UL Lafayette: Sociology/Anthropology: Welcome

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African & African American Studies

Welcome

The Department of Sociology and Anthropology which includes the Child & Family Studies Program provides insight into why and how people do things while offering students a view of human origins, exciting cultures (past and present) and competencies in various areas of family life education. If you are curious about human behavior and if you are a people watcher, then you should be "at home" in this department.

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 and the Student Louisiana Early Childhood Association (SLAECA).

The Department currently has approximately 200 Sociology majors, 77 Anthropology majors and 300 Child & Family Studies majors. Faculty members are professionally active scholars who have authored books, numerous articles, and scores of papers and research reports over the past 25 years. Students are encouraged to work with faculty members on research and writing projects and have opportunities to intern in numerous social service agencies as well as assist in the Nursery School. Our department also supports the campus wide service-learning initiative by offering courses containing service-learning modules.

Learn more about the following curricula in our department:

Sociology---Sociologist have devised numerous techniques for gathering and analyzing data related to human behavior. 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 level.

Anthropology---Anthropologists and Archaeologists have been sought after to assist with forensics and 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.

Child & Family Studies---In addition to combining course work and classroom activity with hands-on experience in the UL Lafayette Nursery School Lab, students are given the opportunity to apply for a Provisional Certified Family Life Educator credential.

Document last revised Thursday, February 25, 2010 3:20 PM