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Students in the Exploration of Architecture summer program pose in a group on top of the Walt Disney Concert Hall, with the skyline of Los Angeles in the background.

Exploration of Architecture

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Sketch to Prototype: An Introduction to Designing and Developing Products

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Analytics: The Power of Data for Businesses

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Bitcoin and AI: Unlocking the Future of Finance and Technology

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Building Sustainable Businesses

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Exploring Entrepreneurship

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Introduction to Business

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Know Your Customer, Spot the Trend, Tell the Story

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Discover Engineering

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Global Health: Investigating Outbreaks, Preventing Disease

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International Relations

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Digital Media Practice, Production and Literacy

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Multiplatform Sports Storytelling

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Storytelling in the Digital Age

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Summer Theatre Conservatory: Acting Intensive

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Summer Theatre Conservatory: Comedy Performance

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Guitar Seminar: Jazz, Rock and Beyond

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Summer Theatre Conservatory: Musical Theatre

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Health and Healing: Writing the Medical Humanities

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Psychological Science and Society

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The Brain: Introduction to Neuroscience

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The Science of Food, Nutrition and the Biological World

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Legal Reasoning and Argumentation

Students in USC's "Storytelling in the Digital Age" pre-college program conduct an interview for their class. Pre-college programs are one method to maximize summer break in high school.

Civic Futures Lab: Research, Dialogue and Action for the Common Good

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Hotter Planet, Fairer Futures: Communities and Climate Action

A student in the "Creative Writing Workshop" summer program sits on a bench in The Huntington gardens, looking at a laptop with her chin propped on her hand and a backpack next to her.

Creative Writing Workshop

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Ethics in the 21st Century: Business, Politics and Technology

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The Philosophy of Economic Markets, Money and Property