Undergraduate

Act globally and locally

Take advantage of the Spatial Sciences Institute's summer research-based course SSCI 350: International GeoDesign. Watch the video of the summer 2014 International GeoDesign experience.

In past summers, students have conducted research and worked with international GeoDesign experts in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Delft, and Los Angeles on a professional project. Students applied Dutch urban planning, geospatial technologies, and environmental design principles to address an LA-area societal challenge of their choice. During the two-week field experience based at the Vrije University Amsterdam, students created urban renewal projects in Amsterdam-Zuidoost (South East) with Dutch GeoDesign practitioners and faculty from Vrije University Amsterdam and USC. Students also collaborated with Dutch students in a state-of-the-art geodesign lab.

Plans are underway for the 2022 SSCI 350 course to take place in Salzburg, Austria. Applications are due to Professor Laura Loyola (loyola@usc.edu) on January 21, 2022. Space is limited.

Interdisciplinary Innovation

In the USC Spatial Sciences undergraduate programs, take advantage of the ability to approach pressing issues and challenges from interdisciplinary and innovative perspectives. USC Spatial majors and minors prepare students for professional careers and/or graduate study by engaging them in the acquisition, representation, analysis, modeling, and visualization of spatial information set in the context of the built environment and policy. With these reasoning and scientific skill sets, students become front-line scholars, using the underlying spatial science principles, methods, and tools as they engage in sustainable planning, facility and infrastructure management, the design of livable and healthy communities, the delivery of water, energy, and other resource needs, and the impact of population growth.