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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to academic disciplines:

An academic discipline or field of study is a branch of knowledge, taught and researched as part of higher education. A scholar's discipline is commonly defined by the university faculties and learned societies to which they belong and the academic journals in which they publish research.

Disciplines vary between well-established ones that exist in almost all universities and have well-defined rosters of journals and conferences, and nascent ones supported by only a few universities and publications. A discipline may have branches, and these are often called sub-disciplines.

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to academic disciplines. In each case an entry at the highest level of the hierarchy (e.g., Humanities) is a group of broadly similar disciplines; an entry at the next highest level (e.g., Music) is a discipline having some degree of autonomy and being the basic identity felt by its scholars; and lower levels of the hierarchy are sub-disciplines not normally having any role in the structure of the university's governance.


Humanities[edit]

Arts[edit]


Performing arts[edit]


Visual arts[edit]



History[edit]


Languages and literature[edit]



Law[edit]



Philosophy[edit]



Theology[edit]

Social sciences[edit]

Anthropology[edit]

Archaeology[edit]

Economics[edit]



Human geography[edit]


Political science[edit]



Psychology[edit]


Sociology[edit]

Social Work[edit]


Natural Sciences[edit]

Biology[edit]

Chemistry[edit]


Earth science[edit]

Space sciences[edit]

Physics[edit]



Formal Sciences[edit]

Computer Science[edit]

Also a branch of electrical engineering

Mathematics[edit]

Pure mathematics

Applied mathematics

Statistics[edit]

Applied Sciences[edit]

Business[edit]

Engineering and technology[edit]

Chemical Engineering

Civil Engineering

Educational Technology

Electrical Engineering

Materials Science and Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

Systems science


Medicine and health[edit]


See also[edit]

References[edit]

  • Abbott, Andrew (2001). Chaos of Disciplines. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-00101-2.
  • Oleson, Alexandra; Voss, John (1979). The Organization of knowledge in modern America, 1860-1920. ISBN 0-8018-2108-8.
  • US Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences. Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP). National Center for Education Statistics.

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