Interdiscipline
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The term interdiscipline or inter-discipline means a course of study or an organizational unit that involves two or more academic discipline
s. As shown in the example of demography below a field may be both a discipline and an interdiscipline at the same time. The example of Information science demonstrates that a field may be a discipline in some countries but an interdiscipline in other countries.
Academic discipline
An academic discipline, or field of study, is a branch of knowledge that is taught and researched at the college or university level. Disciplines are defined , and recognized by the academic journals in which research is published, and the learned societies and academic departments or faculties to...
s. As shown in the example of demography below a field may be both a discipline and an interdiscipline at the same time. The example of Information science demonstrates that a field may be a discipline in some countries but an interdiscipline in other countries.
Examples
- Biosemiotics
- Demography
- “As a field with its own body of interrelated concepts, techniques, journals, and professional associations, demography is clearly a discipline. But by the nature of its subject matter and methods demography is just as clearly an ‘interdiscipline’, drawing heavily on biology and sociology for the study of fertility; on economics and geography for studies of migration; and on the health sciences for the study of mortality.” (Stycos, 1989, vii).
- Forensic Kinesiology
- Genetic toxicology
- Humor and translation
- Information science
- In America is information scienceInformation science-Introduction:Information science is an interdisciplinary science primarily concerned with the analysis, collection, classification, manipulation, storage, retrieval and dissemination of information...
and communication studiesCommunication studiesCommunication Studies is an academic field that deals with processes of communication, commonly defined as the sharing of symbols over distances in space and time. Hence, communication studies encompasses a wide range of topics and contexts ranging from face-to-face conversation to speeches to mass...
considered two academic disciplineAcademic disciplineAn academic discipline, or field of study, is a branch of knowledge that is taught and researched at the college or university level. Disciplines are defined , and recognized by the academic journals in which research is published, and the learned societies and academic departments or faculties to...
s. In France, however, they are considered one interdiscipline. (See also ).
- Public Health
- Social science in agriculture .
- Sociolinguistics