Social Justice at DUPSA
The Department of Urban Planning and Spatial Analysis is committed to infusing social justice into all that we do. Several years ago, we came together as faculty, staff and students with a unified goal to overhaul our department and expand this core value into more classes, initiatives, student organizations, and more. Today, we build upon our successful track record thus far and rededicate our intention to continue growing.
Below are a few examples of how social justice is an integral part of USC Price’s Department of Urban Planning and Spatial Analysis.
Example Courses:
PPDE 664 – Seminar in Social Justice and Public Policy
PPD 616 – Participatory Methods in Planning and Policy
PPDE 661 – Methods for Equity Analysis
PPD 606 – Urban Health Policy
PPD 686 – U.S. Immigration Policy
PPDE 630 – Community Health Planning
PPDE 663 – Media for Policy Change
PPDE 636 – Urban Spatial Ethnography and Critical Cartography
Faculty Research
Restorative Justice Planning theory, Lisa Schweitzer:Initiatives
RAP: Race, Arts, and Placemaking
USC Price hosted the ACSP’s first urban planning diversity pipeline summer programs
Student Organizations
ASPD: Associated Students of Planning and Development
SCAPF: Students of Color and Allies Policy Forum
Price Latino Student Association
Price Society of Black Students
Featured Student or Alumni
La Mikia Castillo, Founder and Principal, Castillo Consulting Partners USC Price story on La Mikia
USC Price Resources
- Safe Communities Institute
“The Safe Communities Institute (SCI) at the USC Price School of Public Policy continues a more than 60-year tradition of research, interdisciplinary education, and collaboration to advance sustainable “whole-of-community” public safety strategies, policies, and programs. SCI takes a holistic approach to encouraging and informing public safety efforts through collaboration between all public safety disciplines and the communities they serve.”