humanities
Sign in to saveHumanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture, including certain fundamental questions asked by humans. During the Renaissance, the term "humanities" referred to the study of classical literature and language, as opposed to the study of religion, or "divinity". The study of the humanities was a key part of the secular curriculum in universities at the time. Today, the humanities are more frequently defined as any fields of study outside of natural sciences, social sciences, formal sciences (like mathematics), and applied sciences (or professional training)
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The humanities are academic fields that explore human society, culture, and fundamental questions people ask about existence and meaning. They matter because they provide ways of understanding ourselves and our world that go beyond what natural sciences, mathematics, and professional training can offer.
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- Fields
- Classics
- History
- Language
- Law
- Literature
- Philosophy
- Religion
- Performing arts
- Musicology
- Theatre
- Dance
- Visual art
- History of visual arts
- Media types
- Drawing
- Painting
- History
- Today
- Education and employment
- In the United States
- The Humanities Indicators
- ''The Humanities in American Life''
- In liberal arts education
- As a major
- In the digital age
- STEM
- In Europe
- The value of the humanities debate
- Philosophical history
- Citizenship and self-reflection
- Humanistic theories and practices
- Truth and meaning
- Pleasure, the pursuit of knowledge and scholarship
- Romanticization and rejection
- See also
- References
- External links
Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture, including certain fundamental questions asked by humans. During the Renaissance, the term "humanities" referred to the study of classical literature and language, as opposed to the study of religion, or "divinity". The study of the humanities was a key part of the secular curriculum in universities at the time. Today, the humanities are more frequently defined as any fields of study outside of natural sciences, social sciences, formal sciences (like mathematics), and applied sciences (or professional training). They use methods that are primarily critical, speculative, or interpretative and have a significant historical element—as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of science.
The humanities include the academic study of philosophy, religion, history, language arts (literature, writing, oratory, rhetoric, poetry, etc.), the performing arts (theater, music, dance, etc.), and the visual arts (painting, sculpture, photography, filmmaking, etc.).