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In the humanities and social sciences, area studies are interdisciplinary fields of research and scholarship pertaining to a particular geographical, national/federal, or cultural region. The term exists primarily as a general description for what are, in the practice of scholarship, many heterogeneous fields of research. Area studies often involve the disciplines of history, political science, sociology, cultural studies, languages, geography, literature, and other fields. Interdisciplinary area studies became increasingly popular in the United States and Western scholarship after World War II. Fields are defined differently from university to university, and from department to department, but common area-studies fields include:

African studies
- Egyptology

American studies (in the United States this has traditionally referred primarily to North America and especially the U.S.)

Latin American studies

Chicano studies

Asian studies

European studies

Byzantine studies
Classical studies
Celtic studies (includes Irish, Scottish & Welsh studies)
Dutch studies
German studies
Romance studies
Scandinavian studies
Slavic studies

Oceania

Other interdisciplinary research fields such as women's studies (also known as gender studies), and ethnic studies (including African American studies, Asian American studies, Latino/a studies, and Native American studies) are not part of area studies but are sometimes included in discussion along with it.
   Some entire institutions of higher education (tertiary education) are devoted solely to area studies such as School of Oriental and African Studies, part of the University of London, or the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies in Japan.
   Contrast the term cultural studies. Area studies (eg Scottish and Irish studies) often include diaspora and emigration from the area studied.

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