humanistic discipline

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humanistic discipline - studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills); "the college of arts and sciences"arts, humanities, liberal artsdiscipline, field of study, subject area, subject field, bailiwick, subject, field, study - a branch of knowledge; "in what discipline is his doctorate?"; "teachers should be well trained in their subject"; "anthropology is the study of human beings"neoclassicism - revival of a classical style (in art or literature or architecture or music) but from a new perspective or with a new motivationclassicalism, classicism - a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms; "classicism often derived its models from the ancient Greeks and Romans"Romantic Movement, Romanticism - a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization; "Romanticism valued imagination and emotion over rationality"English - the discipline that studies the English language and literaturehistory - the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings; "he teaches Medieval history"; "history takes the long view"art history - the academic discipline that studies the development of painting and sculpturechronology - the determination of the actual temporal sequence of past eventsbeaux arts, fine arts - the study and creation of visual works of artperforming arts - arts or skills that require public performanceOccidentalism - the scholarly knowledge of western cultures and languages and peopleOriental Studies, Orientalism - the scholarly knowledge of Asian cultures and languages and peoplephilosophy - the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethicsliterary study - the humanistic study of literaturelibrary science - the study of the principles and practices of library administrationphilology, linguistics - the humanistic study of language and literaturemusicology - the scholarly and scientific study of musicSinology - the study of Chinese history and language and culturestemmatics, stemmatology - the humanistic discipline that attempts to reconstruct the transmission of a text (especially a text in manuscript form) on the basis of relations between the various surviving manuscripts (sometimes using cladistic analysis); "stemmatology also plays an important role in musicology"; "transcription errors are of decisive importance in stemmatics"trivium - (Middle Ages) an introductory curriculum at a medieval university involving grammar and logic and rhetoric; considered to be a triple way to eloquencequadrivium - (Middle Ages) a higher division of the curriculum in a medieval university involving arithmetic and music and geometry and astronomy