Apply for Maymester
Applications for our Catalina Residential College Maymester are open!
Live for a month on Catalina Island as you learn how to protect our urban oceans. Program courses include marine microbiology, oceanography, coastal ecology, island histories, and human attitudes toward environmental policies.
The priority deadline has passed, but we are still accepting applications on a rolling basis for courses with open seats. Please see the Maymester application for more information.
Find Your Place at the Wrigley Institute
Training for Tomorrow
Students in our bachelor’s and master’s degree programs learn to view environment and sustainability challenges with fresh eyes, harnessing an interdisciplinary perspective to develop novel, world-changing solutions to big problems.
“The classes I took in the Environmental Studies Program were some of my most inspiring at USC. They really solidified my passion and equipped me for working in this area.”
World-Class Sustainability Research
Our affiliated faculty are tracking the state of our planet, creating workable solutions to big challenges, and transforming the way society thinks and acts on the environment.
“Reefs provide so many essential services: they’re biodiversity hotspots, sources of new medicines, natural breakwaters that protect coastal communities, and major economic hubs. My lab is working toward solutions to help reefs hang on.”
Wrigley Marine Science Center on Catalina Island
Our one-of-a-kind satellite campus and living lab on Catalina Island offers environment and sustainability researchers and students the unique opportunity to investigate a pristine natural environment just 22 miles off the coast of the nation’s second-largest city.
