ORDOÑEZ, ROCELYN S.

BS ACCOUNTANCY – 2A

1. Scope of Humanities
 Visual Arts – we perceived with our eyes
 Graphic Arts – painting, drawing, graphic processes, commercial arts. Mechanical
processes and photography.
 Plastic Arts – architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, interior design,
sculptures, crafts, and industrial design.
 Anthropology - e holistic "science of humans", a science of the totality of human
existence. The discipline deals with the integration of different aspects of the social
sciences, humanities and human biology.
 Archaeology - the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis
of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, bio
facts or eco facts, and cultural landscapes.
 Classics - the studies of the cultures of classical antiquity, namely Ancient Greek and
Latin and the Ancient Greek and Roman cultures.
 History – systematically collected information about the past. When used as the name
of a field of study, history refers to the study and interpretation of the record
of humans, societies, institutions, and any topic that has changed over time.
 Linguistics and languages - the study of languages is still central to the humanities.
 Law and politics - The study of law crosses the boundaries between the social
sciences and humanities, depending on one's view of research into its objectives and
effects.
 Literature - a term that does not have a universally accepted definition, but which has
variably included all written work; writing that possesses literary merit; and language
that foregrounds literariness, as opposed to ordinary language.
 Philosophy - is generally the study of problems concerning matters such as existence,
knowledge, justification, truth, justice, right and wrong, beauty, validity, mind, and
language.
 Religion - great variety of religions developed around the world,
with Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism in India, and Zoroastrianism in Persia being
some of the earliest major faiths.
 Performing Arts - differ from the visual arts in so far as the former uses the artist's
own body, face, and presence as a medium, and the latter uses materials such as clay,
metal, or paint, which can be molded or transformed to create some object.
2. Humanities
 Academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture.
 Comes from the Latin word “humanus.”
 Arts – visual arts such as architecture, painting, and sculpture: music, dance, theatre
or drama, and literature.

3. Rationale
 to the underlying reason for something
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