academic disciplines
Branches of knowledge
Academic disciplines are the recognized branches of knowledge taught and researched at universities—physics, history, economics, philosophy, and so on.
Each discipline has its own methods, vocabulary, and standards of evidence.
The boundaries between disciplines can be rigid or porous; interdisciplinary work crosses them deliberately.
She struggled to choose between academic disciplines.
- psychologyStudy of mind, behavior
- anthropologyStudy of human cultures
- sociologyStudy of human communities
- soft sciencesNon-quantitative academic fields
- political scienceStudy of governance systems
gender studies · philosophy · studies · biology · epistemology · physics · hard sciences · linguistics · social sciences · liberal arts · classical education · semiotics · musicology · cartography · humanities · archaeology · curriculum · neuroscience
- Dutch Educationuniversity, school, gymnasium, student, docent
academic disciplinespastimes
Recreational leisure activities
leisure pursuits · recreational activities · dabbling · dilettantism · play
academic disciplinestrades
Mutual swaps or crafts
vocational skills · crafts · manual labor · blue-collar work · street smarts
academic disciplinespseudosciences
False knowledge systems
folk traditions · fringe theories · alternative medicine · old wives' tales · superstitions
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