List of academic disciplines

This is a list of academic disciplines (and academic fields). An academic discipline is a branch of knowledge which is formally taught, either at the university, or via some other such method. Functionally, disciplines are usually defined and recognised by the academic journals in which research is published, and the learned societies to which their practitioners belong.

Each discipline usually has several sub-disciplines or branches and distinguishing lines are often both arbitrary and ambiguous.

Historically (in medieval Europe) there where only four faculties in a university: Theology, Medicine, Jurisprudence and Arts, with the last one having a somewhat lower status than the other three. Today's disciplines have their roots in the mid- to late-19th century secularization of universities, when the traditional curriculum was supplemented by non-classical languages and literatures, physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering. In the opening decades of the 20th century, education, sociology, and psychology took their place in the university curriculum.

A "*" denotes a field whose academic status is debated.

1 Natural sciences
2 Mathematics and computer science
- 2.1 Mathematics
- 2.2 Computer science
3 Social sciences
4 Humanities and arts
5 Professions / Applied sciences
6 See also
7 External links

Natural sciences

Astronomy

Astrophysics
- Cosmogony
- Cosmology

Mathematics and computer science

Mathematics

Algebra
Analysis
Calculus
Game theory
Geometry
Information theory
Number theory
Probability theory
Statistics
Topology
For a more extensive list, see list of mathematics articles, and list of mathematics lists.

Vexillology*

Sociology

Humanities and arts

Area studies (sometimes called cultural studies)

English linguistics
English sociolinguistics
Discourse analysis in English
Composition Studies
World Englishes
History of the English language
Teaching English as a Second Language
American literature
Australian literature
British literature (literature outside England may be written in Celtic languages)
Canadian literature (a significant amount of Canadian literature is also written in French)
Indian literature
Irish literature
New Zealand literature
Nigerian literature

Film studies and film criticism

Animation

Literature and cultural studies

Literatures

English literature
French literature
Gaelic literature
German literature
Hindi literature
Modern Hebrew Literature
Portuguese & Brazilian literature
Spanish literature
Yiddish literature
other languages' and cultures' literatures

History
- Acting
- Directing
- Design
- Dramaturgy

city planning, urban planning
industrial design, product design
graphic design, interface design
architecture
interior design (also see family and consumer science below)
landscape architecture

Foodservice management
- Hotel administration
Consumer education
Housing
Interior design (also see architecture and environmental design above)
Nutrition (also see medical sciences below)
Textiles

Forestry

Health sciences

Medical Sciences
- Dentistry
  - Dental hygiene and Epidemiology
  - Dental surgery
  - Restorative dentistry and Endodontics
  - Orthodontics
  - Oral and maxillofacial surgery
  - Pedodontics (Pediatric dentistry)
  - Periodontics
  - Prosthodontics
  - Implantology
- Human medicine
  - Cardiology
  - Endocrinology and diabetology
  - Epidemiology
  - Forensics
  - Geriatrics
  - Hematology
  - Internal medicine
  - Health science
  - Nephrology
  - Neurology
  - Neurosurgery
  - Orthopedic surgery
  - Pathology
  - Pediatrics
  - Psychiatry (see also: Anti-psychiatry*)
  - Rheumatology
  - Surgery
- Midwifery
- Nursing
- Veterinary medicine
Nutrition (also see family and consumer science above)
Optometry
Pharmacy
Physiotherapy
Public health

Journalism and mass communications

Law

Canon law
Comparative law
Constitutional law
Civil law
Criminal law
- Criminal procedure
- Criminal justice (also see Public Affairs and Community Service below)
  - Police science
  - Forensics
Islamic law
Jewish law
Jurisprudence
Manx Law
Philosophy of law

Library and information science

Archival Science
Bibliometrics
Citation analysis
Human information behaviors
Informatics
Information architecture
Informetrics
Knowledge organization
Museum informatics
Scholarly communication
Scientometrics

Military science

Artillery
Air force studies
Campaigning
Combat engineering
Comparative military systems
Doctrine
Force planning
Game theory (also see economics above)
Generalship
Joint warfare studies
Leadership
Logistics
Military ethics
Military history
Military intelligence
Military law
Military medicine
Naval science
- Naval engineering
- Naval tactics
- Naval architecture
- Weapons systems
Special operations and low intensity conflict
Strategy
Tactics
- Naval tactics

Public affairs and community service

Criminal justice (also see Law above)
- Corrections
Nonprofit administration
Parks and recreation management
Public administration
- Industrial and labor relations (also see Business above)
Social work
- Gerontology

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.

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