UL Lafayette: Sociology/Anthropology: Welcome

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Welcome

The Department of Sociology and Anthropology is made up of very active faculty, staff, and student members. The Department is home to the Center for Archaeological Studies, the Center for Socioeconomic Research, and the Regional Archaeologist for Southwest Louisiana. The Department also supports and houses the interdisciplinary journal Deviant Behavior and takes pride in the activities of both the Sociology Club and the Anthropological and Archaeological Society of UL Lafayette.

We offer bachelor's degrees in both Sociology and Anthropology and currently have 200 sociology majors and 77 anthropology majors. Faculty members are professionally active scholars who have authored several books, numerous articles, and scores of papers and research reports over the past 20 years. Students are encouraged to work with faculty members on research and writing projects and have opportunities to intern in numerous social service agencies in the area. Our department also supports the campus-wide service-learning initiative by offering courses containing service-learning modules.

If you are curious about human behavior, if you are a "people watcher" and enjoy finding out why and how people do things, then you should be "at home" as a sociology or anthropology major.

Sociologists have devised numerous techniques for gathering and analyzing data related to human behavior. Sociologists are employed in business, industry and government at the local, state and national levels to collect and analyze data important to social planning and policy making. Sociology majors also find work in a variety of social service agencies.

Likewise, anthropologists and archaeologists continue to provide new insights into our origins, our recent past, and numerous exciting cultures. For the past several decades anthropologists have been sought after to assist with the nation's conservation efforts and to protect and manage our cultural resources at state and national parks, and on other public and private lands. Anthropology majors, too, find work in social service agencies.

Learn more about anthropology and sociology.

Document last revised Thursday, July 8, 2004 11:35 AM