USC safety students enjoy opportunities in a wide range of industrial, service and governmental organizations. Recent graduates have been hired by such diversified firms and agencies as the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, UNOCAL, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Warner Brothers Studios, the city of Glendale, the Port of Los Angeles, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Hughes Aircraft, IBM, Rockwell International, the Farmers Insurance Group and the state of California.
USC safety and health students are assured a solid, well-rounded undergraduate education. The B.S. in Safety and Health is a multidisciplinary program which provides the education necessary to understand and use modern safety and health concepts to minimize risk. It uses the systems approach to hazard prevention which draws from such fields as technology management, human factors, health, environmental sciences and communications. Further curriculum enrichment is gained from the disciplines of engineering, education, law, physiology, psychology and the natural sciences.
| Pre-major requirements | Units | |
| MATH 118x | Fundamental Principles of the Calculus, or | |
| MATH 125 | Calculus I | 4 |
| MATH 208 | Elementary Probability and Statistics, or | |
| MATH 218 | Probability for Business | 4 |
| BISC 107L | Principles of Biology II | 4 |
| CHEM 105abL | General Chemistry, or | |
| CHEM 115abL | Advanced General Chemistry | 8 |
| ISE 115 | Production Methods | 3 |
| PDP 101x | Introduction to Computers and Data Processing | 4 |
| PHYS 135abL | Physics for the Life Sciences, or | |
| PHYS 151L | Fundamentals of Physics I: Mechanics, Waves, and Sound, and | 4 |
| PHYS 152 | Fundamentals of Physics II: Thermodynamics, Electricity, and Magnetism | 4 |
| PSYC 274 | Statistics I | 4 |
| Required courses | Units | |
| SASC 300 | Safety, Health and Environmental Management | 3 |
| SASC 320 | Safety Technology | 3 |
| SASC 324 | Fire Prevention and Protection | 3 |
| SASC 414 | Accident Investigation | 3 |
| SASC 422 | System Safety | 3 |
| SASC 456 | Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology | 3 |
| SASC 491 | Internship | 3-6 |
| HUFA 415 | Safety Training Development | 3 |
| HUFA 432 | Ergonomics and Information Processing | 3 |
| HUFA 441x | Ergonomics and Physical Performance | 3 |
| Technical electives | Units | |
| HUFA 312 | Industrial Psychology | 3 |
| HUFA 427x | Cognitive Performance in Human Factors | 3 |
| SASC 304 | Regulatory Aspects of Safety | 3 |
| SASC 416x | Aircraft Accident Investigation | 3 |
| SASC 430 | Safety Communications | 3 |
| SASC 450 | Aerospace Safety | 3 |
| SASC 453 | Risk Assessment Methods | 3 |
| SASC 454x | Survey of Aviation Safety Technology | 3 |
| SASC 457 | Process Safety Management | 3 |
| SASC 458 | Introduction to Radiation Protection | 3 |
| SASC 460 | Transportation Safety | 3 |
| SASC 480 | Community and Workplace Safety | 3 |
| SYMA 563 | Management of Information Systems | 3 |
| CHEM 322a | Organic Chemistry | 4 |
| ENE 400 | Introduction to Environmental Engineering | 3 |
| ENE 516 | Hazardous Waste Management | 3 |
| ENGR 302 | Politics, the Environment and Engineering | 4 |
| ISE 360 | Engineering Economy | 3 |
| ME 204 | Strength of Materials | 3 |
| ME 231 | Properties and Selection of Materials | 3 |
| ME 232 | Manufacturing Processes | 3 |
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