10 sentences with 'academic'
Example sentences and phrases with the word academic and other words derived from it.
• « Her combination of academic and moral seriousness, her industriousness, energy and enthusiasm earned her top marks. »
• « She left Chicago suddenly after a year and a half, and not for academic reasons, without getting her diploma. »
• « 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. »
• « 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. »
• « 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. »
• « Another German, Leopold von Ranke, created the first truly systematic forms of historical research, in turn creating the academic discipline of history itself. »
• « Sociology and academic history were part of a larger innovation in human learning: the social sciences. »
• « 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. »