Faculty (division)
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| - | An '''academic discipline''', or '''field of study''', is a branch of [[knowledge]] that is [[teaching|taught]] and [[research]]ed at the college or university level. Disciplines are defined (in part) and recognized by the [[academic journal]]s in which research is published, and the [[learned society|learned societies]] and [[academia|academic]] departments or faculties to which their practitioners belong. | ||
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| - | However, there exists no formal criteria for when educational programs and scholarly journals form an academic discipline. A huge difference exists between well established disciplines that exist in almost all universities all over the world having a long history, and well established set of journals and conferences, on the other hand, suggestions for new fields supported only by few universities and publications. | ||
| - | Fields of study usually have several sub-disciplines or branches and the distinguishing lines between these are often both arbitrary and ambiguous. | ||
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| - | == Overview == | ||
| - | The [[University of Paris]] in 1231 consisted of four [[Faculty (division)|faculties]]: [[Theology]], [[Medicine]], [[Canon Law]] and [[Liberal Arts|Arts]]. Most academic disciplines have their roots in the mid-to-late-19th century [[secularization]] of universities, when the traditional [[curriculum|curricula]] were supplemented with non-classical languages and [[literatures]], [[social sciences]] such as [[political science]], [[economics]], [[sociology]] and [[public administration]], and [[natural science]] and [[technology]] disciplines such as [[physics]], [[chemistry]], [[biology]], and [[engineering]]. | ||
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| - | In the early 20th century, new disciplines such as [[education]] and [[psychology]] were added. In the 1970s and 1980s, there was an explosion of new disciplines focusing on specific themes, such as [[media studies]], [[women's studies]], and [[black studies]]. Many disciplines designed as preparation for careers and professions, such as [[nursing]], [[Hospitality management studies|hospitality management]], and [[corrections]], also emerged in the universities. Finally, interdisciplinary scientific fields such as [[biochemistry]] and [[geophysics]] gained prominence as their contribution to knowledge became widely recognized. | ||
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| - | There is no consensus on how some academic disciplines should be classified, ''e.g.'', whether [[anthropology]] and [[linguistics]] are [[social sciences]] disciplines or [[humanities]] disciplines. More generally, the proper criteria for organizing knowledge into disciplines are also open to debate. | ||
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| - | == See also == | ||
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| - | * [[Academia]] | ||
| - | * [[Academic genealogy]] | ||
| - | * [[Curriculum]] | ||
| - | * [[Interdisciplinarity]] | ||
| - | * [[Transdisciplinary studies]] | ||
| - | * [[Classification of Instructional Programs]] | ||
| - | * [[Joint Academic Classification of Subjects]] | ||
| - | * [[Outline of education]] | ||
| - | * [[List of fields of doctoral studies]] | ||
| + | A '''faculty''' is a division within a [[university]] or [[college]] comprising one subject area or a group of related subject areas, possibly also delimited by level (e.g. undergraduate). | ||
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A faculty is a division within a university or college comprising one subject area or a group of related subject areas, possibly also delimited by level (e.g. undergraduate).
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