Humanities encompass many disciplines and can be organized within university schools under a variety of names.  Some universities have a school of liberal arts, which includes most humanities fields.  Others, such as Staffordshire in England encompasses many of the humanities under the umbrella of the Faculty of Fine Arts and Creative Technologies.  Subsumed under this umbrella, the student will find a mix of disciplines in the School of Journalism, Humanities and Social Sciences (Staffordshire University).  No matter how the disciplines are organized within the university, the humanities are concerned with people -- their time, their language, their habits, their religion, their culture, and how they think about the world.

The field of philosophy is often associated with the school of religious studies; however, the two fields are totally different and for the philosophy scholar purist, they should not be organized together. When disciplines are grouped together, many times it is due to organizational or budgetary constraints.  Also, these types of groupings are related to the origins of the university or the budgetary constraints.  You will notice many Catholic and Christian universities group these disciplines together.  Philosophy as a discipline studies the great questions of humanity:  who are we? why are we here? what is knowledge? what is reality?