• Applied Mathematics
• East Asian Languages and Cultures
• Economics
• Economic Developmental Programming
• Enviromental Studies
• Geographic Information Science & Technology
• Geological Sciences
• International Relations

• Marine Environmental Biology
• Mathematics
• Mathematical Finance
• Philosophy and Law
• Professional Writing
• Psychology
• Statistics
• Visual Anthropology

Applied Mathematics

          - Enhance preparation for Ph.D. programs

          - Prepare for employment as a  College mathematics instructor

          - Prepare for employment in government, international agencies, and multinational businesses

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Sergey Lototsky

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lototsky@math.usc.edu

Amy Yung

08168

amy@math.usc.edu

East Asian Languages and Cultures

          - Prepare for employment as a  College language instructor

          - Prepare for employment in civil service, State Department, courts and as a translator.

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Dominic Cheung

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dcheung@usc.edu

Geinel Johnson

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gmjohnso@usc.edu

Economics

          - Prepare for employment in government, international agencies, and multinational businesses

          - Enhance preparation for Ph.D. programs

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Jeff Nugent

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nugent@usc.edu

Morgan Ponder

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ponder@usc.edu

Economic Developmental Programming

          - Prepare for employment in government, international agencies, and multinational businesses

          - Enhance preparation for Ph.D. programs

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Jeff Nugent

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nugent@usc.edu

Morgan Ponder

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ponder@usc.edu

Environmental Studies

          - Gain a professionalization experience for ENST majors, having mastered the theoretical tools related to Environmental Studies, students are ready for applied skills such as the preparation or analysis of environmental planning documents.

          - Prepare for governmental and non-governmental (NGO) environmental policy and private sector positions

          - Combined with some previous coursework in business prepare to help businesses "green" themselves by instituting more sustainable practices

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David Ginsburg

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dginsbur@dornsife.usc.edu

Kevin Cannariato

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cannaria@usc.edu

Geographic Information Science and Technology

          - Gain world-class training in practical applications beneficial in industry and research positions

          - Acquire substantial graduate training currently required by industry, government, and corporations

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Jennifer N. Swift

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jswift@dornsife.usc.ed

Katherine Kelsey

x08298

kkelsey@usc.edu

Geological Sciences

          - Enhance preparation for Ph. D. programs

          - Meet current industry standards

          - Gain excellent training for computational data analysis

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Doug Hammond

x05837

dhammond@usc.edu

Cindy Waite

X06109

waite@usc.edu

International Relations

          - Prepare for employment in private and public sector requiring a  Masters degree

          - Prepares  for employment in NGO's, government, and the State Department

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Gerado Munck

x12720

munck@usc.edu

Elisa Chavarria

x08630

elisacha@usc.edu

Marine Environmental Biology

          - Enhance preparation for Ph. D. programs

          - Develop a unique facet to one's background as a prospective medical student.

          - Develop fundamental tools and expertise for entry into a master's level position in academic, government, or private sector research laboratories.

          - Prepare for governmental and non-government (NGO) environmental regulatory science, and forge career pathways into private sector positions in environmental consulting and business.

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Linda Duguay

x11335

duguay@usc.edu

Linda Bazilian

X11088

bazilian@usc.edu

Mathematics

          - Enhance preparation for Ph.D. programs

          - Prepare for employment as a  College mathematics instructor

          - Prepare for employment in government, international agencies, and multinational businesses

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Igor Kukavica

03781

kukavica@math.usc.edu

Amy Yung

08168

amy@math.usc.edu

Mathematical Finance

          - Prepare for employment in high tech or financial markets

          - Prepare for employment at quality financial institutions (hedge funds, banks, treasurers', Federal Reserve, IMF, Brookings Institute)

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Michael Magill

x02104

magill@usc.edu

Amy Yung

x08168

amy@math.usc.edu

Jin Ma

x03771

jinma@usc.edu

Philosophy and Law

          - Develop skills to function effectively as teachers, thinkers and writers on philosophical topics in the Western tradition

          - Enhance preparation for a J.D. or Ph. D. program

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Scott Soames

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soames@usc.edu

Scott Soames

x00798

soames@usc.edu

Professional Writing

          - Experience the value of a literary and aesthetic heritage through seminars and workshops that cultivate critical and creative thinking

          - Steep yourself in the methods  of accomplished novelists, poets, playwrights, screenwriters and creative nonfiction writers in workshops and seminars

          - Develop an understanding of multiple literary genres and the artful expression of these forms, and then delve deeply into one of these genres for your final (thesis) project

          - Work closely with a faculty mentor on editing and shaping a sophisticated draft of your final project: a full-length novel, collection of short stories; collection of poems; nonfiction book; or a screen or stage-play

          - Workshop your manuscripts in a rigorous yet nurturing environment based on a studio model of working closely with accomplished writers in small workshop settings

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Brighde Mullins

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bmullins@dornsife.usc.edu

Natalie Inouye

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kaylor@college.usc.edu

Psychology

          - Enhance preparation for Ph.D. programs

          - Produce scholarly work suitable for submission to a major publication

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Gayla Margolin

x02313

margolin@usc.edu

Ingrid Popper

x02204

popper@usc.edu

Statistics

          - Prepare for College-teaching

          - Prepare for employment in the industry

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Larry Goldstein

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larry@math.usc.edu

Charles Lanski

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clanski@usc.edu

Visual Anthropology

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Gary Seaman

01906

seaman@usc.edu

Janet Hoskins

01913

jhoskins@usc.edu