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Architecture

The USC School of Architecture fuses history, theory, technology and design into a variety of degree programs that prepare students for the rigors of the professional design practices.

Art and Design

The USC Roski School of Art and Design's faculty are internationally recognized artists who offer a progressive approach for experimentation in all forms of visual arts.

Cinematic Arts

The USC School of Cinematic Arts trains fully-formed media makers, collaborators, and scholars situated to flourish in their chosen career path.

Dance

The USC Kaufman School of Dance is at the forefront of creating a new model for dance—a hybrid art form expressed in new media, scholarship, studio practice, music, choreography and performance.

Dramatic Arts

The USC School of Dramatic Arts' conservatory environment blends with the full academic experience found at a major research university.

Music

The USC Thornton School of Music consistently ranks among the top one percent of the nation’s music schools and conservatories.

Arts Events

  • Feb 21
    7:30 pm

    USC School of Dramatic Arts presents: THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA

    Bing Theatre (BIT)
  • Feb 22
    7:00 pm

    RACE RELAY® A Community Dialogue about Race Relations

    California African American Museum
  • Feb 22
    7:30 pm

    USC School of Dramatic Arts presents: CHILDREN OF THE SUN

    Scene Dock Theatre (SCD)

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USC Visions & Voices: The Arts and Humanities Initiative

Highlighting the university’s commitment to interdisciplinary approaches, the initiative features a spectacular array of events conceived and organized by faculty and schools throughout the university. Every Visions and Voices event is designed to challenge students and expand their perspectives. View the 2018-2019 schedule.

News

  • USC Kaufman School of Dance students are preparing for a showcase in New York. (USC Photo/Mark Rivard)

    USC Kaufman dance students prepare for New York debut

    February 20, 2019

    The showcase at the historic Joyce Theater celebrates the first four years of USC Kaufman, which will graduate its first class in May.

  • USC expert Dorinne Kondo says representation of marginalized communities is important because identities are formed through entertainment like watching sports, theatre, TV, YouTube and music. (Photo/iStock)

    Why it’s important to see marginalized communities in pop culture

    February 20, 2019

    As the Oscars near, USC anthropologist and playwright Dorinne Kondoto argues that we all need to be "mirrored" in popular culture, media and the arts.

  • Photo courtesy of Enrique Martinez Celaya

    USC’s Enrique Martínez Celaya Explores the Ties Between Art, Science and Philosophy

    February 15, 2019

    The physicist turned artist crosses disciplines -- and time periods -- with his work.

  • Love in the Victorian era depicted in paintings by Edward Burne-Jones, Marie Spartali Stillman, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (both 3rd and 4th paintings) and Simeon Solomon, from left. (Composite/Dennis Lan)

    Surprises from the past: What 5 paintings reveal about how our view of love has changed

    February 14, 2019

    The modern Valentine card was born in Victorian England in a time when weight put on marriages based on love and companionship as opposed to convenience, strategic alliances or money.

  • Leave No Trace and A Very English Scandal win USC Libraries’ Scripter Awards

    February 11, 2019

    The award, in its 31st year, recognizes the year's best adaptation for the screen and honors the original author as well as the screenwriter.

  • Jazz Studies alumnus John Daversa (DMA ’09) won three Grammy Awards in 2019. (Photo/Courtesy of John Daversa)

    USC Thornton alumni take home Grammy Awards

    February 11, 2019

    Trojan honors at Sunday's ceremony include Record of the Year and Song of the Year.

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USC ART SCHOOLS

School of Architecture
School of Cinematic Arts
Roski School of Art and Design
Thornton School of Music
School of Dramatic Arts
Glorya Kaufman School of Dance

Arts Programming

  • Visions and Voices
  • Libraries
  • Fisher Museum of Art
  • Pacific Asia Museum
  • Classical KUSC
  • Cultural Tour: The Gamble House

Additional Arts Programs

  • Arts Journalism
  • Creative Writing
  • International Artists Program

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