Majors & Minors

The Master of Urban Planning/Master of Real Estate Development dual degree program enables students to expand their skills in planning, land development, market analysis, finance and economics. Exposure to both fields becomes an educational as well as a professional asset for careers in either real estate development or urban planning. This dual degree program normally requires five semesters, including one summer, in residence.

Requirements

A total of 74 units is required for the dual degree, all from within the Price School of Public Policy.

A minor in materials science is open to all undergraduate students in engineering. This minor provides students with the background and skills necessary to understand and use advanced materials in different engineering applications. Students are required to complete a minimum of 19 units of course work consisting of both core requirements and elective courses. Students must include at least four upper division courses of either three or four units in the minor program.

Students must apply to the Viterbi School of Engineering for the minor; departmental approval is required. The program is outlined as follows:

The "big data deluge" continues to change the fabric of research and discovery in both science and industry. The minor in Mathematical Data Analytics offered by the department of Mathematics trains students on the foundational underpinnings of this area, including practical implementation for handling of real data. Students completing this minor will absorb a true understanding of the conditions under which the current methods that are applied to data give valid results, and so will be able to more easily adapt their analyses to the proper methods, and avoid common errors being currently made in the area by which investigators falsely conclude the significance of their findings. This minor is complementary to the department's Statistics Minor, but requires more mathematical background in order to reach a greater depth.

As with all minors, students must include at least four upper-division courses and four courses dedicated exclusively to this minor (which may be the same four courses). Students who complete courses required for this minor for the satisfaction of degree requirements in their major program, such as students in MATH, may satisfy the minor requirement of four classes outside their major department by choosing courses from a list of electives maintained by MATH.

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This interdisciplinary minor was created for students in business, economics and mathematics, whose majors already require some of the introductory course work. Students in other programs are welcome but should expect the minor to require more units than it does for students in those programs.

As with all minors, students must include at least four upper-division courses and four courses dedicated exclusively to this minor (which may be the same four courses). Finally, students must select four courses outside their major department. Economics majors must choose four courses outside of economics; math majors must choose four courses outside of math; business majors must choose four courses outside of the Marshall School of Business. These may be the same courses used to meet the first two conditions.

Students are required to take seven courses in economics, seven courses in mathematics and two courses in information technology.

The Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering offers a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering. The requirement for the degree is 132 units. A cumulative grade point average of C (2.0) is required in all upper division courses applied toward the major, regardless of the department in which the courses are taken. See the common requirements for undergraduate degrees section.

The minor in Media and Social Change provides the opportunity for students who are interested in media content creation and research to take classes in a focused curriculum on the various aspects of media for change. Students will gain insight into the professional practices of creating media content, analyzing existing content, and learning how they can influence the future by integrating social issues into the work they are doing in related fields.

Information about declaring the minor, courses and other program offerings can be obtained by emailing the Media Arts and Practice program at map@cinema.usc.edu.