{"id":491,"date":"2023-03-19T20:30:56","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T03:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/bisc\/?page_id=491"},"modified":"2025-10-01T17:35:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T00:35:18","slug":"welcome-orientation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/bisc\/undergraduate\/welcome-orientation\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome &#038; Orientation"},"content":{"rendered":"  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--intro-text align-center\"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--intro-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  \n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>The USC Biological Sciences department offers undergraduate programs of study in four different research sections: Human and Evolutionary Biology, Marine and Evolutionary Biology, Molecular and Computational Biology, and Neuroscience. 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