Humanities, natural sciences and social sciences are the three pillars of university education. As one of them, humanities keeps pace with natural science and social science, and each has its own advantages. This paper will discuss from the aspects of the backbone of humanities, the fields covered, and the differences between humanities and social sciences.

Backbone: literature, history, philosophy and art.

The backbone of humanities includes literature, history, philosophy, art and other fields. These disciplines take human culture, history, thought and art as the research objects, covering a wide range and deep depth.

Covers a wide range of fields

In addition to the main fields, humanities also cover modern and classical languages, linguistics, archaeology and other fields, even those based on humanitarian research. Research in these fields will help us better understand human culture and history.

The difference with social science.

A simple way to distinguish between "humanities" and "social sciences" in college liberal arts is that those disciplines that are not practical, profitable and relatively unpopular, such as economics and law, usually belong to "social sciences", while others are mostly "humanities". This is not to say that the humanities are useless, but because its research objects and methods are different from those of social sciences.