Student: Excuse me, Professor. Have you got a minute?

Reading 3.2.
Academician Fields
Dialogue

Student: Excuse me, Professor. Have you got a minute?
Professor: Yes. What can I do for you?
St.: I’d like to get some information about academic fields.
Prof.: Generally speaking, academic fields are courses which offerd, at least by master’s
degrees of most of largest universities in the world. Acadevic fields have several
sub-disciplines or branches, like social sciences, exat sciences, natural sciences,
humanities and applied sciences. For example, Chemistry, Physics, Earth and space
Sciences are regarded as the branches of natural sciences, which clarify the rules that
regulate the natural world through scientific methods.They are evaluated by data. Formal
sciences like Mathematics,Computer Science,Statisticsand Logic, study formal
systems, which characterize abstruct structures.
St.: Can you explainthe difference between humanities and social sciences?
Prof.: Humanitarian sciences or humanities are disciplenes concerned with human
culture using methods that mainly study theoretical and critical issues. They include
Philosophy, History, Linguistics, Lliterature and Performing Arts, such as, Music
and Theatre. Social sciences study society and the relationships among individuals
within a society. Mainly they depend on practical approaches. Social sciences include
Economics, Sociology, Psychology and Political Sciences.
St.: Which academic fieldscan be includedin applied sciences ?
Prof.: Law, Agriculture, Engineering, Medical Sciences, Environmental Sciences,
Business, Education, etc. can be included in applied sciences. Applied sciences
focus on scientific knowledge related to practical use.
St.: Who made more contribution to these fields in our country ? Men or Women?
Prof.: In fact science has been a field dominated by men, women encountered discrimination
in science. During the XXth century, women were employed actively and the number
of female scientists increased. In science, women made great achievements 50-40 yers ago,
for example: Umidova Z.I. (Medicine), Aminova R..Kh. (History), Rashidova S. Sh.(Chemistry),
who afterwards became Professors and Academicians, in their fields. Nowadays
7 women Academicians, and about 500 Doctors of Science are carrying out their activities
who are considered to be the pride of our nation. 13 of these active and devoted women
were awarded the Order “hero of Uzbekistan”.