An area of human knowledge, e.g. history, geography, physics or geology, which has been developed, often in universities, as a separate subject area for purposes of teaching and research. A discipline would be associated with learned journals,...

An area of scholarship based either upon a field of practice or on a sub-division of...

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An academic discipline, or field of study, is a branch of knowledge which is taught or researched at the college or university level. Disciplines are defined and recognised by the academic journals in which research is published, and the learned...