Outline of academic disciplines

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.

Collage of images representing different academic disciplines

Disciplines vary between well-established ones in almost all universities with well-defined rosters of journals and conferences and nascent ones supported by only a few universities and publications. A discipline may have branches, which are often called sub-disciplines.

The following outline provides an overview of and topical guide to academic disciplines. In each case, an entry at the highest level of the hierarchy (e.g., Humanities) is a group of broadly similar disciplines; an entry at the next highest level (e.g., Music) is a discipline having some degree of autonomy and being the fundamental identity felt by its scholars. Lower levels of the hierarchy are sub-disciplines that do generally not have any role in the structure of the university's governance.

Humanities

Performing arts

• Music (outline)
  • Accompanying
  • Chamber music
  • Church music
  • Conducting
    • Choral conducting
    • Orchestral conducting
    • Wind ensemble conducting
  • Early music
  • Jazz studies (outline)
  • Musical composition
  • Music education
  • Music history
  • Musicology
    • Historical musicology
    • Systematic musicology
  • Ethnomusicology
  • Music theory
  • Orchestral studies
  • Organology
    • Organ and historical keyboards
    • Piano
    • Strings, harp, oud, and guitar (outline)
    • Singing
    • Woodwinds, brass, and percussion
  • Recording
• Dance (outline)
  • Choreography
  • Dance notation
  • Ethnochoreology
  • History of dance
• Television (outline)
  • Television studies
• Theatre (outline)
  • Acting
  • Directing
  • Dramaturgy
  • History of theatre
  • Musical theatre
  • Playwrighting
  • Puppetry
  • Scenography
  • Stage design
  • Ventriloquism
• Film (outline)
  • Animation
  • Film criticism
  • Filmmaking
  • Film theory
  • Live action

Visual arts

• Applied arts
  • Animation
  • Art director
  • Calligraphy
  • Culinary Arts
  • Outline of cuisines
  • Decorative arts
  • Digital art
  • Mixed media
  • Printmaking
  • Studio art
  • Graphic design
  • Architecture (Outline of architecture)
    • Interior architecture
    • Landscape architecture
      • Landscape design
      • Landscape planning
    • Architectural analytics
    • Historic preservation
    • Interior design (interior architecture)
    • Technical drawing
• Fashion
• Fine arts
  • Graphic arts
    • Drawing (outline)
    • Painting (outline)
    • Photography (outline)
  • Sculpture (outline)

History

Also regarded as a Social science

• African history
• American history
• Ancient history
  • Ancient Egypt
  • Carthage
  • Ancient Greek history (outline)
  • Ancient Roman history (outline)
  • Assyrian Civilization
  • Bronze Age Civilizations
  • Biblical history
  • History of the Indus Valley Civilization
  • Preclassic Maya
  • History of Mesopotamia
  • The Stone Age
  • History of the Yangtze civilization
  • History of the Yellow River civilization
• Art History
• Asian history
  • Chinese history
  • Indian history (outline)
  • Indonesian history
  • Iranian history
• Australian history
• Cultural history
• Ecclesiastical history of the Catholic Church
• Economic history
• Environmental history
• European history
• Intellectual history
• Jewish history
• Latin American history
• Modern history
• Philosophical history
  • Ancient philosophy
  • Contemporary philosophy
  • Medieval philosophy
    • Humanism (outline)
    • Scholasticism
  • Modern philosophy
• Political history
  • History of political thought
• Pre-Columbian era history
• Prehistory
• Public history
• Russian history
• Scientific history
• Technological history
• World history

Languages and literature

Linguistics listed in Social science

• English studies
• Comics studies
• Comparative literature
• Creative writing
  • Poetry
  • Prose
  • Non-fiction
  • Fiction (outline)
• English literature
• History of literature
  • Ancient literature
  • Medieval literature
  • Post-colonial literature
  • Post-modern literature
• Literary theory
  • Critical theory (outline)
  • Literary criticism
  • Poetics
• World literature
  • American literature
    • African-American literature
    • Southern literature
  • British literature
  • Canadian literature
  • Indian English literature
  • Irish literature
  • New Zealand literature
  • Scottish literature
  • South African literature
  • Welsh literature

Law

Also regarded as a Social science

Also listed in Applied science

• Administrative law
• Canon law
• Civil law
  • Admiralty law
  • Animal law/Animal rights
  • Civil procedure
  • Common law
  • Contract law
  • Corporations
  • Environmental law
  • Family law
  • Federal law
  • International law
    • Public international law
    • Supranational law
  • Labor law
  • Property law
  • Tax law
  • Tort law (outline)
• Comparative law
• Competition law
• Constitutional law
• Criminal law
  • Criminal justice (outline)
  • Criminal procedure
    • Forensic science (outline)
    • Police science
• Islamic law
• Jewish law (outline)
• Jurisprudence (Philosophy of Law)
• Legal management (academic discipline)
  • Commercial law
  • Corporate law
• Procedural law
• Substantive law

Philosophy

Also regarded as the separate, an entry at the highest level of the hierarchy

• Aesthetics (outline)
• Applied philosophy
  • Philosophy of economics
  • Philosophy of education
  • Philosophy of engineering
  • Philosophy of history
  • Philosophy of language
  • Philosophy of law
  • Philosophy of mathematics
  • Philosophy of music
  • Philosophy of psychology
  • Philosophy of religion
  • Philosophy of physical sciences
    • Philosophy of biology
    • Philosophy of chemistry
    • Philosophy of physics
  • Philosophy of social science
  • Philosophy of technology
  • Systems philosophy
  • Political Philosophy
• Epistemology (outline)
  • Justification
  • Reasoning errors
• Ethics (outline)
  • Applied ethics
    • Animal rights
    • Bioethics
    • Environmental ethics
  • Meta-ethics
  • Moral psychology, Descriptive ethics, Value theory
  • Normative ethics
    • Virtue ethics
• Logic (outline)
  • Mathematical logic
  • Philosophical logic
• Meta-philosophy
• Metaphysics (outline)
  • Philosophy of Action
  • Determinism and Free will
  • Ontology
  • Philosophy of mind
    • Philosophy of pain
    • Philosophy of artificial intelligence
    • Philosophy of perception
  • Philosophy of space and time
  • Teleology
  • Theism and Atheism
• Philosophical traditions and schools
  • African philosophy
  • Analytic philosophy
  • Aristotelianism
  • Continental philosophy
  • Eastern philosophy
  • Feminist philosophy
  • Islamic philosophy
  • Platonism
• Social philosophy and political philosophy
  • Anarchism (outline)
  • Feminist philosophy
  • Libertarianism (outline)
  • Marxism

Religious studies

Also regarded as a social science

• History of Religion
• Anthropology of Religion
• Sociology of Religion
• Psychology of Religion
• Phenomenology of Religion
• Philosophy of Religion

Divinity

• Canon law
• Church history
• Field ministry
  • Pastoral counseling
  • Pastoral theology
  • Religious education techniques
  • Homiletics
  • Liturgy
  • Sacred music
  • Missiology
• Hermeneutics
• Scriptural study and languages
  • Biblical Hebrew
  • Biblical studies/Sacred Scripture
  • New Testament Greek
  • Latin
  • Old Church Slavonic
• Theology (outline)
  • Dogmatic theology
  • Ecclesiology
  • Sacramental theology
  • Systematic theology
  • Christian ethics
  • Hindu ethics
  • Moral theology
  • Historical theology

Theology

• Biblical studies
  • Biblical Hebrew, Koine Greek, Aramaic
• Buddhist theology
  • Pali Studies
• Christian theology
  • Anglican theology
  • Baptist theology
  • Catholic theology
  • Eastern Orthodox theology
  • Protestant theology
• Hindu theology
  • Sanskrit Studies
  • Dravidian Studies
• Jewish theology
• Muslim theology
  • Arabic Studies

Social science

Anthropology

• Biological anthropology
• Linguistic anthropology
• Cultural anthropology
• Social anthropology
• Paleoanthropology

Archaeology

• Biocultural anthropology
• Evolutionary anthropology
• Feminist archaeology
• Forensic anthropology
• Maritime archaeology

Futurology (also known as future studies or prospective studies)

Main articles: Outline of futures studies and Futures studies

• Cashless Society
• Climate

Economics

• Agricultural economics
• Applied economics
• Behavioural economics
• Computational economics
• Development economics
• Econometrics
• Economic geography
• Economic sociology
• Economic systems
• Education economics
• Energy economics
• Environmental economics
• Experimental economics
• Family economics
• Financial economics
• Growth economics
• Information economics
• Institutional economics
• International economics
• Labor economics
• Health economics
• Law and economics
• Macroeconomics
• Managerial economics
• Mathematical economics
• Microeconomics
• Monetary economics
• Neuroeconomics
• Political economy
• Public economics
• Public choice
• Public finance
• Real estate economics
• Resource economics
• Social choice theory
• Transport economics
• Welfare economics

Geography

• Physical geography (is also listed in Earth Science)
  • Atmology
  • Biogeography
  • Climatology
  • Coastal geography
  • Emergency management
  • Environmental geography
  • Geobiology
  • Geochemistry
  • Geology
  • Geomatics
  • Geomorphology
  • Geophysics
  • Glaciology
  • Hydrology
  • Landscape ecology
  • Lithology
  • Meteorology
  • Mineralogy
  • Oceanography
  • Palaeogeography
  • Palaeontology
  • Petrology
  • Quaternary science
  • Soil geography
• Human geography
  • Behavioural geography
  • Cognitive geography
  • Cultural geography
  • Development geography
  • Economic geography
  • Health geography
  • Historical geography
  • Language geography
  • Mathematical geography
  • Marketing geography
  • Military geography
  • Political geography
  • Population geography
  • Religion geography
  • Social geography
  • Strategic geography
  • Time geography
  • Tourism geography
  • Transport geography
  • Urban geography
• Integrated geography
• Cartography
  • Celestial cartography
  • Planetary cartography
  • Topography

Linguistics

Also regarded as a formal science

• Applied linguistics
• Composition studies
• Computational linguistics
• Discourse analysis
• English studies
• Etymology
• Grammar
• Grammatology
• Historical linguistics
• History of linguistics
• Interlinguistics
• Lexicology
• Linguistic typology
• Morphology (linguistics)
• Natural language processing
• Philology
• Phonetics
• Phonology
• Pragmatics
• Psycholinguistics
• Rhetoric
• Semantics
• Semiotics (outline)
• Sociolinguistics
• Syntax
• Usage
• Word usage

Political science

• American politics
• Canadian politics
• Civics
• Health politics
• Biopolitics
• Comparative politics
• European studies
• Geopolitics (Political geography)
• International relations
• International organizations
• Nationalism studies
• Peace and conflict studies
• Policy studies
• Political behavior
• Political culture
• Political economy
• Political history
• Political philosophy
• Public administration
• Public law
• Psephology
• Social choice theory
• Singapore politics

Psychology

• Abnormal psychology
• Applied psychology
• Biological psychology
• Clinical neuropsychology
• Clinical psychology
• Cognitive psychology
• Community psychology
• Comparative psychology
• Conservation psychology
• Consumer psychology
• Counseling psychology
• Criminal psychology
• Cultural psychology
  • Asian psychology
  • Black psychology
• Developmental psychology
• Differential psychology
• Ecological psychology
• Educational psychology
• Environmental psychology
• Evolutionary psychology
• Experimental psychology
• Group psychology
• Family psychology
• Feminine psychology
• Forensic developmental psychology
• Forensic psychology
• Health psychology
• Humanistic psychology
• Indigenous psychology
• Legal psychology
• Mathematical psychology
• Media psychology
• Medical psychology
• Military psychology
• Moral psychology and Descriptive ethics
• Music psychology
• Neuropsychology
• Occupational health psychology
• Occupational psychology
• Organizational psychology (a.k.a., Industrial Psychology)
• Parapsychology (outline)
• Pediatric psychology
• Pedology (children study)
• Personality psychology
• Phenomenology
• Political psychology
• Positive psychology
• Psychoanalysis
• Psychobiology
• Psychology of religion
• Psychometrics
• Psychopathology
  • Child psychopathology
• Psychophysics
• Quantitative psychology
• Rehabilitation psychology
• School psychology
• Social psychology
• Sport psychology
• Traffic psychology
• Transpersonal psychology

Sociology

• Analytical sociology
• Applied sociology
  • Leisure studies
  • Political sociology
  • Public sociology
  • Social engineering
• Architectural sociology
• Area studies
  • African studies
  • American studies
    • Appalachian studies
    • Canadian studies
    • Latin American studies
  • Asian studies
    • Central Asian studies
    • East Asian studies
    • Filipinology
    • Iranian studies
    • Japanese studies
    • Korean studies
    • Sinology (outline)
    • Indology (South Asian studies)
      • Bengal studies
      • Dravidian studies (Dravidology)
      • Tamilology
      • Pakistan studies
      • Sindhology
    • Southeast Asian studies
    • Thai studies
  • Australian studies
  • European studies
    • Celtic studies
    • German studies
    • Sociology in Poland
    • Scandinavian studies
    • Slavic studies
  • Middle Eastern studies
    • Arab studies
    • Assyriology
    • Egyptology
    • Jewish studies
• Behavioral sociology
• Collective behavior
  • Social movements
• Community informatics
  • Social network analysis
• Comparative sociology
• Conflict theory
• Criminology/Criminal justice (outline)
• Critical management studies
• Critical sociology
• Cultural sociology
• Cultural studies/ethnic studies
  • Africana studies
  • Cross-cultural studies
  • Culturology
  • Deaf studies
  • Ethnology
  • Utopian studies
  • Whiteness studies
• Demography/Population
• Digital sociology
• Dramaturgical sociology
• Economic sociology
• Educational sociology
• Empirical sociology
• Environmental sociology
• Evolutionary sociology
• Feminist sociology
• Figurational sociology
• Futures studies (outline)
• Gender studies
  • Men's studies
  • Women's studies
  • Queer studies
• Historical sociology
• Human ecology
• Humanistic sociology
• Industrial sociology
• Interactionism
• Interpretive sociology
  • Ethnomethodology
  • Phenomenology
  • Social constructionism
  • Symbolic interactionism
• Jealousy sociology
• Macrosociology
• Marxist sociology
• Mathematical sociology
• Medical sociology
• Mesosociology
• Microsociology
• Military sociology
• Natural resource sociology
• Organizational theory
  • Organizational studies
• Phenomenological sociology
• Policy sociology
• Postcolonialism
• Psychoanalytic sociology
• Science studies/Science and technology studies
• Sexology
  • Heterosexism
  • Human sexual behavior
  • Human sexuality (outline)
  • Queer studies/Queer theory
  • Sex education
• Social capital
• Social change
• Social conflict theory
• Social control
  • Pure sociology
• Social economy
• Social philosophy
• Social policy
• Social psychology
• Social stratification
• Social theory
• Social transformation
  • Computational sociology
  • Economic sociology/Socioeconomics
    • Economic development
    • Social development
• Sociobiology
• Sociocybernetics
• Sociolinguistics
• Sociology of aging
• Sociology of agriculture
• Sociology of art
• Sociology of autism
• Sociology of childhood
• Sociology of conflict
• Sociology of culture
• Sociology of cyberspace
• Sociology of development
• Sociology of deviance
• Sociology of disaster
• Sociology of education
• Sociology of emotions
• Sociology of fatherhood
• Sociology of finance
• Sociology of food
• Sociology of gender
• Sociology of generations
• Sociology of globalization
• Sociology of government
• Sociology of health and illness
• Sociology of human consciousness
• Sociology of immigration
• Sociology of knowledge
• Sociology of language
• Sociology of law
• Sociology of leisure
• Sociology of literature
• Sociology of markets
• Sociology of marriage
• Sociology of motherhood
• Sociology of music
• Sociology of natural resources
• Sociology of organizations
• Sociology of peace, war, and social conflict
• Sociology of punishment
• Sociology of race and ethnic relations
• Sociology of religion
• Sociology of risk
• Sociology of science
• Sociology of scientific knowledge
• Sociology of social change
• Sociology of social movements
• Sociology of space
• Sociology of sport
• Sociology of technology
• Sociology of terrorism
• Sociology of the body
• Sociology of the family
• Sociology of the history of science
• Sociology of the Internet
• Sociology of work
• Sociomusicology
• Structural sociology
• Theoretical sociology
• Urban studies or Urban sociology/Rural sociology
• Victimology
• Visual sociology

Natural science

Biology

• Aerobiology
• Anatomy
  • Comparative anatomy
  • Human anatomy (outline)
• Biochemistry (outline)
• Bioinformatics
• Biophysics (outline)
• Biotechnology (outline)
• Botany (outline)
  • Ethnobotany
  • Phycology
• Cell biology (outline)
• Chronobiology
• Computational biology
• Cryobiology
• Developmental biology
  • Embryology
  • Teratology
• Ecology (outline)
  • Agroecology
  • Ethnoecology
  • Human ecology
  • Landscape ecology
• Endocrinology
• Epigenetics
• Ethnobiology
  • Anthrozoology
• Evolutionary biology
• Genetics (outline)
  • Behavioural genetics
  • Molecular genetics
  • Population genetics
• Histology
• Human biology
• Immunology (outline)
• Limnology
• Linnaean taxonomy
• Marine biology
• Mathematical biology
• Microbiology
  • Bacteriology
  • Protistology
• Molecular biology
• Mycology
• Neuroscience (outline)
  • Behavioral neuroscience
• Nutrition (outline)
• Paleobiology
  • Paleontology
• Parasitology
• Pathology
  • Anatomical pathology
  • Clinical pathology
  • Dermatopathology
  • Forensic pathology
  • Hematopathology
  • Histopathology
  • Molecular pathology
  • Surgical pathology
• Physiology
  • Human physiology
    • Exercise physiology
• Structural Biology
• Systematics (Taxonomy)
• Systems biology
• Virology
  • Molecular virology
• Xenobiology
• Zoology (outline)
  • Animal communications
  • Apiology
  • Arachnology
  • Arthropodology
  • Batrachology
  • Bryozoology
  • Carcinology
  • Cetology
  • Cnidariology
  • Entomology
    • Forensic entomology
  • Ethnozoology
  • Ethology
  • Helminthology
  • Herpetology
  • Ichthyology (outline)
  • Invertebrate zoology
  • Mammalogy
    • Cynology
    • Felinology
  • Malacology
    • Conchology
    • Limacology
    • Teuthology
  • Myriapodology
  • Myrmecology (outline)
  • Nematology
  • Neuroethology
  • Oology
  • Ornithology (outline)
  • Planktology
  • Primatology
  • Zootomy
  • Zoosemiotics

Chemistry

• Agrochemistry
• Analytical chemistry
• Astrochemistry
• Atmospheric chemistry
• Biochemistry (outline)
• Chemical biology
• Chemical engineering (outline)
• Cheminformatics
• Computational chemistry
• Cosmochemistry
• Electrochemistry
• Environmental chemistry
• Femtochemistry
• Flavor
• Flow chemistry
• Geochemistry
• Green chemistry
• Histochemistry
• Hydrogenation
• Immunochemistry
• Inorganic chemistry
• Marine chemistry
• Mathematical chemistry
• Mechanochemistry
• Medicinal chemistry
• Molecular biology
• Molecular mechanics
• Nanotechnology
• Natural product chemistry
• Neurochemistry
• Oenology
• Organic chemistry (outline)
• Organometallic chemistry
• Petrochemistry
• Pharmacology
• Photochemistry
• Physical chemistry
• Physical organic chemistry
• Phytochemistry
• Polymer chemistry
• Quantum chemistry
• Radiochemistry
• Solid-state chemistry
• Sonochemistry
• Supramolecular chemistry
• Surface chemistry
• Synthetic chemistry
• Theoretical chemistry
• Thermochemistry

Earth science

• Chronology
• Edaphology
• Environmental chemistry
• Environmental science
• Gemology
• Geochemistry
• Geodesy
• Physical geography (outline)
  • Atmospheric science / Meteorology (outline)
  • Biogeography / Phytogeography
  • Climatology / Paleoclimatology / Palaeogeography
  • Coastal geography / Oceanography
  • Edaphology / Pedology or Soil science
  • Geobiology
  • Geology (outline) (Geomorphology, Mineralogy, Petrology, Sedimentology, Speleology, Tectonics, Volcanology)
  • Geostatistics
  • Glaciology
  • Hydrology (outline)/ Limnology / Hydrogeology
  • Landscape ecology
  • Quaternary science
• Geophysics (outline)
• Paleontology
  • Paleobiology
  • Paleoecology

Astronomy

• Astrobiology
• Observational astronomy
  • Gamma ray astronomy
  • Infrared astronomy
  • Microwave astronomy
  • Optical astronomy
  • Radio astronomy
  • UV astronomy
  • X-ray astronomy
• Astrophysics
  • Gravitational astronomy
    • Black holes
• Cosmology
  • Physical cosmology
• Interstellar medium
• Numerical simulations
  • Astrophysical plasma
  • Galaxy formation and evolution
  • High-energy astrophysics
  • Hydrodynamics
  • Magnetohydrodynamics
  • Star formation
• Stellar astrophysics
  • Helioseismology
  • Stellar evolution
  • Stellar nucleosynthesis
• Planetary science

Physics

• Acoustics
• Aerodynamics
• Applied physics
• Astrophysics
• Atmospheric physics
• Atomic, molecular, and optical physics
• Biophysics (outline)
• Computational physics
• Condensed matter physics
• Cryogenics
• Electricity
• Electromagnetism
• Elementary particle physics
• Experimental physics
• Fluid dynamics
• Geophysics (outline)
• Mathematical physics
• Mechanics
• Medical physics
• Molecular physics
• Newtonian dynamics
• Nuclear physics
• Optics
• Plasma physics
• Quantum physics
• Solid mechanics
• Solid state physics
• Statistical mechanics
• Theoretical physics
• Thermal physics
• Thermodynamics

Formal science

Computer science

Also a branch of electrical engineering

• Logic in computer science
  • Formal methods (Formal verification)
  • Logic programming
  • Multi-valued logic
    • Fuzzy logic
  • Programming language semantics
  • Type theory
• Algorithms
  • Computational geometry
  • Distributed algorithms
  • Parallel algorithms
  • Randomized algorithms
• Artificial intelligence (outline)
  • Cognitive science
    • Automated reasoning
    • Computer vision (outline)
    • Machine learning
      • Artificial neural networks
    • Natural language processing (Computational linguistics)
  • Expert systems
  • Robotics (outline)
• Data science
• Data structures
• Computer architecture
• Computer graphics
  • Image processing
  • Scientific visualization
• Computer communications (networks)
  • Cloud computing
  • Information theory
  • Internet, World Wide Web
  • Ubiquitous computing
  • Wireless computing (Mobile computing)
• Computer security and reliability
  • Cryptography
  • Fault-tolerant computing
• Computing in mathematics, natural sciences, engineering, and medicine
  • Algebraic (symbolic) computation
  • Computational biology (bioinformatics)
  • Computational chemistry
  • Computational mathematics
  • Computational neuroscience
  • Computational number theory
  • Computational physics
  • Computer-aided engineering
    • Computational fluid dynamics
    • Finite element analysis
  • Numerical analysis
  • Scientific computing (Computational science)
• Computing in social sciences, arts, humanities, and professions
  • Community informatics
  • Computational economics
  • Computational finance
  • Computational sociology
  • Digital humanities (Humanities computing)
  • History of computer hardware
  • History of computer science (outline)
  • Humanistic informatics
  • Databases (outline)
    • Distributed databases
    • Object databases
    • Relational databases
  • Data management
  • Data mining
  • Information architecture
  • Information management
  • Information retrieval
  • Knowledge management
  • Multimedia, hypermedia
    • Sound and music computing
• Distributed computing
  • Grid computing
• Human-computer interaction
• Operating systems
• Parallel computing
  • High-performance computing
• Programming languages
  • Compilers
  • Programming paradigms
    • Concurrent programming
    • Functional programming
    • Imperative programming
    • Logic programming
    • Object-oriented programming
  • Program semantics
  • Type theory
• Quantum computing
• Software engineering
  • Formal methods (Formal verification)
• Theory of computation
  • Automata theory (Formal languages)
  • Computability theory
  • Computational complexity theory
  • Concurrency theory
• VLSI design

Mathematics

Pure mathematics

• Mathematical logic and Foundations of mathematics
  • Intuitionistic logic
  • Modal logic
  • Model theory
  • Proof theory
  • Recursion theory
  • Set theory
• Arithmetic
• Algebra (outline)
  • Associative algebra
  • Category theory
    • Topos theory
  • Differential algebra
  • Field theory
  • Group theory
    • Group representation
  • Homological algebra
  • K-theory
  • Lattice theory (Order theory)
  • Lie algebra
  • Linear algebra (Vector space)
  • Multilinear algebra
  • Non-associative algebra
  • Representation theory
  • Ring theory
    • Commutative algebra
    • Noncommutative algebra
  • Universal algebra
• Analysis
  • Complex analysis
  • Functional analysis
    • Operator theory
  • Harmonic analysis
    • Fourier analysis
  • Non-standard analysis
  • Ordinary differential equations
  • p-adic analysis
  • Partial differential equations
  • Real analysis
    • Calculus (outline)
• Probability theory
  • Ergodic theory
  • Measure theory
    • Integral geometry
  • Stochastic process
• Geometry (outline) and Topology
  • Affine geometry
  • Algebraic geometry
  • Algebraic topology
  • Convex geometry
  • Differential topology
  • Discrete geometry
  • Finite geometry
  • Galois geometry
  • General topology
  • Geometric topology
  • Integral geometry
  • Noncommutative geometry
  • Non-Euclidean geometry
  • Projective geometry
• Number theory
  • Algebraic number theory
  • Analytic number theory
  • Arithmetic combinatorics
  • Geometric number theory

Applied mathematics

• Approximation theory
• Combinatorics (outline)
  • Coding theory
• Cryptography
• Dynamical systems
  • Chaos theory
  • Fractal geometry
• Game theory
• Graph theory
• Information theory
• Mathematical physics
  • Quantum field theory
  • Quantum gravity
    • String theory
  • Quantum mechanics
  • Statistical mechanics
• Numerical analysis
• Operations research
  • Assignment problem
  • Decision analysis
  • Dynamic programming
  • Inventory theory
  • Linear programming
  • Mathematical optimization
  • Optimal maintenance
  • Real options analysis
  • Scheduling
  • Stochastic processes
  • Systems analysis
• Statistics (outline)
  • Actuarial science
  • Demography
  • Econometrics
  • Mathematical statistics
  • Data visualization
• Theory of computation
  • Computational complexity theory

Applied science

Agriculture

• Aeroponics
• Agroecology
• Agrology
• Agronomy
• Animal husbandry (Animal science)
  • Beekeeping (Apiculture)
• Anthroponics
• Agricultural economics
• Agricultural engineering
  • Biological systems engineering
  • Food engineering
• Aquaculture
• Aquaponics
• Enology
• Entomology
• Fogponics
• Food science
  • Culinary arts
• Forestry
• Horticulture
• Hydrology (outline)
• Hydroponics
• Pedology
• Plant science (outline)
  • Pomology
• Pest control
• Purification
• Viticulture

Architecture and design

• Architecture (outline)
  • Interior architecture
  • Landscape architecture
• Architectural analytics
• Historic preservation
• Interior design (interior architecture)
• Landscape architecture (landscape planning)
• Landscape design
• Urban planning (urban design)
• Visual communication
  • Graphic design
    • Type design
  • Technical drawing
• Industrial design (product design)
  • Ergonomics (outline)
  • Toy and amusement design
• User experience design
  • Interaction design
  • Information architecture
  • User interface design
  • User experience evaluation
• Decorative arts
• Fashion design
• Textile design
• Food design

Business

• Accounting
  • Accounting research
  • Accounting scholarship
• Business administration
• Business analysis
• Business ethics
• Business law
• Business management
• E-Business
• Entrepreneurship
• Finance (outline)
• Industrial and labor relations
  • Collective bargaining
  • Human resources
  • Organizational studies
  • Labor economics
  • Labor history
• Information systems (Business informatics)
  • Management information systems
  • Health informatics
• Information technology (outline)
• International trade
• Management (outline)
• Marketing (outline)
• Operations management
• Purchasing
• Risk management and insurance
• Systems science

Education

• Comparative education
• Critical pedagogy
• Curriculum and instruction
  • Alternative education
  • Early childhood education
  • Elementary education
  • Secondary education
  • Higher education
  • Mastery learning
  • Cooperative learning
  • Agricultural education
  • Art education
  • Bilingual education
  • Chemistry education
  • Counselor education
  • Language education
  • Legal education
  • Mathematics education
  • Medical education
  • Military education and training
  • Music education
  • Nursing education
  • Outdoor education
  • Peace education
  • Physical education/Sports coaching
  • Physics education
  • Reading education
  • Religious education
  • Science education
  • Special education
  • Sex education
  • Sociology of education
  • Technology education
  • Vocational education
• Educational leadership
• Educational philosophy
• Educational psychology
• Educational technology
• Distance education

Engineering and technology

Chemical engineering

• Bioengineering
  • Biochemical engineering
  • Biomolecular engineering
• Catalysis
• Materials engineering
• Molecular engineering
• Nanotechnology
• Polymer engineering
• Process design
  • Petroleum engineering
  • Nuclear engineering
  • Food engineering
• Process engineering
• Reaction engineering
• Thermodynamics
• Transport phenomena

Civil engineering

• Coastal engineering
• Earthquake engineering
• Ecological engineering
• Environmental engineering
• Geotechnical engineering
  • Engineering geology
• Hydraulic engineering
• Mining engineering
• Transportation engineering
  • Highway engineering
• Structural engineering
  • Architectural engineering
• Structural mechanics
• Surveying

Educational technology

• Instructional design
  • Distance education
  • Instructional simulation
• Human performance technology
• Knowledge management

Electrical engineering

• Applied physics
• Computer engineering (outline)
• Computer science
• Control systems engineering
  • Control theory
• Electronic engineering
  • Instrumentation engineering
• Engineering physics
  • Photonics
• Information theory
• Mechatronics
• Power engineering
• Quantum computing
• Robotics (outline)
• Semiconductors
• Telecommunications engineering

Materials science

• Biomaterials
• Ceramic engineering
• Crystallography
• Nanomaterials
• Photonics
• Physical Metallurgy
• Polymer engineering
• Polymer science
• Semiconductors

Mechanical engineering

• Aerospace engineering
  • Aeronautics
  • Astronautics
• Acoustical engineering
• Automotive engineering
• Biomedical engineering
  • Biomechanical engineering
  • Neural engineering
• Continuum mechanics
• Fluid mechanics
• Heat transfer
• Industrial engineering
• Manufacturing engineering
• Marine engineering
• Mass transfer
• Mechatronics
• Nanoengineering
• Ocean engineering
• Optical engineering
• Robotics
• Thermodynamics

Systems science

• Chaos theory
• Complex systems
• Conceptual systems
• Control theory
  • Affect control theory
  • Control engineering
  • Control systems
  • Dynamical systems
  • Perceptual control theory
• Cybernetics
  • Biocybernetics
  • Engineering cybernetics
  • Management cybernetics
  • Medical cybernetics
  • New Cybernetics
  • Second-order cybernetics
  • Sociocybernetics
• Network science
• Operations research
• Systems biology
  • Computational systems biology
  • Synthetic biology
  • Systems immunology
  • Systems neuroscience
• System dynamics
  • Social dynamics
• Systems ecology
  • Ecosystem ecology
• Systems engineering
  • Biological systems engineering
  • Earth systems engineering and management
  • Enterprise systems engineering
  • Systems analysis
• Systems psychology
  • Ergonomics
  • Family systems theory
  • Systemic therapy
• Systems theory
  • Biochemical systems theory
  • Ecological systems theory
  • Developmental systems theory
  • General systems theory
  • Living systems theory
  • LTI system theory
  • Mathematical system theory
  • Sociotechnical systems theory
  • World-systems theory
• Systems theory in anthropology

Environmental studies and forestry

• Environmental management
  • Coastal management
  • Fisheries management
  • Land management
  • Natural resource management
  • Waste management
  • Wildlife management
• Environmental policy
• Wildlife observation
• Recreation ecology
• Silviculture
• Sustainability studies
  • Sustainable development
• Toxicology
• Ecology

Family and consumer science

• Consumer education
• Housing
• Interior design
• Nutrition (outline)
  • Foodservice management
• Textiles

Human physical performance and recreation

• Biomechanics / Sports biomechanics
• Sports coaching
• Escapology
• Ergonomics
• Physical fitness
  • Aerobics
  • Personal trainer / Personal fitness training
• Game design
• Exercise physiology
• Kinesiology / Exercise physiology / Performance science
• Leisure studies
• Navigation
• Outdoor activity
• Physical activity
• Physical education / Pedagogy
• Sociology of sport
• Sexology
• Sports / exercise
• Sports journalism / sportscasting
• Sport management
  • Athletic director
• Sport psychology
• Sports medicine
  • Athletic training
• Survival skills
  • Batoning
  • Bushcraft
  • Scoutcraft
  • Woodcraft
• Toy and amusement design

Journalism, media studies and communication

• Journalism (outline)
  • Broadcast journalism
  • Digital journalism
  • Literary journalism
  • New media journalism
  • Print journalism
  • Sports journalism / sportscasting
• Media studies (Mass media)
  • Newspaper
  • Magazine
  • Radio (outline)
  • Television (outline)
    • Television studies
  • Film (outline)
    • Film studies
  • Game studies
  • Fan studies
• Narratology
  • Internet (outline)
• Communication studies
  • Advertising
  • Animal communication
  • Communication design
  • Conspiracy theory
  • Digital media
  • Electronic media
  • Environmental communication
  • Hoax
  • Information theory
  • Intercultural communication
  • Marketing (outline)
  • Mass communication
  • Nonverbal communication
  • Organizational communication
  • Popular culture studies
  • Propaganda
  • Public relations (outline)
  • Speech communication
  • Technical writing
  • Translation

Law

Also regarded as a social science

Also listed in Humanities

• Legal management (academic discipline)
  • Corporate law
  • Mercantile law
  • Business law
• Administrative law
• Canon law
• Comparative law
• Constitutional law
• Competition law
• Criminal law
  • Criminal procedure
  • Criminal justice (outline)
    • Police science
    • Forensic science (outline)
• Islamic law
• Jewish law (outline)
• Jurisprudence (Philosophy of Law)
• Civil law
  • Admiralty law
  • Animal law/Animal rights
  • Common law
  • Corporations
  • Civil procedure
  • Contract law
  • Environmental law
  • Family law
  • Federal law
  • International law
    • Public international law
    • Supranational law
  • Labor law
  • Paralegal studies
  • Property law
  • Tax law
  • Tort law (outline)
• Law enforcement (outline)
• Procedural law
• Substantive law

Library and museum studies

• Archival science
• Archivist
• Bibliographic databases
• Bibliometrics
• Bookmobile
• Cataloging
  • Citation analysis
• Categorization
• Classification
  • Library classification
  • Taxonomic classification
  • Scientific classification
  • Statistical classification
  • Security classification
  • Film classification
• Collections care
• Collection management
• Collection Management Policy
• Conservation science
• Conservation and restoration of cultural heritage
• Curator
• Data storage
• Database management
• Data modeling
• Digital preservation
• Dissemination
• Film preservation
• Five laws of library science
• Historic preservation
• History of library science
• Human-computer interaction
• Indexer
• Informatics
• Information architecture
• Information broker
• Information literacy
• Information retrieval
• Information science (outline)
• Information systems and technology
• Integrated library system
• Interlibrary loan
• Knowledge engineering
• Knowledge management
• Library
• Library binding
• Library circulation
• Library instruction
• Library portal
• Library technical services
• Management
• Mass deacidification
• Museology
• Museum education
  • Museum administration
• Object conservation
• Preservation
• Prospect research
• Readers' advisory
• Records management
• Reference
• Reference desk
• Reference management software
• Registrar
• Research methods
• Slow fire
• Special library
• Statistics

Medicine and health

• Alternative medicine
• Audiology
• Clinical laboratory sciences/Clinical pathology/Laboratory medicine
  • Clinical biochemistry
  • Cytogenetics
  • Cytohematology
  • Cytology (outline)
  • Haemostasiology
  • Histology
  • Clinical immunology
  • Clinical microbiology
  • Molecular genetics
  • Parasitology
• Clinical physiology
• Dentistry (outline)
  • Dental hygiene and epidemiology
  • Dental surgery
  • Endodontics
  • Implantology
  • Oral and maxillofacial surgery
  • Orthodontics
  • Periodontics
  • Prosthodontics
• Dermatology
• Emergency medicine (outline)
• Epidemiology
• Geriatrics
• Gynaecology
• Health informatics/Clinical informatics
• Hematology
• Holistic medicine
• Infectious disease
• Intensive care medicine
• Internal medicine
  • Cardiology
    • Cardiac electrophysiology
  • Endocrinology
  • Gastroenterology
  • Hepatology
  • Nephrology
  • Neurology
  • Oncology
  • Pulmonology
  • Rheumatology
• Medical toxicology
• Music therapy
• Nursing
• Nutrition (outline) and dietetics
• Obstetrics (outline)
• Occupational hygiene
• Occupational therapy
• Occupational toxicology
• Ophthalmology
  • Neuro-ophthalmology
• Optometry
• Otolaryngology
• Pathology
• Pediatrics
• Pharmaceutical sciences
  • Pharmaceutical chemistry
  • Pharmaceutical toxicology
  • Pharmaceutics
  • Pharmacocybernetics
  • Pharmacodynamics
  • Pharmacogenomics
  • Pharmacognosy
  • Pharmacokinetics
  • Pharmacology
  • Pharmacy
• Physical fitness
  • Group Fitness / aerobics
  • Kinesiology / Exercise science / Human performance
  • Personal fitness training
• Physical therapy
• Physiotherapy
• Podiatry
• Preventive medicine
• Primary care
  • General practice
• Psychiatry (outline)
  • Forensic psychiatry
• Psychology (outline)
• Public health
• Radiology
• Recreational therapy
• Rehabilitation medicine
• Respiratory therapy
• Sleep medicine
• Speech–language pathology
• Sports medicine
• Surgery
  • Bariatric surgery
  • Cardiothoracic surgery
  • Neurosurgery
  • Orthoptics
  • Orthopedic surgery
  • Plastic surgery
  • Trauma surgery
  • Traumatology
• Traditional medicine
• Urology
  • Andrology
• Veterinary medicine

Military sciences

• Amphibious warfare
• Artillery
• Battlespace
  • Air
  • Information
  • Land
  • Sea
  • Space
• Campaigning
• Military engineering
• Doctrine
• Espionage
• Game theory
• Grand strategy
  • Containment
  • Limited war
  • Military science (outline)
  • Philosophy of war
  • Strategic studies
  • Chess
  • Total war
  • War (outline)
• Leadership
• Logistics
  • Materiel
  • Supply chain management
• Military operation
• Military history
  • Prehistoric
  • Ancient
  • Medieval
  • Early modern
  • Industrial
  • Modern
  • Fourth-generation warfare
• Military intelligence
• Military law
• Military medicine
• Naval science
  • Naval engineering
  • Naval tactics
  • Naval architecture
• Organization
  • Command and control
  • Doctrine
  • Education and training
  • Engineers
  • Intelligence
  • Ranks
  • Staff
  • Technology and equipment
  • Military exercises
  • Military simulation
  • Military sports
• Strategy
  • Attrition
  • Deception
  • Defensive
  • Offensive
  • Counter-offensive
  • Maneuver
  • Goal
  • Naval
• Tactics
  • Aerial
  • Battle
  • Cavalry
  • Charge
  • Counter-attack
  • Counter-insurgency
  • Counter-intelligence
  • Counter-terrorism
  • Foxhole
  • Endemic warfare
  • Guerrilla warfare
  • Infiltration
  • Irregular warfare
  • Morale
  • Naval tactics
  • Siege
  • Surgical strike
  • Tactical objective
  • Trench warfare
• Military weapons
  • Armor
  • Artillery
  • Biological
  • Cavalry
  • Conventional
  • Chemical
  • Cyber
  • Economic
  • Electronic
  • Infantry
  • Nuclear
  • Psychological
  • Unconventional
• Other Military
  • Arms control
  • Arms race
  • Assassination
  • Asymmetric warfare
  • Civil defense
  • Clandestine operation
  • Collateral damage
  • Cold war (general term)
  • Combat
  • Covert operation
  • Cyberwarfare
  • Defense industry
  • Disarmament
  • Intelligence agency
  • Laws of war
  • Mercenary
  • Military campaign
  • Military operation
  • Mock combat
  • Network-centric warfare
  • Paramilitary
  • Principles of war
  • Private defense agency
  • Private military company
  • Proxy war
  • Religious war
  • Security
  • Special forces
  • Special operations
  • Theater (warfare)
  • Theft
  • Undercover
  • War crimes
  • Warrior

Public administration

• Civil service
• Corrections
• Conservation biology
• Criminal justice (outline)
• Disaster research
• Disaster response
• Emergency management
• Emergency services
• Fire safety (Structural fire protection)
• Fire ecology (Wildland fire management)
• Governmental affairs
• International affairs
• Law enforcement
• Peace and conflict studies
• Police science
• Policy studies
  • Policy analysis
• Public administration
  • Nonprofit administration
  • Non-governmental organization (NGO) administration
  • Public policy doctrine
  • Public policy school
  • Regulation
• Public safety
• Public service

Public policy

• Agricultural policy
• Commercial policy
• Cultural policy
• Domestic policy
• Drug policy
  • Drug policy reform
• Economic policy
  • Fiscal policy
  • Incomes policy
  • Industrial policy
  • Investment policy
  • Monetary policy
  • Tax policy
• Education policy
• Energy policy
  • Nuclear energy policy
  • Renewable energy policy
• Environmental policy
• Food policy
• Foreign policy
• Governance
• Health policy
  • Pharmaceutical policy
  • Vaccination policy
• Housing policy
• Immigration policy
• Knowledge policy
• Language policy
• Military policy
• Science policy
  • Climate change policy
  • Stem cell research policy
  • Space policy
  • Technology policy
• Security policy
• Social policy
• Public policy by country

Social work

• Child welfare
• Community practice
  • Community organizing
  • Social policy
• Human Services
• Corrections
• Gerontology
• Medical social work
• Mental health
• School social work

Transportation

• Highway safety
• Infographics
• Intermodal transportation studies
• Logistics
• Marine transportation
  • Port management
  • Seafaring
• Operations research
• Mass transit
• Travel
• Vehicles

See also

• Academia (outline)
• Branches of science (outline)
• Classification of Instructional Programs
• Joint Academic Coding System
• List of fields of doctoral studies in the United States
• List of academic fields

Further reading

• Abbott, Andrew (2001). Chaos of Disciplines. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-00101-2.
• Oleson, Alexandra; Voss, John (1979). The Organization of knowledge in modern America, 1860–1920. ISBN 0-8018-2108-8.
• US Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences. Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP). National Center for Education Statistics.

External links

• Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP 2000): Developed by the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics to provide a taxonomic scheme that will support the accurate tracking, assessment, and reporting of fields of study and program completions activity.
• Complete JACS (Joint Academic Classification of Subjects) from Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) in the United Kingdom
• Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC 2008) (web-page Archived 2010-12-12 at the Wayback Machine) Chapter 3 and Appendix 1: Fields of research classification.
• Fields of Knowledge, a zoomable map allowing the academic disciplines and sub-disciplines in this article be visualised.
• Sandoz, R. (ed.), Interactive Historical Atlas of the Disciplines, University of Geneva