Talk:Outline of the humanities

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Economics was originally considered one of the humanities ("the dismal science"), and also geography. To include or not to include? I say include. OttawaAC (talk) 02:39, 11 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Just coming back to add: I would remove the subsection on "Some humanities departments", because the criteria for making the list aren't obvious (the largest? The most expensive? Just random choices?), it will never be exhaustive, and I just don't think it's very useful to readers. The rest of the info on humanities education pretty much covers it, I think.OttawaAC (talk) 03:35, 11 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Should we be including Philosophy in the list of "humanities that are also social sciences"? It's certainly classed as such at notable universities such as Warwick. Aratos (talk) 19:21, 14 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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"Outline" is short for "hierarchical outline". There are two types of outlines: sentence outlines (like those you made in school to plan a paper), and topic outlines (like the topical synopses that professors hand out at the beginning of a college course). Outlines on Wikipedia are primarily topic outlines that serve 2 main purposes: they provide taxonomical classification of subjects showing what topics belong to a subject and how they are related to each other (via their placement in the tree structure), and as subject-based tables of contents linked to topics in the encyclopedia. The hierarchy is maintained through the use of heading levels and indented bullets. See Wikipedia:Outlines for a more in-depth explanation. The Transhumanist 00:11, 9 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]