university departments
Campus subject areas
University departments are the organizational units within a college or university that group faculty, staff, and students by academic discipline or field of study.
Each department typically handles its own curriculum, hires its own professors, and manages degree programs in its area—the English department, the physics department, the economics department.
She's chair of the history department.
Departments may be housed within larger divisions called schools or colleges, such as a school of engineering containing separate departments for civil, mechanical, and electrical engineering.
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- environmental studiesAcademic field on human-nature interaction
- mathematicsScience of quantity and structure
- physicsScience of matter and energy
- gender studiesScholarly analysis of social identities
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