11 sentences with “academic”

Although studying can sometimes be boring, it is important for academic success.

Sociology and academic history were part of a larger innovation in human learning: the social sciences.

She left Chicago suddenly after a year and a half, and not for academic reasons, without getting her diploma.

Her combination of academic and moral seriousness, her industriousness, energy and enthusiasm earned her top marks.

In turn, the study of civilisation has been the traditional focus of history, as an academic discipline, since the late 19th century.

As academic fields became more specialised throughout the 19th century, history became identified as the study of the past based on written artefacts.

Another German, Leopold von Ranke, created the first truly systematic forms of historical research, in turn creating the academic discipline of history itself.

In 1901, the University of Vienna commissioned the artist Gustav Klimt to create paintings celebrating the three great branches of traditional academic scholarship: philosophy, medicine and law.

Newton was the president of the Royal Society, which published Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, the forerunner of the academic journals that remain the backbone of scholarship today.

In the late 19th century, a Frenchman (Emile Durkheim) and a German (Max Weber) independently initiated the academic discipline that would become sociology: the systematic study of the behaviour of people in complex societies.

This use of primary sources remains the defining characteristic of history as an academic discipline: professional historians must seek out writings and artefacts from their areas of study and use them as the basis for their own interpretations.