USC Schedule of Classes

Fall 2018

Community Engagement

Section 64535

  • Note: This special topics course affords students an opportunity to improve their writing and critical reasoning abilities experientially and personally through projects with community partners. The course asks students to engage the community surrounding USC through writing and critical reasoning to address social needs and to learn from the communities in which our classrooms exist. Students will have the opportunity to partner with one of several, diverse pre-selected organizations in the Los Angeles Area and engage in collaborative workwork that requires students to interrogate assumptions about local places and identities and explore the complexities of local social issues. Using experiences with community partners and assigned texts as an anchor, students will engage in the processes of writing and revision and practice skills to craft complex, coherent arguments that imagine new possibilities for local communities in both formal writing projects and a semester-long project. Because one component of the class is interacting with our community partners, we want to be sure that we have available time/space to do that effectively. In addition to our regular class time, we ask that all of our students set aside one of the following blocks during at least eight weeks of the semester: M, T, W, or Th 1-3 p.m. T 1-3 p.m. Th 5-7 p.m.
  • Session Dates (session code 001)
    First day of classes:
    Monday, August 20, 2018
    Last day to add:
    Friday, September 7, 2018
    Last day to change to Pass/No Pass:
    Last day to drop without a mark of "W" and receive a refund:
    Friday, September 7, 2018
    Last day to withdraw without a “W” on transcript or change pass/no pass to letter grade:
    Friday, October 5, 2018
    Last day to drop with a mark of "W":
    Friday, November 9, 2018
    End of session:
    Wednesday, December 12, 2018