Humanistic Discipline

Of study.   May also be referred to as arts, humanities and liberal arts.

Studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills); "the college of arts and sciences".

This concept's ID is @1~33069

Artistic Style

  • neoclassicism 1 facts

    Revival of a classical style (in art or literature or architecture or music) but from...

  • classicism 1 facts

    A movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored...

  • Romanticism 1 facts

    A movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that...

Also contains

  • philosophy 43 facts

    The rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics.

  • literary study 6 facts

    The humanistic study of literature.

  • history 4 facts

    The discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings; "he teaches...

  • linguistics 4 facts

    The humanistic study of language and literature.

  • fine arts 4 facts

    The study and creation of visual works of art.

  • performing arts 4 facts

    Arts or skills that require public performance.

  • library science 1 facts

    The study of the principles and practices of library administration.

  • art history 1 facts

    The academic discipline that studies the development of painting and sculpture.

  • chronology 1 facts

    The determination of the actual temporal sequence of past events.

  • musicology 1 facts

    The scholarly and scientific study of music.

  • Sinology 1 facts

    The study of Chinese history and language and culture.

  • Orientalism 1 facts

    The scholarly knowledge of Asian cultures and languages and people.

  • English 0 facts

    The discipline that studies the English language and literature.

  • stemmatology 0 facts

    The humanistic discipline that attempts to reconstruct the transmission of a text (especially...

  • trivium 0 facts

    (Middle Ages) an introductory curriculum at a medieval university involving grammar and...

  • quadrivium 0 facts

    (Middle Ages) a higher division of the curriculum in a medieval university involving...

  • Occidentalism 0 facts

    The scholarly knowledge of western cultures and languages and people.