Humanities, arts, and social sciences (HASS) is a broad term used to group together the academic disciplines of

humanities 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 t ...

arts The arts are a very wide range of human practices of creative expression, storytelling and cultural participation. They encompass multiple diverse and plural modes of thinking, doing and being, in an extremely broad range of media. Both ...

and

social sciences Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the field of sociology, the original "science of so ...

. It is used as an academic counterpart to

science, technology, engineering, and mathematics Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is an umbrella term used to group together the distinct but related technical disciplines of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The term is typically used in the context of ...

in the United States, Canada, Australia, and other countries. HASS graduates comprise the majority of the workforce in many developed countries (e.g. 64% in Australia). However
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often receive a lower governmental funding and can have lower reputation within universities. There is a measured relationship between citizens' HASS awareness with more accurate threat perceptions, high community activity, and cultural engagement at the local level. In recent years, a return to a holistic reintegration of HASS and STEM disciplines has been promoted in the U.S. by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Mathematics ( NASEM). In the Philippines, a similar term called Humanities and Social Sciences is used to describe a Senior High Strand that involves the Liberal Arts. This strand was set up in place as part of the K-12 program that was implemented in the country. In 2020 an initiative for the UK rebranded the HASS acronym for humanities, the arts and social sciences as

SHAPE A shape or figure is a graphical representation of an object or its external boundary, outline, or external surface, as opposed to other properties such as color, texture, or material type. A plane shape or plane figure is constrained to lie ...

, Social Sciences, Humanities and the Arts for People and the Economy, to promote and highlight the importance of these subjects in education, society and the economy.

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