humanities的意思|humanities的解释-里氏词典

humanities

n. 人文学科

humanities

[ noun ]
studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)
<noun.cognition>
the college of arts and sciences

Humanity \Hu*man"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Humanities}. [L. humanitas: cf.
F. humanit['e]. See {Human}.]
1. The quality of being human; the peculiar nature of man, by
which he is distinguished from other beings.

2. Mankind collectively; the human race.

But hearing oftentimes
The still, and music humanity. --Wordsworth.

It is a debt we owe to humanity. --S. S. Smith.

3. The quality of being humane; the kind feelings,
dispositions, and sympathies of man; especially, a
disposition to relieve persons or animals in distress, and
to treat all creatures with kindness and tenderness. ``The
common offices of humanity and friendship.'' --Locke.

4. Mental cultivation; liberal education; instruction in
classical and polite literature.

Polished with humanity and the study of witty
science. --Holland.

5. pl. (With definite article) The branches of polite or
elegant learning; as language, rhetoric, poetry, and the
ancient classics; belles-letters.

Note: The cultivation of the languages, literature, history,
and arch[ae]ology of Greece and Rome, were very
commonly called liter[ae] humaniores, or, in English,
the humanities, . . . by way of opposition to the
liter[ae] divin[ae], or divinity. --G. P. Marsh.

Berkeley started rumbling in March when the campus newspaper, the Daily Californian, reported that Citibank was denying credit cards to older students and to certain humanities majors.
The humanities policy surfaced last week when Irene Chang, a reporter for the independent campus newspaper, The Daily Californian, asked a campus bank-card canvasser how to apply.
General requirements in the humanities area rose an average of 1.5 hours from 1983-84 to 1988-89 _ a 6.2 percent increase, according to the study of course requirements at 496 colleges and universities.
In assessing the academic approach to the humanities, the report says: "Viewing humanities texts as though they were primarily political documents is the most noticeable trend in academic study of the humanities today.
In assessing the academic approach to the humanities, the report says: "Viewing humanities texts as though they were primarily political documents is the most noticeable trend in academic study of the humanities today.
In assessing the academic approach to the humanities, the report says: "Viewing humanities texts as though they were primarily political documents is the most noticeable trend in academic study of the humanities today.
Compromise language in the measure would prohibit the national endowments for the arts and humanities from funding work or exhibits that may be considered obscene.
A growing number of Americans are buying books, visiting museums and joining cultural groups, but enrollment in college humanities courses has fallen drastically in the past 20 years, a government report said Sunday.
I'd had two jobs in government, humanities chairman and secretary of education.
The National Endowment for the Humanities is a federal agency promoting research and education in the humanities.
Guilt and shame over the humanities' failure to take proper cognizance of women, minorities and the disenfranchised has created an animus toward traditional aesthetic and historical surveys.
"The last few decades have really seen a kind of merger of a technical tradition in the humanities.
She declared a double major of English literature and humanities, and she thrived.
They are: _Adele Chatfield-Taylor, president of the American Academy in Rome, which awards 30 fellowships each year to Americans for independent study of the arts and humanities in Italy.
Some of the most illiberal thinking of the era is to be found in so-called humanities and liberal arts departments, where dissenting views seem to be treated with the same compassion that the medieval church granted to heresy.
Science students at the California Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology devote about 20% of their studies to the humanities; humanities students should devote no less a portion of their studies to science.
Science students at the California Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology devote about 20% of their studies to the humanities; humanities students should devote no less a portion of their studies to science.
"Rather are the humanities the elder brother of the sciences, who sees how the new scientist got his tail in a crack when he takes on the human subject as object and who even shows him the shape of a new science." Thursday is "Tax Freedom Day."
Mr. Coles is professor of psychiatry and medical humanities at Harvard.
Baker took over operation of the mountain retreat center from Lindisfarne, founded by New York writer William Thompson to study religion and the humanities.
"I wish there were more of the controversial projects," Keillor told the Senate Labor and Human Resources subcommittee on education, arts and humanities.
Galbraith, a professor at Harvard University, was honored for "his services in the development of sciences and the humanities," the official Tass news agency said.
On the domestic side, in the arts and humanities, the foundation aims to "foster international understanding and improve the teaching" of the subjects in the public schools, Mr. Karel added.
It includes Donald Kagan, dean of Yale College, and distinguished historian Gertrude Himmelfarb, who is delivering this year's Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, which is sponsored by the humanities endowment.
For example, there are few blacks in the humanities and even fewer in the sciences, where the caliber of students is much higher and the standards more rigorous and demanding than in, say, most education departments.
Shortages of doctorate degrees in the humanities and social sciences will occur even sooner, said the report.
The 39-year-old composer and performer will receive an honorary doctor of humanities degree from the university.

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