Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: List of academic disciplines, List of unrecognized higher education accreditation organizations, Index of education articles, List of recognized higher education accreditation organizations, List of admission tests to colleges and universities, List of songs about school, List of state schools, colleges and universities in the Philippines, List of colleges active at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, List of Advanced Level subjects, List of works on Waldorf education, List of CIE Advanced Level subjects, List of education articles by country, List of master's degrees, List of tagged degrees, List of MCAT topics, List of television series about school, List of universities with accredited dietetic programs, List of schools of psychoanalysis, Lists of institutions of higher education by endowment, List of abandoned education methods, List of university and college entrance exams. Excerpt: An academic discipline, or field of study, is a branch of knowledge that is taught and researched at the college or university level. Disciplines are defined (in part), and recognized by the academic journals in which research is published, and the learned societies and academic departments or faculties to which their practitioners belong. Fields of study usually have several sub-disciplines or branches, and the distinguishing lines between these are often both arbitrary and ambiguous. The University of Paris in 1231 consisted of four faculties: Theology, Medicine, Canon Law and Arts. Most academic disciplines have their roots in the mid- to late-19th century secularization of universities, when the traditional curricula were supplemented with non-classical languages and literatures, social sciences such as political science, economics and public administration, and natural science and technology disciplines such as physics, chemistry, biolog...