Humanities:
Studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills. The branches of learning (as philosophy, arts, or
languages) that investigate human constructs and concerns as opposed to natural processes (as in physics or chemistry) and
social relations (as in anthropology or economics)
History:
A systematic, written account of events, particularly of those affecting a nation, institution, science,
or art, and usually connected with a philosophical explanation of their causes; a true story, as distinguished from a romance;
-- distinguished also from annals, which relate simply the facts and events of each year, in strict chronological order; from
biography, which is the record of an individual's life; and from memoir, which is history composed from personal experience,
observation, and memory.
Art:
Human efforts to imitate, supplement, alter, or counteract the work of nature.
The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colors, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects
the sense of beauty, specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium.
Literature:
The body of written works of a language, period, or culture. Imaginative or creative writing, especially of recognized
artistic value.
Society:
An extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization. Also a formal association of people with
similar interests.
Culture:
The integrated pattern of human behavior that includes thought, speech, action, and artifacts and depends upon the human
capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations
Socioeconomic:
Involving social as well as economic factors.
Film:
A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.
History, art, literature, society, culture, socioeconomic, and film are all intertwined with humanities. They are intertwined
due to the nature of humanities as defined above. Every culture has its own history, forms of art and film, types of societies
and literature, as well as their own socioeconomic models. Thus, the study of humanities enables people to better understand
other cultures.