<P> Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture . In the renaissance, the term contrasted with divinity and referred to what is now called classics, the main area of secular study in universities at the time . Today, the humanities are more frequently contrasted with natural, and sometimes social, sciences as well as professional training . </P> <P> The humanities use methods that are primarily critical, or speculative, and have a significant historical element--as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences, yet, unlike the sciences, it has no central discipline . The humanities include ancient and modern languages, literature, philosophy, geography, history, religion, art and musicology . </P> <P> Scholars in the humanities are "humanity scholars" or humanists . The term "humanist" also describes the philosophical position of humanism, which some "antihumanist" scholars in the humanities refuse . The Renaissance scholars and artists were also called humanists . Some secondary schools offer humanities classes usually consisting of English literature, global studies and art . </P>

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