Academic fields

Academic fields

In general, an academic discipline or field signifies an area of knowledge which is taught at the College or at the University. Initially titles of curriculum were linked in German Universities during the 19th century. These sciences were approved and accepted in other countries step by step in the beginning of the 20^th century. Consequently, they became the traditional standard subjects. Obviously, these sciences included physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy, which are nowadays considered to be the oldest academic disciplines.

Academic fields develop as a result of discoveries or explorations made in different spheres of science. In fact, all of them are interrelated.Academic disciplines can be categorized as following: social sciences, exact sciences, natural sciences, humanities and applied sciences. Each discipline usually has several sub-disciplines or branches, and the differentiatim boundaries of these disciplines are often casual and indefinite. For example, economics can be included in social sciences.

Uzbekistan has also a rich history in scientific area. It has contributed to the development of the world science. Significant scholars of the state developed several new ideas in a variety of academic fields¹.

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DISCUSSION

1.Discuss the following questions with your partner.

1. 
   What academic fields are the most useful for human development?
   
2. 
   Which academic sciences are considered to be the most complicated to study?
   

2. 
   Listen to the tape. Fill in the blanks with appropriate words or phrases.
   

1. 
   Academic fields have several subdisciplines or branches, like social sciences, exact sciences, natural sciences, humanities and applied sciences.
   
2. 
   For example, chemistry, physics, earth and space sciences are
   

as the branches of natural sciences, which

Considered to be the rules that regulate the natural

world through scientific methods.

3. 
   They are accepted and approved by data.
   
4. 
   Formal sciences like mathematics, computer science, statistics and logic, study formal systems, which included abstract structures.
   
5. 
   Humanitarian sciences or humanities are the
   

disciplines with human culture,

using methods that mainly study theoretical and critical issues.

6. 
   Mainly they depend on practical spheres.
   
7. 
   Applied sciences exploration on scientific knowledge
   

related to practical use.

8. 
   Science has been a field by men,
   

women encountered in science.

1^Scale Up. The authors. Tashkent – 2015. P.9