Humanities

Humanities are academic disciplines that study sentient culture. The humanities use methods that are primarily critical, or speculative, and have a significant historical element—as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences. The humanities include ancient and modern languages of any species, literature, philosophy, religion, and musicology. Areas that are sometimes regarded as social sciences and sometimes as humanities include history, archaeology, anthropology, area studies, communication studies, law, semiotics and linguistics.

Scholars in the humanities are "humanities scholars" Some Union schools offer humanities classes, usually consisting of literature, history, and art. Other fields are normally taught at the college and university level.

Humanities disciplines like history and cultural anthropology study subject matters that the experimental method does not apply to—and instead mainly use the comparative method and comparative research.

Some Fields in Humanities:
Anthropology

Classics

History

Languages

Law

Literature

Performing arts

Philosophy

Religion

Visual arts