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?
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