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  2. Humanities - Wikipedia

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    Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture, including certain fundamental questions asked by humans.During the Renaissance, the term "humanities" referred to the study of classical literature and language, as opposed to the study of religion, or "divinity".

  3. Arts and letters - Wikipedia

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    The institution, however, has undergone many changes over the last century and is now a 300-member honorary society dedicated to literature, music and art. 'Arts and Letters' can be studied at collegiate institutions [3] across North America. The study is made available in a bachelor's degree, honors, master's, and doctorate program each with ...

  4. The arts - Wikipedia

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    The arts are considered various practices or objects done by people with skill, creativity, and imagination across cultures and history, viewed as a group. [1] These activities include painting, sculpture, music, theatre, literature, and more. [2] Art refers to the way of doing or applying human creative skills, typically in visual form. [3] [4]

  5. Wikipedia : Contents/Culture and the arts

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    Classical studies – branch of the Humanities comprising the languages, literature, philosophy, history, art, archaeology and all other cultural elements of the ancient Mediterranean world (Bronze Age ca. BC 3000 – Late Antiquity ca. AD 300–600); especially Ancient Greece and Rome.

  6. Outline of the humanities - Wikipedia

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    National Endowment for the Humanities – independent federal agency of the United States established by the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities. President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities – established in ...

  7. Humanities, arts, and social sciences - Wikipedia

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    Pictographic representation of Adam and Eve. Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS) (or Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, AHSS), also known as social studies, is a broad term that groups together the academic disciplines of humanities, arts and social sciences.

  8. Wikipedia:Contents/Outlines/Culture and the arts - Wikipedia

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    Classical studies – branch of the Humanities comprising the languages, literature, philosophy, history, art, archaeology and all other cultural elements of the ancient Mediterranean world (Bronze Age ca. BC 3000 – Late Antiquity ca. AD 300–600); especially Ancient Greece and Rome.

  9. List of people considered a founder in a humanities field

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    Subject Father / mother Reason African-American history: Arturo Alfonso Schomburg [54]: For his "[research and raising] awareness of the great contributions that Afro-Latin Americans and African Americans have made to society,...[being] an important intellectual figure in the Harlem Renaissance [and, over] the years, [collecting] literature, art, slave narratives, and other materials of ...