anthropology
- Linguistic anthropology
- Cultural Anthropology
- Social Anthropology
Economics
Human geography
- Human geography
- Behavioral geography
- Cognitive geography
- Cultural geography
- Development geography
- Economic geography
- Health geography
- Historical geography
- Language geography
- Marketing geography
- Military geography
- Political geography
- Population geography
- Religion geography
- Social geography
- Strategic geography
- Time geography
- Tourism geography
- Transport geography
- Urban geography
Law
Political science
Psychology
Sociology
Natural sciences
Biology
Chemistry
Earth sciences
- Edaphology
- Environmental chemistry
- Environmental science
- Gemology
- Geochemistry
- Geodesy
- Physical geography (outline)
- Atmospheric science / Meteorology (outline)
- Biogeography / Phytogeography
- Climatology / Paleoclimatology / Palaeogeography
- Coastal geography / Oceanography
- Edaphology / Pedology or Soil science
- Geobiology
- Geology (outline) (Geomorphology, Mineralogy, Petrology, Sedimentology, Speleology, Tectonics, Volcanology)
- Geostatistics
- Glaciology
- Hydrology (outline)/ Limnology / Hydrogeology
- Landscape ecology
- Quaternary science
- Geophysics (outline)
- Paleontology
- Paleobiology
- Paleoecology
Space sciences
- Astrobiology
- Astronomy (outline)
- Observational astronomy
- Gamma ray astronomy
- Infrared astronomy
- Microwave astronomy
- Optical astronomy
- Radio astronomy
- UV astronomy
- X-ray astronomy
- Observational astronomy
- Astrophysics
- Gravitational astronomy
- Black holes
- Gravitational astronomy
- Interstellar medium
- Numerical simulations
- Astrophysical plasma
- Galaxy formation and evolution
- High-energy astrophysics
- Hydrodynamics
- Magnetohydrodynamics
- Star formation
- Physical cosmology
- Stellar astrophysics
- Helioseismology
- Stellar evolution
- Stellar nucleosynthesis
- Planetary science
Physics
Formal sciences
Computer Science
Also a branch of electrical engineering
Mathematics
Pure mathematics
Applied mathematics
Statistics
- Astrostatistics
- Biostatistics
Applied sciences
Engineering and technology
Medicine and health
See also
- 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
- List of academic fields
References
- 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
- 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.
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