Section Update · USC Schedule of Classes

Note: This special topics course affords students an opportunity to improve their writing and critical reasoning abilities experientially and personally through projects with community partners. The course asks students to engage the community surrounding USC through writing and critical reasoning to address social needs and to learn from the communities in which our classrooms exist. Students will have the opportunity to partner with one of several, diverse pre-selected organizations in the Los Angeles Area and engage in collaborative workwork that requires students to interrogate assumptions about local places and identities and explore the complexities of local social issues. Using experiences with community partners and assigned texts as an anchor, students will engage in the processes of writing and revision and practice skills to craft complex, coherent arguments that imagine new possibilities for local communities in both formal writing projects and a semester-long project.
Session Dates (session code 001)

First day of classes:
Monday, January 13, 2020

Last day to add:
Friday, January 31, 2020

Last day to drop without a mark of "W" and receive a refund:
Friday, January 31, 2020

Last day to withdraw without a “W” on transcript or change pass/no pass to letter grade:
Friday, April 24, 2020
Last day to drop with a mark of "W":

Friday, May 1, 2020

End of session:
Wednesday, May 13, 2020