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Career Pathways parallels the central mission of the University of Southern California to cultivate and develop the human mind and spirit. Career Pathways works to align students’ academic interests with individual career and professional pathways through the exploration of the self and engagement in curricular and co-curricular opportunities. Moreover, the underlying goal is to engage students in critical discussion about careers and introduce a system of career management tools and practices students can utilize to achieve career and educational goals.

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As a discipline, Comparative Literature seeks out and encourages transnational and transcultural experiences and perspectives. Our students are trained to ask broader and better questions about the many forms of cultural production surrounding them. Comparatists study the nature of literature and other media across and between different languages and cultures. They gain a broad knowledge of different cultural traditions representing writers and artists of diverse origins and from many historical periods. In addition to cross-linguistic and cross-cultural literary studies, the undergraduate program explores literature in social, political, intellectual, and historical context and the relationship of literature to other arts, philosophy, and media, including digital media. The Department of Comparative Literature offers both a major and minor in comparative studies.

Students in Comparative Literature work with emergent and established scholars at the cutting edge of their various fields and disciplines. Our undergraduates are encouraged to adopt comparative study and literary theory not only as integral elements of interdisciplinary academic work, but as crucial tools of democratic citizenship in global contexts. The department has strengths in critical theory, and in both Western and non-Western literary and cultural traditions, including U.S., Latin American and Caribbean, European, Middle Eastern, East Asian, and South Asian. The broad scope of scholarly expertise represented in the department enables students to reflect critically, across their course of studies, on the ways in which globalization affects the creation, dissemination, and consumption of culture, and to analyze literature, arts, and media as sites of resistance to and rethinking of this globalization.

Our undergraduate program is more broadly conceived than at many other universities. While we offer traditional comparative literature courses that cross the boundaries of national literatures and study literary periods, movements, and genres, our courses also allow students to explore literature in its interaction with philosophy, to discover the relation of literature to other arts and media, and to reflect on practices of translation as themselves modes of transcultural exchange and production. The strong non-Western component in the undergraduate program encourages our students to think with nuance and complexity about the place of literature in wider social and political contexts.

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We believe knowledge of the issues affecting our planet's systems better prepares USC undergraduates for careers in a changing world—whether their career path is pre-med, pre-law, information technology, education, business, the physical sciences, or the geosciences.

The study of Earth's systems is becoming increasingly relevant in today's world. Climate change, water resources, evolution, renewable energy, carbon sequestration, environmental remediation, and earthquake and hurricane preparedness are areas of increasing societal concern.

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In 1975, the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences established the East Asian Studies Center (EASC) in order to provide dedicated leadership, coordination and support for the growing interdisciplinary education, research activity, and community outreach concerning East Asia. In addition to being an academic department, EASC has been recognized as one of the nation's leading centers for the development of East Asian area studies with over 120 USC faculty in 44 departments and schools affiliated with EASC today.

EASC offers an East Asian Area Studies(EAAS) major, EAAS minor, Korean Studies minor and EAAS Honors Program. Learn more about our EASC Undergraduate Programs on our website: https://dornsife.usc.edu/eascenter/majorminor/

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The Bachelor of Arts in Intelligence and Cyber Operations brings scholarship in international relations together with technical expertise in information technology to prepare USC students for a rapidly emerging field of scholarly activity and professional practice. How have nation-states and other actors used cyber technology to collect information and to spread misinformation? How can we protect against it? Dornsife College and the Viterbi School of Engineering have collaborated to create a major that can help prepare students to engage these timely challenges and opportunities.

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The Interdisciplinary Major Program presents a special opportunity for students to take advantage of the University's strengths in the professions and the liberal arts, by designing individual programs of study that cross the lines between traditional majors.

This is a program intended for students with superior academic records and excellent writing skills who have focused ideas as to the curricula which might be most meaningful to them--students whose individual intellectual interests have led them out of the center of a major into an area which interacts with one or more other disciplines in exciting ways.

Admission to the program is competitive. A demonstrated capacity for individual work is absolutely essential. The minimum GPA requirement is 3.0, although students with GPA's below 3.3 are the exception. The screening committee considers types of courses taken as well as overall grades. Each applicant for an Interdisciplinary Major writes a 3-4 page proposal describing the areas of study to be combined, and suggesting possible directions for a senior thesis.

The Interdisciplinary Major Program is not a back door into competitive programs or a reduced version of a double major: students are required to submit and complete individual research projects with foci that are compelling to them and to the faculty of their guidance committee. During their senior year, each IDM major writes a thesis of thirty pages in length, which must be accepted by his or her thesis director and guidance committee.

Past projects have studied genetic predictors of ovarian cancer; the relationship between epileptic seizures and learning; the art and science of dance; graphic arts and the Ballet Russe; Japanese music and philosophy; the social role of photography; linguistic theoretical models in international relations; the post-apartheid generation in South Africa; a history of the region where Mexico City now stands; the Chinese political economy; questions of value in business and philosophy; conceptions of childhood; animated interactive narratives; representations of the Shoah; globalization and social movements; and the efficacy of non-violence.

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