"fundamental discipline" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it to refer to something like a basic poise or code of conduct that is essential to a certain activity, e.g. "Equestrian sports require a fundamental discipline from both horse and rider."
And exploit the fascinating and fundamental discipline of Nuclear Science and Engineering to produce amazing new products and inventions.
Nuclear Science and Engineering NSEE) is based on a fundamental discipline which is easily distinguishable from other forms of engineering.
From its beginnings in the late 19th century, the program stressed design as the fundamental discipline in architecture education.
WASHINGTON — A new revelation of young American soldiers caught on camera while defiling insurgents' remains in Afghanistan has intensified questions within the military community about whether fundamental discipline is breaking down given the nature and length of the war.
Because of this, psychology becomes a fundamental discipline of this philosophical congeries.
Philosophers have sometimes argued that one of these fields is "first philosophy", the most fundamental discipline, on which all philosophy or all knowledge or wisdom rests.
Oil and gas industry use the fundamental disciplines of chemistry and physics, and also require specialists in petroleum engineering, geology, geophysics, environmental science, geochemistry, and chemical engineering.
This paper is based upon the understanding that fundamental disciplines of human knowledge such as chemistry, ecology, sociology, geology, economics, engineering or politics, cannot, by themselves, provide the sufficient and necessary solutions to complex problems of sustainability.
As the wide spectrum of graduate research in EECS at MIT reflects, many advances in electrical engineering and computer science leverage important connections to one or more of mathematics, physics, statistics, materials science, chemistry, biology, medicine, neuroscience, and other fundamental disciplines.
Three disciplines, History, Chinese and Biology are personnel training and scientific research bases of the national fundamental disciplines of arts and sciences.
In 2003, UC accepted a Senate board recommendation to adopt tests covering fundamental disciplines — language arts, math and writing — that are demonstrably related to college work and can help diagnose student strengths and weaknesses.
