Area studies

The Regional Science (also: regional studies; rare: Areal sciences ) dealing with society, culture and history of each case of a particular region of the world and their languages, their associated literatures and linguistic analysis. In addition, the current policy plays a significant role. So you are generally characterized by a strong interdisciplinary and can be attributed to cultural studies.

Significant regional studies that are offered at many universities as autonomous subjects are, eg, Chinese Studies, Japanese Studies, Indology, Vietnamistik, Southeast Asian Studies, African Studies, Korean Studies or Scandinavian. In the study of language acquisition regularly takes an outstanding position.

A distinction must philology, such as English, which deals specifically with the English language and literature, as it is a regional science in the above-mentioned sense in American Studies.