Community-Based Learning Courses

The following courses may include a community placement to help students learn how to develop and apply knowledge, work in diverse social settings, become engaged in civic affairs, explore possible career paths, and make professional contacts. Please note that this list is tentative and that specific course requirements often vary by professor. For a list of courses partnering with the USC Joint Educational Project in the current semester, please click here.

Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

AMST 101gmw	Race and Class in Los Angeles
AMST 252gmw	Black Social Movements in the U.S.
ANTH 201	Principles of Human Organization
BISC 102Lxg	Humans and Their Environment
BISC 150Lxg	The Nature of Human Health and Disease
CLAS 150	The Greeks and their Legacies
CLAS 280gp	Classical Mythology in Art and Literature
CLAS 300	Women in Antiquity
CLAS 320gmp	Diversity and the Classical Western Tradition
COLT 302	Introduction to Literary Theory
COLT 374gm	Women Writers in Europe and America
COMM 324mw	Intercultural Communication
ECON 203g	Principles of Microeconomics
ECON 205g	Principles of Macroeconomics
ECON 303	Intermediate Microeconomic Theory
ENGL 230	Shakespeare and His Times
ENGL 261g	English Literature to 1800
ENGL 262g	English Literature since 1800
ENGL 263g	American Literature
ENGL 298g	Introduction to the Genre of Fiction
ENGL 303	Introduction to Fiction Writing
ENGL 304	Introduction to Poetry Writing
ENGL 405	Fiction Writing
ENGL 406	Poetry Writing
ENGL 430	Shakespeare
ENST 100g	Introduction to Environmental Studies
ENST 150gx	Environmental Issues in Society
ENST 320ab	Water and Soil Sustainability; Energy and Air Sustainability
ENST 387	Economics for Natural Resources and the Environment
FREN 250	French IV
FREN 300	French Grammar and Composition
FREN 330	Critical Writing in French
GEOL 105Lg	Planet Earth
GEOL 107Lg	Oceanography
GEOL 108Lg	Crises of a Planet
GEOL 130Lg	The Nature of Scientific Inquiry
GEOL 160Lg	Introduction to Geosystems
GEOL 240Lg	Earthquakes
GESM 120g	Seminar in Humanistic Inquiry
GESM 130g	Seminar in Social Analysis (Sociology of Youth, Culture)
GESM 131g	Seminar in Social Analysis (Introduction to Education: Examining Critical Issues)
HBIO 200Lg	The Human Animal
HBIO 202Lg	Nutrition for Life
HBIO 205Lxg	The Science of Sport
HBIO 250	The Pharmacology of Performance Enhancing Drugs
HBIO 301L	Human Anatomy
HBIO 302L	Nutrition and Metabolism
HBIO 320	Muscle Physiology
HBIO 360	Nutrition and Disease
HBIO 400L	Motor Control and Learning
HBIO 405	Evolutionary Medicine
HBIO 420L	Applied Human Physiology
HIST 100gm	The American Experience
HIST 101gp	State and Society in the Ancient World
HIST 210gw	How to Be An American: Global Histories of U.S. Citizenship
HIST 361	20th Century U.S. History
IR 101gxw	International Relations
IR 310	Peace and Conflict Studies
IR 330	Politics of the World Economy
PHIL 166gw	Current Moral and Social Issues
PHIL 168g	The Meaning of Life
PHIL 260gw	Ethical Theory and Practice
POSC 110	Ideology and Political Conflict
POSC 323	Applied Politics
PSYC 100Lg	Introduction to Psychology
PSYC 165Lg	Drugs, Behavior and Society
PSYC 353g	Close Relationships
PSYC 355	Social Psychology
PSYC 360	Abnormal Psychology
PSYC 433	Children’s Learning and Cognitive Development
PSYC 462m	Culture and Mental Health
SOCI 150gm	Social Problems
SOCI 155gm	Immigrant America
SOCI 169gm	Changing Family Forms
SOCI 200gm	Introduction to Sociology
SOCI 305m	Sociology of Childhood
SOCI 342m	Race Relations
SOCI 350	Social Exclusion, Social Power, and Deviance
SOCI 351	Public Policy and Juvenile Justice
SOCI 360m	Social Inequality: Class, Status, and Power
SOCI 369	The Family in a Changing Society
SOCI 450	Non-Governmental Organizations/Non-profits Field Practicum
SOCI 465	Visual Sociology of the City and Its Residents
SPAN 220	Spanish III
SPAN 240	Spanish IV
SPAN 316x	Spanish for the Professions
SSCI 165Lgw	Sustainability Science in the City
SSCI 265Lg	The Water Planet
WRIT 150	Writing and Critical Reasoning–Thematic Approaches

Viterbi School of Engineering

ITP 115	Programming in Python
ITP 216	Applied Python

Price School of Public Policy

PPD 240g

Citizenship and Public Ethics

USC Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy

OT 220	Lifestyle Design: Introduction to Occupational Therapy
OT 250	Introduction to Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy
OT 251x	Across the Lifespan: Occupations, Health and Disability
OT 280	Essential Occupations of Emerging Adulthood
OT 310	Creativity Workshop
OT 312	Creating a Sustainable Lifestyle
OT 325	The Brain: Mind, Body, and Self
OT 355	Occupational Reconstructions and Social Transformations
OT 370	Understanding Autism: Participation Across the Lifespan

Keck School of Medicine of USC

HP 408	Environmental Health in the Community
HP 448	Global Environmental Changes and Health