Words: area studies
Part of speech: n
Definition: an interdisciplinary field of research and scholarship pertaining to a particular geographical, national/federal, or cultural region.
Example: Other large and important programs followed Ford's—most notably, the National Defense Education Act of 1957, renamed the Higher Education Act in 1965, which allocated funding for some 125 university-based area studies units known as National Resource Center programs at U.S. universities, as well as for Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowships for graduate students.