List of academic fields

Mind map of top level disciplines and professions

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

An academic discipline or field of study is known as a branch of knowledge. It is taught as an accredited part of higher education. A scholar's discipline is commonly defined and recognized by a university faculties. That person will be accredited by learned societies to which he or she belongs along with the academic journals in which he or she publishes. However, no formal criteria exist for defining an academic discipline.

Disciplines varies between universities and programs. These discipline will have well-defined rosters of journals and conferences supported by a few universities and publications. A discipline may have branches, that are called sub-disciplines.

There is no consensus on how some academic disciplines should be classified (e.g., whether anthropology and linguistics are disciplines of social sciences or fields within the humanities). More generally, the proper criteria for organizing knowledge into disciplines are also open to debate.

Historical background

History of academic disciplines – academic disciplines arose from learning institutions as those grew to include specialized faculties or departments

• Faculty
• Academic Department
• Regional Accreditation
• United states Department of Education

Humanities

Social sciences

Natural sciences

Formal sciences

Professions and applied sciences

See also

• Academia (outline)
• Academic genealogy
• Curriculum
• Interdisciplinarity
• Transdisciplinarity
• Classification of Instructional Programs
• Joint Academic Coding System
• List of fields of doctoral studies in the United States
• Outline of academic disciplines

Notes

References

• 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.

External links

• Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP 2000): Developed by the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics to provide a taxonomic scheme that will support the accurate tracking, assessment, and reporting of fields of study and program completions activity.
• Complete JACS (Joint Academic Classification of Subjects) from Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) in the United Kingdom
• Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC 2008) (web-page) Chapter 3 and Appendix 1: Fields of research classification.
• Fields of Knowledge, a zoomable map allowing the academic disciplines and sub-disciplines in this article be visualised.
• Online reference materials for any kind of specific academic disciplines .