The humanities are academic disciplines that study the human condition using analytical, critical, and speculative methods. The humanities include fields like history, languages, literature, law, philosophy, religion, and visual and performing arts. The study of the humanities has its roots in ancient Greece and the concept of the seven liberal arts. Today in the U.S., many colleges require core curriculums in the humanities to provide students a broad liberal arts education. The humanities help us reflect on what it means to be human.
The humanities are academic disciplines that study the human condition using analytical, critical, and speculative methods. The humanities include fields like history, languages, literature, law, philosophy, religion, and visual and performing arts. The study of the humanities has its roots in ancient Greece and the concept of the seven liberal arts. Today in the U.S., many colleges require core curriculums in the humanities to provide students a broad liberal arts education. The humanities help us reflect on what it means to be human.
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The humanities are academic disciplines that study the human condition using analytical, critical, and speculative methods. The humanities include fields like history, languages, literature, law, philosophy, religion, and visual and performing arts. The study of the humanities has its roots in ancient Greece and the concept of the seven liberal arts. Today in the U.S., many colleges require core curriculums in the humanities to provide students a broad liberal arts education. The humanities help us reflect on what it means to be human.
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The humanities are 1, A. History is systematically
academic disciplines which study the collected information about the human condition, using methods that past. When used as the name of are primarily analytic, critical, or a field of study, history refers to speculati the study and interpretation of Examples of the disciplines of the the record of humans, societies, humanities are institutions, and any topic that ancient and modern languages, has changed over time. literature, law, history, philosophy, 2. Languages - The study of religion, and visual and individual modern and classical performing arts (including music). languages forms the backbone of •Fields of Humanities modern study of the humanities. The classics, in the Western While the scientific study of academic tradition, refer to cultures of language is known as linguistics classical antiquity, namely the and is a social science, the study Ancient Greek and Roman cultures. of languages is still central to the The study of the classics is considered humanities. one of the cornerstones of the humanities HUMANITIES 3. Law - It has been defined as a 5. Performing arts include acrobatics, "system of rules“, as an busking, comedy, dance, magic, "interpretive concept“[ to music, opera, film, juggling, achieve justice, as an "authority marching arts, such as “[ to mediate people's interests, brass bands, and theatre. and even as "the command of a 6. Music as an academic discipline sovereign, backed by the threat can take a number of different of a sanction". paths, including music 4. Literature -any sequence of performance, music education words that has been preserved (training music teachers), for transmission in some form musicology, music theory and or other (including oral composition. transmission); more narrowly, it 7. Theatre (or theater) is the branch is often used to designate of the performing arts concerned imaginative works such as with acting out stories in front of stories, poems, and plays an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound and spectacle HUMANITIES 8. Dance (from Old French dancier, • 10. Religion is a cultural system perhaps from Frankish) generally that creates powerful and long- refers to human movement either lasting meaning, by establishing used as a form of expression or symbols that relate humanity to presented in a social, spiritual or beliefs and values.[1] Many performance setting. Dance is also religions have narratives, used to describe methods of symbols, traditions and sacred non-verbal communication (see histories that are intended to give body language) between humans or meaning to life or to explain the animals (bee dance, mating dance), origin of life or the universe. and motion in inanimate objects (the They tend to derive morality, leaves danced in the wind). ethics, religious laws or a 9. Philosophy -The works of Søren preferred lifestyle from their Kierkegaard overlap into many ideas about the cosmos and fields of the humanities, such as human nature. philosophy, literature, theology, psychology, music, and classical studies. HUMANITIES 11. The visual arts are art forms that • are the applied arts such as create works which are primarily industrial design, graphic design, visual in nature, such as ceramics, fashion design, interior design drawing, painting, sculpture, and decorative art. printmaking, design, crafts, and History of the humanities often modern visual arts ( In the West, the study of the photography, video, and humanities can be traced to filmmaking) and architecture. ancient Greece, as the basis of a These definitions should not be broad education for citizens. taken too strictly as many artistic During Roman times, the concept disciplines (performing arts, of the seven liberal arts evolved, conceptual art, textile arts) involving grammar, rhetoric and involve aspects of the visual arts logic (the trivium), along with as well as arts of other types. Also arithmetic, geometry, astronomy included within the visual arts HUMANITIES and music (the quadrivium).[13] • Columbia University were among These subjects formed the bulk of the first schools to require an medieval education, with the extensive core curriculum in emphasis being on the humanities philosophy, literature, and the arts as skills or "ways of doing.” for all students. Humanities Today in the U.S. Through the humanities we reflect • Many American colleges and on the fundamental question: What universities believe in the notion does it mean to be human? The of a broad "liberal arts humanities offer clues but never a education", which requires all complete answer. They reveal how college students to study the people have tried to make moral, humanities in addition to their spiritual, and intellectual sense of specific area of study. The a world in which irrationality, University of Chicago and despair, loneliness, and death are as conspicuous as birth, friendship, hope, and reason.