academic discipline
Branch of knowledge
An academic discipline is a branch of knowledge with its own methods, concepts, and standards—history, physics, sociology, economics.
Universities organize departments around disciplines, and scholars identify professionally with them: She trained in the discipline of anthropology.
Interdisciplinary work crosses these boundaries; multidisciplinary work draws from several without fully integrating them.
- subfieldSpecialized branch within discipline
- subdisciplineSpecialized branch within field
- specializationConcentrated expertise in one field
- degreeUnit of measurement
- universityHigher education institution
area of expertise · canon · field of study · research methodology · scholarship · education · anthropology · peer review · epistemology · body of knowledge · sociology · study · branch · hard sciences · soft sciences · scholarly tradition · archaeology · philosophy
academic disciplinehobby
Recreational leisure activity
dabbling · idle speculation · dilettantism · common sense · intuition
academic disciplinetrade
Exchange of commodities
craft · vocation · vocational training · apprenticeship · on-the-job training
academic disciplinefolk wisdom
Traditional communal knowledge
oral tradition · street smarts · tacit knowledge · traditional knowledge · indigenous knowledge
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