Disciplines and interdisciplinarity
Historically, academic disciplines were defined through the departments within which they were taught at universities, with the same subject separation mirrored in the UK school system. For example, history and biology are single academic disciplines that are also taught as single subjects in schools, falling within the higher-level humanities and sciences faculties, respectively. However, what is and what is not an academic discipline becomes increasingly hard to define when academic departments spanning a range of subject areas exist, such as ours – the Department of Theatre, Film, Television and Interactive Media (TFTI) at the University of York. You could argue that TFTI is an arts department. But the way we teach, the manner in which we conduct our research and the backgrounds of the academics within TFTI mean that we could also be considered a humanities, science and engineering department. We offer four undergraduate degrees (BA business
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