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The humanities are a group of academic subjects united
by a commitment to studying aspects of the human
condition and a qualitative approach that generally prevents a single paradigm from coming to define any discipline. The humanities are usually distinguished
from the social
sciences and the natural
sciences and include subjects such as the classics, languages, literature, music, philosophy,
the performing
arts, religion and the visual
arts. Other subjects at times included as humanities in some parts of the
world include archaeology, area
studies, communications, cultural
studies and history,
although these are often regarded as social sciences elsewhere. Humanities -
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Cultural studies is an academic discipline popular among a diverse
group of Anglo-American scholars. It combines political
economy, sociology, social
theory, literary
theory, media
theory, film/video
studies, cultural
anthropology, philosophy and art
history/criticism to study cultural phenomena in industrial
societies. |
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Classics particularly within the Western university tradition, when used as a singular noun, is the study of the language, literature, history, art,
and other aspects of the ancient Mediterranean world—particularly ancient
Greece and Rome during the period known as classical
antiquity. |
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Creative writing is a term used to distinguish certain imaginative or
different types of writing from generic writing. The use of specificity of the
term is partly intentional, designed to make the process of writing accessible
to everyone (of all ages) and to ensure that non-traditional, or traditionally
low-status writing (for example, writing by marginalized social groups,
experimental writing, genre fiction) is not excluded from academic consideration
or dismissed as trivial or insignificant. |
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English Studies is an academic discipline that includes the study of
literatures written in the English
language (including literatures from the U.K., U.S., Canada, Australia, New
Zealand, Hong
Kong, India, South
Africa, and the Middle
East, among other areas), English linguistics (including English phonetics, phonology, syntax, morphology, semantics, pragmatics, corpus
linguistics, and stylistics), and English sociolinguistics (including discourse
analysis of written and spoken texts in the English language, the history
of the English language, English
language learning and teaching, and the study of World
Englishes). |
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History is the study of events in time, in relation to humanity. It is divided into and encompasses many sub and ancillary fields, such as chronology, historiography, genealogy, paleography, and cliometrics. Those who study it as a profession are called historians. |
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Linguistics is the scientific study of language.
Someone who engages in this study is called a linguist.
Linguistics can be theoretical or applied. |
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Literature is literally "acquaintance with
letters" as in the first sense given in the Oxford
English Dictionary (from the Latin littera meaning "an individual written character (letter)").
The term has generally come to identify a collection of texts or work
of art, which in Western culture are mainly prose,
both fiction and non-fiction, drama and poetry. |
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The word philosophy derives from the ancient Greek words philo-,
to love or to befriend, and, -sophia, to be wise. It can be construed
then either as the love of wisdom or the wisdom of love. The answer to the
question "what is philosophy?", has almost as many varieties as there
are philosophers. |
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Religious studies is the designation commonly used in
the English-speaking world for a multi-disciplinary, secular study of religion that dates to the late 19th century in Europe (and the influential early work of
such scholars as Friedrich
Max Müller, in England, and Cornelius P. Tiele, in the Netherlands), but is
practiced today by scholars worldwide. |
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