academic studies
Formal educational coursework
Academic studies refers to formal education and scholarly work pursued at schools, colleges, and universities.
The phrase emphasizes intellectual coursework as distinct from practical training, athletics, or social life: She excelled in her academic studies but struggled with the hands-on components.
Often shortened to simply academics: His academics suffered when he started working full-time.
- bibliographiesLists of sources used
- literary criticismAnalyzing and evaluating fiction
- hypothesis testingStatistical method for evaluating claims
- mathematicsScience of quantity and structure
- experimental designStructured plan for research
field work · peer review · academic journal · research papers · term paper · scholarly journals · dissertations · universities · ivy league · faculties · critical thinking · methodology · translations · departments · colleges · theses · literature · case studies
- scholarly workstreatises, dissertation, dissertations, journal article, theses
academic studiesvocational training
Job-skill education
trade school · apprenticeship · technical training · hands-on training · on-the-job training
academic studiesstreet smarts
Practical urban knowledge
school of hard knocks · self-education · autodidacticism · life experience · real-world experience
academic studiesmanual labor
Work done bodily
fieldwork · blue-collar work · physical training · athletics · physical education