BRANCHES OF

HUMANITIES
 THE
HISTORY ARTS

LITERATURE
HUMANITIES RELIGION

LANGUAGE PHILOSOPHY
HISTORY
 • A chronological
record of significant
events (as affecting a
HISTORY nation or institution)
often including an
explanation of their
causes
Includes:

•Political
•Social
•Economical
•Cultural
LITERATURE
 A highly
ambiguous term: at
its broadest, it can
mean any sequence of
LITERATURE words that has been
preserved for
transmission in some
form or other
Includes:

• Drama • Short story

• Novel • Poetry
LANGUAGE
 • philosophy of language

•  investigates the nature

of language

LINGUISTICS • Investigations may include

inquiry into the nature of
meaning, intentionality,
reference, the constitution
of sentences, concepts,
learning, and thought.
PHILOSOPHY
 • Generally the study of human
behavior or problems
concerning matters such as
existence, knowledge,
justification, truth, justice,
right and wrong, beauty,
validity, mind, language and
PHILOSOPHY the age-old questions such as
the meaning of life and the
existence of God.
• analyzes various cultures and
their religious beliefs as well
as moral codes.
 Main Fields
of Philosophy

• Aesthetics
• Epistemology • Ethics
• Logic
• Metaphysics
RELIGION
 • concerned with the
philosophical study of religion,
including arguments over
the nature and existence of
God, religious language,
RELIGION miracles, prayer, the problem
of evil, and the relationship
between religion and
other value-systems such as
science and ethics
PERFORMING ARTS
 • uses the artist's own body,
face, and presence as a
medium

PERFORMING • include acrobatics,

ARTS busking, comedy, dance,
magic, music, opera, film,
juggling, marching arts,
such as brass bands, and
theatre.
Includes:

• Music
• Theater
• Dance
VISUAL ARTS
 • art forms that can be seen such
VISUAL as painting, drawing,
printmaking, sculpture, ceramics,
ARTS photography, video, filmmaking,
design, crafts, and architecture.