You enjoy uncovering our past to understand our future, and you don’t mind getting your hands dirty.Find great adventure in anthropology at LSU. Areas of study include archaeology, cultural anthropology, folklore, physical anthropology, and anthropological linguistics. You can participate firsthand in meaningful research, ranging from studies of contemporary communities to archaeological digs, that can have a real impact on the world.A Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) is offered in anthropology. Because it is a broad study of people, students majoring in anthropology are urged to take courses in the sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities.Some areas of interest are: Aerial photography, African diaspora, archeology, atmosphere, climate change, climate variability, climatology, coastal morphology, conservation, crime, cultural anthropology, disaster science, economic geography, Ethnohistory, extreme events,Forensic anthropology, GIS, Historical archeology, historical geography, human geography, hurricanes, hydrology, identity, material culture, Maya, meteorology, osteology, physical geography, place and culture political ecology, political geography, public health, quantitative methods, religion, remote sensing, social theory, spatial analysis, spatial modeling, tropical cyclones, urban geography.