WOW.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. List of academic fields - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_fields

    Meta-philosophy. Metaphysics (outline) Ontology. Teleology. Philosophy of mind. Philosophy of artificial intelligence. Philosophy of perception. Philosophy of pain. Philosophy of space and time.

  3. Outline of academic disciplines - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_academic...

    An academic discipline or field of study is a branch of knowledge, taught and researched as part of higher education. A scholar's discipline is commonly defined by the university faculties and learned societies to which they belong and the academic journals in which they publish research. Disciplines vary between well-established ones in almost ...

  4. Academic discipline - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_discipline

    Academic discipline. An academic discipline or academic field is a subdivision of knowledge that is taught and researched at the college or university level. Disciplines are defined (in part) and recognized by the academic journals in which research is published, and the learned societies and academic departments or faculties within colleges ...

  5. Research - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research

    A keen interest in the chosen subject area is advisable. The research will have to be justified by linking its importance to already existing knowledge about the topic. Hypothesis: A testable prediction which designates the relationship between two or more variables. Conceptual definition: Description of a concept by relating it to other ...

  6. Faculty (division) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faculty_(division)

    Faculty (division) A faculty is a division within a university or college comprising one subject area or a group of related subject areas, possibly also delimited by level (e.g. undergraduate). [1] In North America, academic divisions are sometimes titled colleges, schools, or departments, with universities occasionally using a mixture of ...

  7. Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science,_technology...

    Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is an umbrella term used to group together the distinct but related technical disciplines of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The term is typically used in the context of education policy or curriculum choices in schools. It has implications for workforce development ...

  8. Course (education) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Course_(education)

    Course (education) In higher education, a course is a unit of teaching that typically lasts one academic term, is led by one or more instructors (teachers or professors), and has a fixed roster of students. A course usually covers an individual subject. Courses generally have a fixed program of sessions every week during the term, called ...

  9. List of areas of law - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_areas_of_law

    The following is a list of major areas of legal practice and important legal subject-matters. From, one of the five capital lawyers in Roman Law, Domitius Ulpianus, (170–223) – who differentiated ius publicum versus ius privatum – the European, more exactly the continental law, philosophers and thinkers want(ed) to put each branch of law into this dichotomy: Public and Private Law ...