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.
Bobby Borg of the USC Thornton School of Music discusses how student teams can use fictional artist personas to collaboratively create innovative music marketing strategies during the February 2024 Faculty Showcase.
Tara Mastro of the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology discusses utilizing the power of group learning where student groups design a pitch for a public awareness campaign during the February 2024 Faculty Showcase.
Leonardo Morsut of the USC Keck School of Medicine discusses a strategy to structure group assignments for in-class activities using collaborative tools during the February 2024 Faculty Showcase.
During the February 2024 Faculty Showcase, Helen Choi of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering discusses a group assignment strategy where students work in small groups to improve Wikipedia articles in engineering or science and how this collaborative structure encourages good digital citizenship.
Julianna Kirschner of USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism discusses the development of collaborative sustainability work in a Small Group and Team Communication class with support from the Sustainability Across the Curriculum Grant during the February 2024 Faculty Showcase.
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