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{tr} Training. {w} Writing. {pdp} PDP. {c} Career. {e} Events. {s} Stakeholder. {su} Student. ☗ UN Uni. ☗ Santander Universities. ◆ Academics. ◆ Philosopher. University. A university (Latin: "universitas", "a whole") is an institution of higher education and research which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects and provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education. The word "university" is derived from the Latin universitas magistrorum et scholarium, which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars. "[1] History[edit] Definition[edit] The original Latin word "universitas" refers in general to "a number of persons associated into one body, a society, company, community, guild, corporation, etc In modern usage the word has come to mean "An institution of higher education offering tuition in mainly non-vocational subjects and typically having the power to confer degrees,"[4] with the earlier emphasis on its corporate organization considered as applying historically to Medieval universities.[5] Academic freedom[edit] An important idea in the definition of a university is the notion of academic freedom.
Medieval universities[edit] Academic department. The organization of faculties into departments is not standardized, but most U.S. universities will have at least departments of History, Physics, English (language and literature), Psychology, and so on. Sometimes divisions are coarser: a liberal arts college which de-emphasizes the sciences may have a single Science department; an engineering university may have one department for Language and Literature (in all languages). Sometimes divisions may be finer: for example, Harvard University has separate departments of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Molecular and Cellular Biology, and Chemistry and Chemical Biology. Some disciplines are found in different departments at different institutions: biochemistry may be in biology, in chemistry or in its own department; computer science may be in mathematics, applied mathematics, electrical engineering, or its own department (the usual case nowadays).
List of academic disciplines and sub-disciplines. An academic discipline or field of study is a branch of knowledge that is taught and researched as part of higher education. A discipline usually has several sub-disciplines or branches, but the distinguishing lines between these are often both arbitrary and ambiguous.[1] Overlap leading to a complex networks rather than a simple heirarchies. (e.g. medicine - not currently listed here - takes from selections of health science and life sciences) Overview[edit] In the early 20th century, new disciplines such as education and psychology were added. 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).
An asterisk (*) denotes a field whose academic status has been debated among this article's editors. Humanities[edit] History[edit] Linguistics[edit] Literature[edit] Performing arts[edit] Philosophy[edit] Religion[edit] Visual arts[edit] Social sciences[edit] Anthropology[edit] Observatory on Borderless Higher Education (OBHE) Univariety: Career Counselling | College Admissions | Student Mentors.
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