Anthropology is part of the HSS 3+3 Pre-Law Program, which allows LSU students to receive a bachelor’s degree and law degree in six years rather than taking the traditional route of seven years. For more information, visit www.lsu.edu/prelaw.
Understanding the Program
The LSU Department of Geography & Anthropology is a national leader in archaeology, forensics, collaborative ethnography, linguistics, and more.
About You
Interested in exploring the relations of nature and culture? As an anthropology student, you will obtain a unique perspective along with a set of technical skills to help equip you to navigate through many career directions, often combining your knowledge of human-environment relationships with theories of culture and society. While many students continue on to graduate work, others head straight to the workforce and become globally competitive employees.
Course Offerings
Anthropologists study humankind, past and present, pulling on expertise in fields ranging from biology to sociology. You will have the opportunity to take courses in the sciences, social sciences, and the humanities.
Students will focus their studies in these four areas:
- Biological anthropology: using human skeletal remains to study human evolution, variation, health, disease, and death through time (includes forensic anthropology)
- Cultural anthropology: study of the cultural aspects of human existence and society
- Archaeology: description of daily lives and social structures of past cultures through excavation of sites and analysis of material culture (artifacts)
- Linguistic anthropology: study of language and its relationships to human existence and society