地质科学哲学博士

对于获得硕士学位的学生，博士学位要求的最低课程学分数为40个单位。在794博士论文中，不得获得超过四个这样的单元。对于未获得硕士学位的学生，课程要求的最低学分为60学分，其中最多8学分的794博士论文。合格的考试委员会可能需要进行其他课程工作，以确保在学生的专业领域有足够的背景知识。学位授予的单位数量中至少有三分之二必须为500级或更高。尽管在南加州大学尝试的所有研究生工作的官方最低GPA为3.0，但除非研究生GPA大大高于最低GPA（在该部门修读的研究生课程中约为3.25或更高），否则本部门不会认为具有
We pioneered the field of public interest legal education with the first modern legal aid program - the Legal Clinic at USC, founded in 1929 - in which students gained hands-on training in the delivery of legal services to the poor. It became a model for other law schools across the country. By the time the clinic evolved into the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles in 1937, our students and faculty had assisted more than 19,000 clients from dozens of countries. Later, in the 1960s, USC Gould housed what would become California's oldest and largest legal services support center - the Western Center on Law and Poverty, which is still going strong.