Liberal arts, also known as humanities and social sciences, as its name implies, take the politics, economy and culture unique to human society as the research object.

Liberal arts can be divided into humanities and social sciences. Humanities studies human cultural heritage, and its classic disciplines are literature, history and philosophy. "History" includes history and archaeology.

Liberal arts in universities include politics, economics, law, philosophy, history, literature, art, foreign languages and literature, journalism and communication, anthropology, sociology, ethnology, management, education and so on.

Science refers to natural science and applied science, as opposed to liberal arts.

The main subjects of science are: mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and computer software.