SSI undergraduate programs
Our majors and minors combine well with other majors and minors, such as Environmental Studies, Urban Studies and Planning and Architectural Studies. We have had students integrate their studies with journalism, cognitive science, international relations, health and human behavior, applied data–even music!
Be a researcher on one of the SSI faculty teams that are creating urban forests to promote livability, increasing food and nutrition access and analyzing the impact of the war in Ukraine. Be an intern to explore what it’s like to work in companies, agencies and not-for-profit organizations that are hiring individuals with spatial sciences backgrounds and capabilities.
SSI undergraduate programs
Talk with us about your passions – the spatial sciences can make them realities.
Satisfy your GE requirements
Get a taste of the power of spatial sciences in one of these General Education courses.
Study abroad with SSCI 350: International Geodesign
Want to help preserve lagoons, wetlands and estuaries along the coast of the Gulf of Guinea in Ghana with geodesign?
Learn about and apply core concepts of geodesign, sustainable development, people and place, urban and landscape planning and geospatial technologies in the 2025 International Geodesign four-week intensive program (May 19 – June 13, 2025) with Professor Guoping Huang of the USC Spatial Sciences Institute.
After a one-week on-campus orientation, you will travel first to Accra, the capital city of Ghana, to learn about the environmental problems facing the coastal communities near the Korle Lagoon and Jamestown with faculty at the University of Ghana, Legon, and local guides. You will then move to Winneba, to work with local foresters and faculty at the University of Education to develop conservation strategies to protect the beautiful Muni Lagoon.
Excursions in Winneba include a visit to slave castles in Cape Coast and to Kakum National Park to observe various wildlife species.
For more information, please email Dr. Huang at guopingh@usc.edu.
