"civilization studies" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the academic discipline that studies the history and culture of human civilisations. For example, "The professor specializes in civilization studies, with a particular focus on ancient Greece."
Culture 4.0 (www.culturalresources.com) is an ambitious Western civilization study guide for the Internet age, for adults as well as for students.
The new curriculum is not organised as a chronological route march through two thousand years of English history, but as a range of units, many of which will look familiar, incorporating six British history studies, one early civilization study, one study of ancient Greece and one non-European study.
In fact, Senator Leland Stanford and his wife, Jane Lathrop Stanford, founded the University "to promote the public welfare by exercising an influence on behalf of humanity and civilization". Studying the theory and practice of education is a way to do exactly that.
I should perhaps declare a special interest here: Jeffrey Eisenach, a member of Gingrich's inner circle and the President of the Progress and Freedom Foundation, which supports the broadcast of "Renewing American Civilization," studied U.S. intellectual and cultural history with me when he was an undergraduate at what was then Claremont Men's College.
"Dirt analysis may not be as sexy as digging up a jade mask from a former Maya king, but now we can answer more questions about the regular people that made up this ancient civilization," study researcher Chris Balzotti, a graduate student at Brigham Young University (BYU), said in a statement.
Rozenn Bailleul-LeSuer, a PhD candidate in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations studying Egyptology, curated "Between Heaven and Earth: Birds in Ancient Egypt," which is on display at the Oriental Institute Museum until July 28 , 2013
And today, the challenge facing humanity appears far more daunting than that facing the individual civilizations studied by Diamond.
But more importantly, learning about the history of civilizations, studying arts and sciences, and developing critical thinking skills is personally empowering; it replaces ignorance and leaves less room for fear and hate.
It offers both the traditional core training in the languages, literature, philosophy, art, and history of ancient Greece and Rome, alongside newer approaches developed from the comparative study of Mediterranean civilizations, peace studies, gender studies, visual and material culture studies, critical theory, and anthropology.
Diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular diseases have been dubbed "diseases of civilization" following studies of their skyrocketing rates in native populations like the Pima Indians of Arizona or native Hawaiians, who traditionally ate a plant-based, high-fiber diet.
