In this Fall 2025 Faculty Showcase on Experiential Learning, Susan Harris, Executive Director of the USC Joint Educational Project (JEP) outlines the service learning and community engagement opportunities offered through JEP, as well as other resources for faculty who are interested in implementing community-based learning.
For this Fall 2025 Faculty Showcase on Experiential Learning, Anastassia Tzoytzoyrakos, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, American Language Institute, describes a collaboration with the Joint Educational Project program that supports graduate students’ language learning through teaching and tutoring in community K-12 schools.
In this Fall 2025 Faculty Showcase on Experiential Learning, Kiel Shaub, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences (Physical Education & Mind Body Health), outlines opportunities for project-based learning grounded in faculty research through the EXL Lab at the Office of Experiential and Applied Learning.
For this Fall 2025 Faculty Showcase on Experiential Learning, Hannah Maryanski Kiszla, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences (Wrigley Institute for Environment and Sustainability), highlights opportunities for faculty in a variety of disciplines to engage in experiential learning at the USC campus on Catalina Island.
In this Fall 2025 Faculty Showcase on Experiential Learning, Chelsea Graham, USC Office of Sustainability, gives an overview of the Exploring Sustainability through Campus Living Labs (ExSCLL) program, which gives students an opportunity to apply academic skills to a variety of sustainability projects on campus.
For this Fall 2025 Faculty Showcase on Experiential Learning, Sean Fraga, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences (Environmental Studies and History), demonstrates how students connect to global coastal environmental history through physical water and land-based exploration of Catalina Island.
In this Fall 2025 Faculty Showcase on Experiential Learning, Phil Ethington, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences (Spatial Sciences Institute), shares a learning experience where students connect to the indigenous history of LA by taking part in a guided walk from reconstructed maps indigenous roadways and sites across the USC campus.
For this Fall 2025 Faculty Showcase on Experiential Learning, Jorge Barraza, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences (Psychology), describes experiential learning opportunities in collaboration with university sustainability partners for students in the Master of Science in Applied Psychology program.
For this Spring 2025 Faculty Showcase on AI in Teaching, Helen Choi, Viterbi School of Engineering, shares her “What’s your p(doom)?” assignment in which students make and justify a personal calculation of the probability of “doom” (e.g., social, environmental, political, economic collapse) in relation to AI technology. Keywords: AI, artificial intelligence.
For this Spring 2025 Faculty Showcase on AI in Teaching, Elisabeth Arnold Weiss, Viterbi School of Engineering, shares the design principles and learning impact of her “Future Stories Project” assignment in which students compose two complementary narratives that envision the future of the LA Memorial Coliseum: one using traditional written storytelling and the other using AI image generation tools. Keywords: AI, artificial intelligence.
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