humanistic discipline

Noun

1.

humanistic discipline - studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills); "the college of arts and sciences" Synonyms: arts, humanities, liberal arts

art history, arts, bailiwick, beaux arts, branch of knowledge, chronology, classicism, discipline, English, field, field of study, fine arts, history, humanities, liberal arts, library science, linguistics, literary study, musicology, neoclassicism, Occidentalism, Oriental Studies, Orientalism, performing arts, philology, philosophy, romanticism, Sinology, stemmatics, stemmatology, study, subject, subject area, subject field