USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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USC Dornsife: A Global College
Australasia • Europe & Eurasia • Latin & South America • North Africa & the Middle East • North America • South & East Asia • Sub-Saharan Africa
The USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences prepares students to be world citizens and leaders through increasing awareness, understanding and appreciation of cultural differences. For underlying all inquiry in the humanities, social sciences and sciences is the hope that our new discoveries and insights will be the driving force for a better future in our community and our world.
Diversity in all aspects of its organization, academic programs, faculty, research and students highlights USC Dornsife’s commitment to globalization. This begins in Los Angeles, where USC enrolls more international students than any other institution of higher education in America and continues with programs such as Problems Without Passports, which combines problem-based or inquiry learning research exercises with study in a foreign country, Washington D.C., or Los Angeles.
As the academic heart of the university, USC Dornsife offers opportunities to develop and refine global awareness among its students through more than 60 majors and nearly 80 minors, study abroad opportunities in 50 programs in 28 countries, and internationally themed curricula. In addition, USC Dornsife offers language courses in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian (Farsi), Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
USC Dornsife in the World
Not Following the Herd
A newborn goat, umbilical cord still attached, stumbled across the dusty road, bleating in wonder. From the airplane window a day earlier, eight USC Dornsife undergraduates had watched the Los Angeles sprawl and jammed I-405 vanish before their eyes. Now they were in rural Ghana.... Read more >
A Romance Language Perfected
Inside a Taper Hall classroom, USC Dornsife senior Bridget McDonald chatted with classmates, effortlessly transitioning from English to Spanish. The Pasadena, Calif., native’s confidence faltered, however, when native Spanish speakers struck up a conversation with her. That was before she spent a month in Spain.... Read more >
Clues from Ancient Antioch
Lynn Swartz Dodd and her students had heard rumblings of a 10th-century cemetery deep in the brush in the Hatay region of Turkey near Antakya, the ancient city of Antioch. But no one had ever translated the inscribed gravestones to decipher who was buried there. Carrying heavy bags of high-tech imaging equipment and slashing through overgrown cotton fields in 90-degree heat, Dodd’s team became the first.... Read more >
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