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A field of study is the field, area, or discipline which is the focus of a person's post-secondary education.

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x Psychology Psychology Journal of Abnormal Psychology    
Psychology (Greek: Ψυχολογία, lit. "study of the mind", from ψυχή psykhē "breath, spirit, soul"; and -λογία, -logia "study of") is an academic and applied discipline involving the systematic, and often scientific, study of human mental functions and...
American Imago
Cultic Studies Review
Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology
American Psychologist
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x Marketing Marketinghuis      
Marketing is an integrated communications-based process through which individuals and communities discover that existing and newly-identified needs and wants may be satisfied by the products and services of others. Marketing is defined by the...
x Civil Engineering FalkirkWheelSide 2004 SeanMcClean Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology & Hydrogeology   Structural engineering
Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works such as bridges, roads, canals, dams and buildings. Civil...
x Chemistry Chemistry - the study of atoms and the structures they unite to form Annual Reports Section C    
Chemistry (from Egyptian kēme (chem), meaning "earth") is the science concerned with the composition, structure, and properties of matter, as well as the changes it undergoes during chemical reactions. It is a physical science for studies of various...
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
Angewandte Chemie
Faraday Discussions
Synthesis
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x Aesthetics The Parthenon's facade showing an interpretation of golden rectangles in its proportions   Philosophy  
Aesthetics (also spelled æsthetics) is commonly known as the study of sensory or sensori-emotional values, sometimes called judgments of sentiment and taste. More broadly, scholars in the field define aesthetics as "critical reflection on art,...
x Epistemology According to Plato, knowledge is a subset of that which is both true and believed      
Epistemology (from Greek ἐπιστήμη - episteme-, "knowledge, science" + λόγος, "logos") or theory of knowledge is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature and scope (limitations) of knowledge. It addresses the questions: Much of the debate...
x Ethics Immanuel Kant Ethics Philosophy Medical ethics
Ethics is a branch of philosophy which seeks to address questions about morality, such as what the fundamental semantic, ontological, and epistemic nature of ethics or morality is (meta-ethics), how moral values should be determined (normative...
Environmental ethics
Normative ethics
Political philosophy
Meta-ethics
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x Metaphysics Sanzio 01 Plato Aristotle      
Metaphysics investigates principles of reality transcending those of any particular science. Cosmology and ontology are traditional branches of metaphysics. It is concerned with explaining the fundamental nature of being and the world. Someone who...
x Philosophy The Death of Socrates, by Jacques-Louis David (1787) Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal   Ethics
In the general sense, a philosophical theory is a theory that explains or accounts for a general philosophy or specific branch of philosophy. While any sort of thesis or opinion may be termed a theory, in analytic philosophy it is thought best to...
Journal of the History of Philosophy Philosophy of science
Philosophy and Literature Philosophy of language
Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology Aesthetics
Entropy History of philosophy
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x Logic     Philosophy  
Logic, from the Greek λογική (logiké) is defined by the Penguin Enclyclopedia to be "The formal systematic study of the principles of valid inference and correct reasoning". As a discipline, logic dates back to Aristotle, who established its...
x Social sciences Market day in the K'iche' town of Chichicastenango Social Evolution & History    
The social sciences comprise academic disciplines concerned with the study of the social life of human groups and individuals including anthropology, archeology, communication studies, cultural studies, demography, economics, human geography,...
Qualitative Research
Qualitative Sociology
Population and Environment
Journal of Social & Psychological Sciences
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x Music theory        
Music theory is the field of study that deals with how music works. It examines the language and notation of music. It identifies patterns that govern composers' techniques. In a grand sense, music theory distills and analyzes the parameters or...
x Nihilism        
Nihilism (from the Latin nihil, nothing) is the philosophical position that values do not exist but rather are falsely invented. Most commonly, nihilism is presented in the form of existential nihilism which argues that life is without meaning,...
x Economics NYSE-floor Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved    
Economics is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek οἰκονομία (oikonomia, "management of a household, administration") from οἶκος (oikos, ...
Quarterly Journal of Economics
Economics Letters
Comparative Technology Transfer and Society
Yale Economic Review
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x Anthropology Table of Natural History, Cyclopaedia, Volume 2 Social Evolution & History    
Anthropology (/ˌænθɹəˈpɒlədʒi/, from the Greek ἄνθρωπος, anthrōpos, "human", and -λογία, -logia, "discourse", first use in English: 1593) is the study of human beings, everywhere and throughout time. Modern human beings are defined as members of the...
American Anthropologist
Terrain
Man
Mankind Quarterly
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x Journalism Primeiro jornal Brasileiro      
Journalism is the production of news reports and editorials through media such as newspapers, magazines, radio, television and the Internet. Journalists—be they writers, editors, photographers, broadcast presenters or producers—serve as the main...
x Mathematics Advances in Applied Clifford Algebras    
Mathematics is the study of quantity, structure, space, relation, change, and various topics of pattern, form and entity. Mathematicians seek out patterns and other quantitative dimensions, whether dealing with numbers, spaces, natural science,...
Journal of Number Theory
International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Indiana University Mathematics Journal
Journal of Mathematical Physics
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x Astronomy A GALEX image of the spiral galaxy Messier 81 in ultraviolet light.  Credit:GALEX/NASA/JPL-Caltech. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society    
Astronomy (from the Greek words astron (ἄστρον), "star", and nomos (νόμος), "law") is the scientific study of celestial objects (such as stars, planets, comets, and galaxies) and phenomena that originate outside the Earth's atmosphere (such as the...
Icarus
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysical Journal
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x Astrophysics NGC 4414 (NASA-med) Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society    
Astrophysics (lang-el: Astro - meaning "star", and lang-el: physis – φύσις meaning "nature") is the branch of astronomy that deals with the physics of the universe, including the physical properties (luminosity, density, temperature, and chemical...
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysical Journal
Astronomische Nachrichten
x Electrical engineering PoleMountTransformer02 IEEE Spectrum EECS  
The precise meaning of the term electrical engineering is not universally agreed upon. In some parts of the world, it is considered to be the most general of the electricity-related engineering disciplines, with electronics engineering being a...
Bell Labs Technical Journal
IJOE
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
x Computer Science IBIS EECS Artificial intelligence
Computer science (or computing science) is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation, and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems. It is frequently described as the...
Bell Labs Technical Journal Analysis of algorithms
Entropy Theory of computation
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory Computer architecture
ACM Computing Reviews Database design
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x Communications          
x Architecture Brunelleshi-and-Duomo-of-Florence Children Youth and Environments Journal   History of Architecture
The term architecture (from Greek word ἀρχιτεκτονική - arkhitektonike) can refer to a process, a profession or documentation. As a process, architecture activity of designing and constructing buildings and other physical structures primarily to...
Urban planning
Hotel design
x History The title page  to The Historians' History of the World. Journal of the West   History of Architecture
History is the study (teaching) of the past, with special attention to the written record of the activities of human beings over time. Scholars who write about history are called historians. It is a field of research which uses a narrative to...
Social Evolution & History
Late Imperial China
Journal of Women's History
American Jewish History
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x Political Science Santi di Tito - Niccolo Machiavelli's portrait headcrop American Political Science Review   International relations
Political science is a social science concerned with the theory and practice of politics and the description and analysis of political systems and political behavior. It is often described as the study of politics defined as "who gets what, when and...
World Politics
Journal of Democracy
Security and Peace
Human Rights Quarterly
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x Classics Bust of Homer Arethusa Humanities  
Classics is the branch of the Humanities comprising the languages, literature, philosophy, history, art, archaeology and other culture of the ancient Mediterranean World; especially Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome during Classical Antiquity (Bronze...
Journal of Early Christian Studies
Journal of the History of Philosophy
Transactions of the American Philological Association
American Journal of Philology
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x Criminology        
Criminology (from Latin crīmen, "accusation"; and Greek -λογία, -logia) is the social science approach to the study of crime as an individual and social phenomenon. Criminological research areas include the incidence and forms of crime as well as...
x Applied science        
Applied science is the application of knowledge from one or more natural scientific fields to solve practical problems. Fields of engineering are closely related to applied sciences. Applied science is important for technology development. Its use...
x Materials Science The Materials Science Tetrahedron, which often also includes Characterization at the center Journal of Materials Chemistry    
Materials science or materials engineering is an interdisciplinary field involving the properties of matter and its applications to various areas of science and engineering. This science investigates the relationship between the structure of...
Advanced Functional Materials
Advanced Materials
Journal of Electronic Materials
Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering
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x Creative writing        
Creative writing is considered to be any writing, fiction, poetry, or non-fiction, that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, and technical forms of literature. Works which fall into this category include novels,...
x Public policy        
Public policy can be generally defined as the course of action or inaction taken by governmental entities (the decisions of government) with regard to a particular issue or set of issues. Other scholars define it as a system of "courses of action,...
x Writing Medieval writing desk      
Writing is the representation of language in a textual medium through the use of a set of signs or symbols (known as a writing system). It is distinguished from illustration, such as cave drawing and painting, and the recording of language via a non...
x Zoology Animal diversity October 2007 Integrative and Comparative Biology    
Zoology, also spelled zoölogy, is the branch of biology that focuses on the structure, function, behavior, and evolution of animals. The correct pronunciation of "zoology" is /zoʊˈɑləʤɪ/. Morphography is the systematic exploration, tabulation, and...
Acta Zoologica
The Zoological Record
Journal of Natural History
Physiological and Biochemical Zoology
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x EECS       Electrical engineering
EECS (sometimes pronounced /ˈiːks/ "eeks") is an abbreviation for Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. It is a designation used at some universities for the major or department that blends these two fields together. One reason behind...
Computer Science
x Mechatronics          
x Computational design        
Computational design ¬タモ definition 1. development of a computational theory of design 2. the design of products and processes through the use of digital means. These products and processes themselves integrate digital technology (they are...
x High-performance computing Nanoscience High-Performance Computing Facility      
High-performance computing (HPC) uses supercomputers and computer clusters to solve advanced computation problems. Today, computer systems approaching the teraflops-region are counted as HPC-computers. The term is most commonly associated with...
x Electrical and Mechanical Engineering          
x History and Literature          
x Cognitive science   Journal of Consciousness Studies    
Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary study of the cognitive processes underlying the acquisition and use of knowledge. It draws from converging evidence and methodology of diverse fields, including psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, ...
Mind & Language
x Particle physics First Gold Beam-Beam Collision Events at RHIC at 100 100 GeV c per beam recorded by STAR      
Particle physics is a branch of physics that studies the elementary constituents of matter and radiation, and the interactions between them. It is also called high energy physics, because many elementary particles do not occur under normal...
x Computer graphics The Utah teapot model      
Computer graphics are graphics created using computers and, more generally, the representation and manipulation of pictorial data by a computer. The development of computer graphics has made computers easier to interact with and better for...
x Nutrition MyPyramid1      
Nutrition (also called nourishment or aliment) is the provision, to cells and organisms, of the materials necessary (in the form of food) to support life. Many common health problems can be prevented or alleviated with a healthy diet. The diet of an...
x Japanese literature Genji emaki sekiya      
Japanese literature spans a period of almost two millennia. Early works were heavily influenced by cultural contact with China and Chinese literature, often written in Classical Chinese. But Japanese literature developed into a separate style in its...
x Molecular and Cell Biology        
Molecular and Cell Biology is a major at UC Berkeley with several emphases. Students in this major study biochemistry, such as with nucleic acids, proteins, and carbohydrates. Classes required for this major include general chemistry, organic...
x Biological Sciences          
x Public Health          
x Biochemical engineering Bioreactors      
Biochemical engineering is a branch of chemical engineering or biological engineering that mainly deals with the design and construction of unit processes that involve biological organisms or molecules, such as bioreactors. Biochemical engineering...
x Microbiology Agar plate with colonies Nature Reviews Microbiology    
Microbiology (from Greek μῑκρος, mīkros, "small"; βίος, bios, "life"; and -λογία, -logia) is the study of microorganisms, which are unicellular or cell-cluster microscopic organisms. This includes eukaryotes such as fungi and protists, and...
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
Microbiology
Journal of Medical Microbiology
International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
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x Mechanical Engineering Pipeanal      
Mechanical Engineering is an engineering discipline that involves the application of principles of physics for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical systems. Mechanical engineering is one of the oldest and broadest...
x Biomechanics Penguinu      
Biomechanics (Greek: βίος + μηχανική = βιομηχανικἠ, Greece: εμβιομηχανική because βιομηχανική = industrial) is the application of mechanical principles to living organisms. This includes bioengineering, the research and analysis of the mechanics of...
x Biology DNA-structure-and-bases Integrative and Comparative Biology    
Biology (from Greek βιολογία - βίος, bios, "life"; -λογία, -logia, study of) is the science that studies living organisms. Prior to the nineteenth century, biology came under the general study of all natural objects called natural history. The term...
The Quarterly Review of Biology
Journal of Biological Chemistry
PLoS Biology
Cell
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x Genetics and Development          
x Immunology Emil Adolf von Behring Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology    
Immunology is a broad branch of biomedical science that covers the study of all aspects of the immune system in all organisms. It deals with, among other things, the physiological functioning of the immune system in states of both health and disease...
x philosophy/religion (Meaning)          
x Operations research   Interfaces: An International Journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Science    
Operations research (OR) in the USA, Canada, South Africa and Australia, and operational research in Europe, is an interdisciplinary branch of applied mathematics and formal science that uses methods such as mathematical modeling, statistics, and...
x Statistics Biometrika    
Statistics is a mathematical science pertaining to the collection, analysis, interpretation or explanation, and presentation of data. Statisticians improve the quality of data with the design of experiments and survey sampling. Statistics also...
Journal of Statistical Software
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society
Journal of Business & Economic Statistics
Journal of the American Statistical Association
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x Programming language Parse tree of Python code with inset tokenization      
A programming language is a machine-readable artificial language designed to express computations that can be performed by a machine, particularly a computer. Programming languages can be used to create programs that specify the behavior of a...
x Materials Science and Engineering          
x Finance ICSID Review    
The field of finance refers to the concepts of time, money and risk and how they are interrelated. Banks are the main facilitators of funding through the provision of credit, although private equity, mutual funds, hedge funds, and other...
Financial Markets and Portfolio Management