Look up: humanities

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   Humanities
   The humanities are often described as being at the centre of learning. They include the the study of reading, writing, language, and thinking. Humanities subjects are those branches of knowledge, such as philosophy, literature, and art, that are concerned with human thought and culture.
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   humanities
   one of the 25 fields of education in the ISCED which includes the following educational programmes/subject groups: religion and theology; foreign languages and cultures: living or `dead` languages and their literature, area studies; native languages: current or vernacular language and its literature; other humanities: interpretation and translation, linguistics, comparative literature, history, ar...
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   Humanities
   A collective term for a range of subjects including: history, geography, religious studies, sociology and others
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   Humanities
   The `humanities` are those academic disciplines which study the human condition, using methods that are largely analytic, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural and social sciences. Conventionally the humanities include ancient and modern languages and literature, history, philosophy, religion, visual and performing arts (including music). Additional subjects sometimes included in the humani...
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   Humanities
   • (pl. ) of Humanity
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   humanities
   those branches of knowledge that concern themselves with human beings and their culture or with analytic and critical methods of inquiry derived from ... [2 related articles]
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