Jun 27, 2024  
USC Catalogue 2018-2019 
    
USC Catalogue 2018-2019 [ARCHIVED CATALOGUE]

Courses of Instruction


The terms indicated are expected but are not guaranteed. For the courses offered during any given term, consult the Schedule of Classes.

 

Spanish

  
  • SPAN 455 Picaresque Itineraries: Empire and Its Discontents

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    A study of the rise of the picaresque novel in Spain and Latin America as a medium for social, political, and cultural criticism. 
    Recommended Preparation: SPAN 304  or SPAN 306  or SPAN 308 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SPAN 460 Don Quijote: Text and Film

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    A close reading of Cervantes’ masterpiece and analysis of film adaptations of the novel. 
    Prerequisite: SPAN 301 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SPAN 462 Literary Cartographies of Latin America and Spain, 1810–1898

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Comparative analysis of Spanish and Latin American literatures with a focus on trans-Atlantic relations and the rise of such movements as romanticism, realism, and modernismo. 
    Recommended Preparation: SPAN 304  or SPAN 306  or SPAN 308 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SPAN 464 Introduction to Contemporary Spanish Theatre

    Units: 4
    (Madrid Center only) Historical evolution of the contemporary Spanish theatre; readings of dramatic texts supported by attendance at live stage performances.
    Recommended Preparation: SPAN 304  or SPAN 306  or SPAN 308 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SPAN 465 Cultural Perspectives of the Iberian Peninsula

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sm
    (Madrid Summer Program) Study of cultural plurality in the Iberian Peninsula.
    Recommended Preparation: SPAN 260  or SPAN 261 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SPAN 466 Argentina, Society and the Arts

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sm
    Study of the arts in the cultural landscape of Argentina and in the context of developments in Europe, Latin America and the United States.
    Recommended Preparation: SPAN 260  or SPAN 261 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SPAN 469 Immigration in Spain

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sm
    Sociopolitical issues of immigration in Spain, including economic impact, legal evolution, history, geographic location, and culture. 
    Prerequisite: SPAN 220 ;
    Recommended Preparation: SPAN 260  or SPAN 261 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SPAN 470 Literature and Media in Latin America

    Units: 4
    (Enroll in COLT 470 )
  
  • SPAN 471 Postdictatorship Spanish and Latin American Cinema

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    A study of the historical, cultural and political context of post-dictatorship Spanish and Latin American cinema by focusing on debates on memory and trauma. Taught in Spanish. 
    Prerequisite: SPAN 302 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SPAN 472 The Sixties in Latin America

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Study of the explosive Latin American cultural formations of the sixties (literary boom, third cinema, protest song, theories of armed struggle).
    Prerequisite: SPAN 304  or SPAN 306  or SPAN 308 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SPAN 481 Literature and Popular Culture

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    An examination of popular culture and literary genres with an emphasis on the evolving canons and identities of Latin America and Spain.
    Recommended Preparation: SPAN 304  or SPAN 306  or SPAN 308 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SPAN 482 Literature and the City

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    An examination of the literary representations of urban spaces and cultures within the context of Iberian, Latin American, and U.S. Latino societies.
    Recommended Preparation: SPAN 304  or SPAN 306  or SPAN 308 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SPAN 483 Gender and Sexuality

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    An examination of gender, sexuality, and power in Iberian and Latin American literatures and cultures. Conducted in Spanish.
    Recommended Preparation: SPAN 304   or SPAN 306  or SPAN 308 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SPAN 484 Studies in Visual and Material Culture

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    An examination of the role of visual and material culture in cultural and social context in the Hispanic world, focusing on a selected time period and geographical region.
    Recommended Preparation: SPAN 260  and SPAN 261  if taken for Spanish major credit.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SPAN 490x Directed Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
    Max Units: 12.0
    Individual research and readings.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SPAN 495 Seminar for Majors and Minors

    Units: 4
    Two options: (1) Study of a major work or writer, a principal literary theme or movement; or (2) a selected topic in Spanish language and linguistics.
    Recommended Preparation: two courses in the upper division in the same area as the seminar topic (i.e., language or literature).
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SPAN 499 Special Topics

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SPAN 501 Cultural Narratives of Spain and Latin America

    Units: 4
    Theoretical and methodological approaches to cultural narratives in Spanish and Latin American literary and cultural studies.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SPAN 511 Techniques and Procedures of Teaching Spanish as a Second Language

    Units: 3
    Practical classroom application of language teaching methods; evaluation of available textbooks; critique of master classes.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SPAN 513 Spanish Morphology and Phonology

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    A survey of research on the interaction between Spanish morphology and phonology in light of critical readings and discussion of selected studies as contributions to the general theory of grammar.
    Duplicates Credit in former SPAN 512.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as LING-513
  
  • SPAN 514 Spanish Syntax

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    A survey of Spanish syntax in the light of critical readings and discussion of selected studies and their comparative contribution to grammatical theory.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as LING-514
  
  • SPAN 515 Spanish Grammar in Discourse

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Semantic and pragmatic approaches to the analysis of the structure of Spanish sentences and discourse.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as LING-515
  
  • SPAN 516 Historical Aspects of Spanish and Portuguese

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Processes of language change in the development of the Spanish and Portuguese languages from their origin in spoken Latin to their modern stage.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SPAN 517 Spanish Applied Linguistics

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Modern theories of first and second language acquisition and their application to Spanish.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SPAN 518 Spanish Sociolinguistics

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Principles of sociolinguistics and dialectology: sociolinguistic patterns in the Hispanic languages.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SPAN 525 Medieval and Early Modern Spanish World

    Units: 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    Study of literature and other cultural artifacts pertaining to the Middle Ages in Spain and the early modern world in both Spain and the Americas.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SPAN 529 The Transatlantic 19th Century

    Units: 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    Study of authors, texts and literary and cultural currents in Spain and Latin America in the 19th century.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SPAN 539 20th and 21st Century Spanish Literature and Culture

    Units: 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    Study of cultural currents, authors, literary texts, films and other media in Spain in the 20th and 21st centuries.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SPAN 545 20th and 21st Century Latin American Literature and Culture

    Units: 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    Study of cultural currents, authors, literary texts, films and other media in Latin America in the 20th and 21st centuries.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SPAN 590 Directed Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
    Research leading to the master’s degree. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  
  • SPAN 592 Practicum in Teaching Spanish

    Units: 2
    Approaches and techniques in the teaching of Spanish and/or Portuguese as a second language.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Master and Doctoral students in Comparative Literature, Comparative Culture in Literature and Studies (Spanish and Latin American Studies), Linguistics (Hispanic Linguistics) and Spanish.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  
  • SPAN 594a Master’s Thesis

    Units: 2
    Credit on acceptance of thesis.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  
  • SPAN 594b Master’s Thesis

    Units: 2
    Credit on acceptance of thesis.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  
  • SPAN 594z Master’s Thesis

    Units: 0
    Credit on acceptance of thesis.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  
  • SPAN 596 Research Methods in Spanish Linguistics

    Units: 3
    Examination of various research methods as applied to the study of the Spanish language; mechanics of organizing, conducting and presenting research in Spanish linguistics.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SPAN 602 Seminar in Spanish and Latin American Critical Theory

    Units: 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    Major developments in literary criticism in Spain and Latin America from the early modern period to the present.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SPAN 603 Seminar in the Cultural History of Spain and Latin America

    Units: 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    Literary and cultural currents in Spain and Latin America, with varying focus on genres, periods, movements and problems.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SPAN 604 Seminar in Gender and Sexuality in Spain and Latin America

    Units: 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    Construction and representation of gender and sexuality in Spanish and Latin American literature and culture.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SPAN 606 Seminar in Visual Culture in Spain and Latin America

    Units: 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    Major currents in film and other media in Spain and Latin America.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SPAN 650 Topics in Spanish and Latin American Literature and Culture

    Units: 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    Study of topics in Spanish and Latin American literature and culture across periods, genres and nations.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SPAN 652 Seminar on a Major Topic in Hispanic Linguistics

    Units: 3
    Max Units: 9.0
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Analysis of selected topics of current interest as reflected primarily in the most recent literature.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SPAN 672 Seminar in Spanish Morphophonology

    Units: 3
    Max Units: 9.0
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Selected topics in Spanish morphology and phonology.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SPAN 674 Seminar on Spanish Syntax and Semantics

    Units: 3
    Max Units: 9.0
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Detailed analysis of topics in modern Spanish syntax and semantics.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SPAN 676 Seminar in Diachronic Aspects of the Hispanic Languages

    Units: 3
    Max Units: 9.0
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    In-depth analysis of a particular topic in the historical development of the Hispanic languages.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SPAN 677 Seminar in Spanish Applied Linguistics

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Critical study and analysis of major issues related to the teaching and learning of Spanish as a first or a second language.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SPAN 678 Seminar in Hispanic Sociolinguistics

    Units: 3
    Max Units: 9.0
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Selected topics in Hispanic sociolinguistics: social and geographic language varieties, language contact, discourse analysis, synchronic variation and processes of change in Spanish.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SPAN 700 Colloquium in Hispanic Literature and Linguistics

    Units: 1
    Max Units: 3.0
    Discussion and presentation of papers on a variety of topics in the areas of Hispanic language and literature.
    Prerequisite: any 600 level Spanish seminar.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  
  • SPAN 790 Directed Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
    Research leading to the doctorate. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  
  • SPAN 794a Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 2
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  
  • SPAN 794b Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 2
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  
  • SPAN 794c Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 2
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  
  • SPAN 794d Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 2
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  
  • SPAN 794z Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 0
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit


Spatial Sciences Institute

  
  • SSCI 101 Workshop in Spatial Analysis

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Introduction to geospatial technologies and data as creative tools for supplementing traditional forms of academic work across the sciences, social sciences, and the humanities.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SSCI 135g Maps in the Digital World

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    The role of formal reasoning, abstract representation and empirical analysis in building maps for sharing knowledge across the physical, life and social sciences and humanities.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category F: Quantitative Reasoning
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SSCI 165Lgw Sustainability Science in the City

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    The influence of sustainability science on public policy and vice versa in the context of social/ethical theories, analytical methods and solutions.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category C: Social Analysis
    Satisfies Global Perspective in Category G: Citizenship in a Diverse World
    Satisfies Old General Education in Category VI: Social Issues
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SSCI 201 Principles of GeoDesign

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Foundations of geodesign combining place-making, design, collective action, and the science of location-based information to improve human interaction with the functioning of the Earth.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SSCI 214g Human Populations and Natural Hazards

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Introduction to the complex relationship between human development and natural hazards, which are increasingly causing damage and displacement to human populations throughout the world.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category C: Social Analysis
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SSCI 265Lg The Water Planet

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    An exploration of earth’s water, ranging from water properties, chemistry, and pollution, to groundwater dynamics, watershed processes, and oceanic-atmospheric circulation. Implications for past and future societies.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category E: Physical Sciences
    Satisfies Old General Education in Category IV: Science and Its Significance
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SSCI 301L Maps and Spatial Reasoning

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Role of maps and spatial reasoning in the production and use of geographic information for representing and analyzing human and environmental activities and events.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SSCI 311 International Geodesign Studio - Europe

    Units: 12
    Terms Offered: Sm
    Critical and spatial thinking while engaged in classroom and field settings to propose geodesign strategies that address a societal challenge in an Amsterdam neighborhood.
    Prerequisite: SSCI 201  and SSCI 301L  and SSCI 382L 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SSCI 312 International Geodesign Studio - Asia

    Units: 12
    Terms Offered: Sm
    Examine geodesign applications in locations throughout Asia and utilize these experiences to interrogate applications of geodesign and how they might be applied in the U.S.
    Prerequisite: ARCH 203  and ARCH 303  and SOCI 314Lg 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SSCI 340 Community Health Scan

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    The social context of health and its determinants; the uses of data analysis; community capacity building, and the impact of policy on community health improvement.
    Duplicates Credit in former MDA 350
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SSCI 350 International GeoDesign

    Units: 4
    Max Units: 12.0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Intensive living-learning research and field experience in Los Angeles and abroad; application of GeoDesign strategies to local societal challenges.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SSCI 382L Principles of Geographic Information Science

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    The various ways in which geography can be used to acquire, represent, organize, analyze, model and visualize information. Laboratories are organized around ArcGIS software suite.
    Prerequisite: SSCI 301L 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SSCI 383L Geospatial Modeling and Customization

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Fundamentals of spatial modeling and remote sensing and how to use GIS customization and programming to streamline complex spatial analysis and modeling workflows.
    Prerequisite: SSCI 301   and SSCI 382  
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SSCI 397 Spatial Sciences Internship

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Intensive experience in local public agency, private firm, or nonprofit agency engaged in applied geospatial analysis, modeling and mapping work.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  
  • SSCI 401L Geospatial Intelligence

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Introduction to basic geospatial intelligence knowledge and related practical applications that assist in informing decision‐making in a variety of human security settings.
    Recommended Preparation: IR 381  and SSCI 301L 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SSCI 402 Geospatial Technology Management for Sustainability Science

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Principles and techniques for leveraging geospatial technologies and information in support of sustainability, with emphasis on coupling human and natural systems for global sustainable development.
    Prerequisite: (SSCI 165Lgw  or SSCI 265Lg ) and (SSCI 301L  and SSCI 382L  and SSCI 383L )
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SSCI 412L GeoDesign Practicum

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Application of design concepts, planning protocols and spatial analysis skills to a complex planning or design problem sponsored by a local public, private or not-for-profit client in a studio setting.
    Prerequisite: ARCH 403 , PPD 425, SOCI 314 , SSCI 483 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as ARCH-412, PPD-412
  
  • SSCI 490x Directed Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
    Max Units: 12.0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Individual research and readings.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to juniors and seniors.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SSCI 499 Special Topics

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    Intensive study of selected topics or regions.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SSCI 577 Human Security and Disaster Management

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    The relationship between human security (population growth, urbanization, conflict) and disasters, both man-made and natural, where complex emergencies are impactful to human populations.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SSCI 578 The Practice of Geospatial Leadership

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sm
    The geospatial value proposition and the qualities and skills leaders will need to help their geospatial information management groups and organizations achieve success.
    Recommended Preparation: SSCI 581 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SSCI 579 Geospatial Intelligence Tradecraft

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Typical geospatial intelligence tasks and their use in military operations, national and homeland security, international relief work and disaster management.
    Recommended Preparation: SSCI 581 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SSCI 580 Spatial Computing

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Theoretical foundations, methods, techniques, and software systems for spatial computing, including geospatial semantic web and linked data, spatial data mining, geocoding, and document linking.
    Recommended Preparation: SSCI 581  or INF 510 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SSCI 581 Concepts for Spatial Thinking

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    The unique characteristics and importance of spatial information as they relate to the evolving science, technology, and applications of Geographic Information Systems.
    Duplicates Credit in the former GEOG 581.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SSCI 582 Spatial Databases

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Design, implementation, and interrogation of relational, object-oriented and other types of geospatial databases.
    Recommended Preparation: SSCI 581 .
    Duplicates Credit in the former GEOG 582.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SSCI 583 Spatial Analysis

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Provides the knowledge and skills necessary to investigate the spatial patterns which result from social and physical processes operating at or near the Earth’s surface.
    Recommended Preparation: SSCI 581 .
    Duplicates Credit in former GEOG 583.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SSCI 584 Spatial Modeling

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    The use of spatial models to describe social and environmental processes, patterns and systems at multiple spatial and temporal scales.
    Recommended Preparation: SSCI 583 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SSCI 585 Geospatial Technology Project Management

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSm
    Concepts, principles, and use of project management tools and the people issues encountered running GIS projects.
    Recommended Preparation: SSCI 581 .
    Duplicates Credit in the former GEOG 585.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SSCI 586 GIS Programming and Customization

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Design, coding, and implementation of GIS-based software and models using the Python programming language.
    Recommended Preparation: SSCI 582 .
    Duplicates Credit in former GEOG 586.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SSCI 587 Spatial Data Acquisition

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Role of global positioning systems, maps, geocoding, and other kinds of sensors as geospatial data sources. Includes field data acquisition excursion on Catalina Island.
    Recommended Preparation: SSCI 581 .
    Duplicates Credit in former GEOG 587.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SSCI 588 Remote Sensing for GIS

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: SpSm
    Principles of remote sensing, satellite systems, and role of remote sensing data in GIS applications.
    Recommended Preparation: SSCI 581 .
    Duplicates Credit in the former GEOG 588.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SSCI 589 Cartography and Visualization

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: SpSm
    Principles of visual perception, spatial cognition and cartographic design and their contributions to the maps, animations, virtual reality and multimedia displays produced with modern GIS.
    Recommended Preparation: SSCI 581 .
    Duplicates Credit in the former GEOG 589.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SSCI 590 Directed Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Research leading to the master’s degree in cognate fields. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  
  • SSCI 591 Web GIS

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSm
    Design and implementation of locally served and cloud-based geospatial web applications. Construction of web maps, mashups, and Volunteered Geographic Information interfaces.
    Recommended Preparation: SSCI 581.
    Duplicates Credit in the former GEOG 591.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SSCI 592 Mobile GIS

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: SpSm
    Design, coding, and implementation of mobile GIS applications using the Java and Javascript object-oriented programming languages.
    Recommended Preparation: SSCI 591.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SSCI 593 Geospatial Data Integration

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSm
    Role of crowdsourcing, volunteered geographic information, spatial data infrastructures, and web portals in helping with the collection, storage, curation, and distribution of geospatial data assets.
    Recommended Preparation: SSCI 587.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SSCI 594a Master’s Thesis

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of thesis.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  
  • SSCI 594b Master’s Thesis

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of thesis.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  
  • SSCI 594z Master’s Thesis

    Units: 0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of thesis.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress & Credit/No Credit

  
  • SSCI 595 Applied Geospatial Intelligence Problem Solving

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Provides hands-on problem solving opportunity that requires knowledge and GEOINT skills to provide an informed recommendation involving a variety of human security settings.
    Prerequisite: SSCI 577 and SSCI 588  and SSCI 579  and SSCI 581 
    Corequisite: SSCI 585 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SSCI 596 Internship in Spatial Sciences

    Units: 1
    Max Units: 4.0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Part-time or full-time practical work experience in the student’s field of study at an off-campus facility under faculty direction.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  
  • SSCI 599 Special Topics

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    Seminar in selected topics in the spatial sciences.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SSCI 600 The Geography of Life and Death

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Meaning and significance of place and role of social, natural, and built environments in disease occurrence in different places and populations.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SSCI 601a Population, Health and Place Research Practicum

    Units: 2
    Max Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sm
    The use of population science, public health, and spatial science theory and practice to advance our understanding of one or more aspects of human well-being.
    Prerequisite: SSCI 600  
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SSCI 601b Population, Health and Place Research Practicum

    Units: 2
    Max Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sm
    The use of population science, public health, and spatial science theory and practice to advance our understanding of one or more aspects of human well-being.
    Prerequisite: SSCI 601a  
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SSCI 680 Advanced Spatial Computing

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    The role of spatial computing in understanding the world, in knowing and communicating our relationships to specific places, and for navigating through those places.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  
  • SSCI 683 Principles of Spatial Data Analysis

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    The theoretical foundations and techniques of spatial analysis and the ways in which they have been used to identify spatial processes and patterns.
    Recommended Preparation: Enrollment in a USC PhD Program.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

 

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