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WKU Archives: Disciplines

Links to WKU Archives sources by creator, subject and graduating classes.

Digital Commons

Digital Commons Networks hosts TopSCHOLAR, WKU's digital depository of records in many formats as they do for many other universities and cultural repositories around the world.  Digital Commons implements a discipline tagging system to help categorize the items posted regardless of creator.  Below you will find the discipline tags used by WKU Archives records available on TopSCHOLAR with links to KenCat (left) and Digital Commons (right). 

These disciplines may be useful in creating assignments for students using WKU Archives materials. 

Disciplines - KenCat

  • Accessibility
  • Accounting
  • Acting
  • Adult and Continuing Education
  • Adult and Continuing Education Administration
  • Advertising and Promotion Management
  • Aeronautical Vehicles
  • Aerospace Engineering
  • African American Studies
  • African Studies
  • Agricultural Education
  • Agriculture
  • Agronomy & Crop Sciences
  • American Film Studies
  • American Material Culture
  • American Politics
  • American Popular Culture
  • American Studies
  • Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment
  • Animal Sciences
  • Anthropology
  • Appalachian Studies
  • Aquaculture and Fishing
  • Archaeological Anthropology
  • Architectural Engineering
  • Architecture
  • Archival Science
  • Art and Design
  • Art Practice
  • Arts and Humanities
  • Asian American Studies
  • Asian Studies
  • Astrophysics and Astronomy
  • Aviation
  • Biblical Studies
  • Biology
  • Botany
  • Broadcast and Video Studies
  • Business
  • Business Administration, Management, and Operations
  • Cataloging and Metadata
  • Catholic Studies
  • Chemistry
  • Chinese Studies
  • Christian Denominations and Sects
  • Christianity
  • Civic and Community Engagement
  • Civil and Environment Engineering
  • Civil Engineering
  • Classics
  • Climate
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Collection Development and Management
  • Communication
  • Communication Sciences and Disorders
  • Community College Leadership
  • Community Health and Preventive Medicine
  • Composition
  • Computer Sciences
  • Construction Engineering
  • Counseling
  • Creative Writing
  • Criminology and Criminal Justice
  • Cultural Resource Management and Policy Analysis
  • Curriculum and Instruction
  • Dairy Science
  • Dance
  • Dental Hygiene
  • Dental Public Health and Education
  • Dentistry
  • Disability and Equity in Education
  • Early Childhood Education
  • Earth Sciences
  • Economics
  • Education
  • Education Law
  • Education Policy
  • Educational Administration and Supervision
  • Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Research
  • Educational Psychology
  • Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Elementary and Middle and Secondary Education Administration
  • Elementary Education
  • Elementary Education and Teaching
  • Engineering
  • English Language and Literature
  • Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations
  • Environmental Design
  • Environmental Sciences
  • Environmental Studies
  • Ethnic Studies
  • Exercise Science
  • Experimental Analysis of Behavior
  • Family, Life Course, and Society
  • Fashion Business
  • Fashion Design
  • Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
  • Fiber, Textile, and Weaving Arts
  • Fiction
  • Finance and Financial Management
  • Folklore
  • Food and Beverage Management
  • Furniture Design
  • Gender and Sexuality
  • Gender, Race, Sexuality Studies and Ethnicity in Communication
  • Genealogy
  • Geographic Information Sciences
  • Geography
  • Geology
  • Geriatric Nursing
  • Geriatrics
  • German Language and Literature
  • Gifted Education
  • Graphic Design
  • Health and Physical Education
  • Health Information Technology
  • Health Services Administration
  • Higher Education
  • Higher Education Administration
  • Historic Preservation and Conservation
  • History
  • Home Economics
  • Horticulture
  • Hospitality Administration and Management
  • Human Resources Management
  • Hydrology
  • Illustration
  • Indigenous Studies
  • Industrial and Product Design
  • Industrial Technology
  • Inequality and Stratification
  • Intellectual History
  • Interior Architecture
  • International and Area Studies
  • International Relations
  • Islamic Studies
  • Journalism Studies
  • Junior High, Intermediate, Middle School Education and Teaching
  • Kinesiology
  • Landscape Architecture
  • Language and Literacy Education
  • Latin American Studies
  • Law
  • Law and Gender
  • Law and Race
  • Law Enforcement and Corrections
  • Leadership Studies
  • Legal Studies
  • Leisure Studies
  • Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies
  • Library and Information Science
  • Life Sciences
  • Literature in English, North America
  • Literature in English, North America, Ethnic and Cultural Minority
  • Manufacturing 
  • Marine Biology
  • Marketing
  • Mass Communication
  • Mathematics
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Medical Education
  • Medical Specialties
  • Medicine and Health Sciences
  • Mental and Social Health
  • Meteorology
  • Military and Veteran Studies
  • Military History
  • Mining Engineering
  • Mormon Studies
  • Museum Studies
  • Music
  • Music Education
  • Music Performance
  • Music Practice
  • Music Theory
  • Natural Resource Economics
  • Natural Resources and Conservation
  • Natural Resources Management and Policy
  • Near and Middle Eastern Studies
  • Nonfiction
  • Nonprofit Administration and Management
  • Nuclear Engineering
  • Nursing
  • Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene
  • Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology
  • Oil, Gas, Energy
  • Online and Distance Education
  • Operations Research, Systems Engineering & Industrial Engineering
  • Oral History
  • Organizational Communication
  • Ornithology
  • Other History
  • Other Political Science
  • Painting
  • Performance Studies
  • Philosophy
  • Photography
  • Physical Sciences and Mathematics
  • Physical Therapy
  • Physics
  • Plant Sciences
  • Playwriting
  • Poetry
  • Political History
  • Political Science
  • Politics and Social Change
  • Preventive Medicine
  • Printmaking
  • Property Law and Real Estate
  • Psychiatric and Mental Health
  • Psychology
  • Public Administration
  • Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration
  • Public Health
  • Public Health Education and Promotion
  • Public History
  • Public Relations and Advertising
  • Publishing
  • Race and Ethnicity
  • Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies
  • Radio
  • Radiology
  • Reading and Language
  • Real Estate
  • Recreation, Parks and Tourism Administration
  • Recreational Therapy
  • Regional Sociology
  • Rehabilitation and Therapy
  • Religion
  • Rhetoric
  • Rhetoric and Composition
  • Rural Sociology
  • Science and Mathematics Education
  • Sculpture
  • Secondary Education
  • Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Social and Cultural Anthropology
  • Social History
  • Social Influence and Political Communication
  • Social Work
  • Sociology
  • Space Vehicles
  • Special Education Administration
  • Special Education and Teaching
  • Speech and Rhetorical Studies
  • Speech Pathology and Audiology
  • Speleology
  • Sports Management
  • Sports Studies
  • Student Counseling and Personnel Services
  • Sustainability
  • Teacher Education and Professional Development
  • Television
  • The Sun and the Solar System
  • Theatre and Performance Studies
  • Theatre History
  • Tourism
  • Tourism and Travel
  • Training and Development
  • Transportation
  • Transportation Engineering
  • United States History
  • University Extension
  • Urban Studies
  • Urban Studies and Planning
  • Urban, Community and Regional Planning
  • Vocational Education
  • Water Resource Management
  • Women's History
  • Women's Studies

Disciplines - Digital Commons