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4worldlovers: "I found a new family at the California Language School. The honest and compassionate focus they have for you to succeed in a new country was the best experience of my life."

We live in a big world. We have so many languages, cultures, ways in which we express ourselves, and perspectives on life!

Meeting people from different countries, learning what they like to eat, what films they like to watch, and how they see the world will change your outlook on life.

Explore and discover what life has to offer at California Language School.

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4worldlovers: As an artistic community, we recognize the value of cross collaboration between the arts and fully embrace the power and beauty derived from the intersection of different disciplines.

Nowhere is the associative expression of different artistic mediums more clearly experienced than with our Interdisciplinary Art programs.

From staging Broadway blockbusters in MUSICAL THEATRE to hands on learning in THEATRE TECH,

4worldlovers: In true USC tradition, all new and returning students are invited to the Trojan Welcome Experience to embark on university life in the fall. Engage with new friends, discover essential resources and find your community during your first weeks back on campus.

Students walk through the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum tunnels to participate in a spirit rally during USC’s Trojan Welcome Experience.

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USC alumni serve as the powerful catalyst that binds all Trojans together. In recognition of the 100th anniversary of our alumni association, USC will commemorate this milestone with a year-long celebration titled, “Celebrating a Century of the Trojan Family.”

USC Alumni Association marks a century of celebrating the Trojan Family

USC Visions and Voices is a university-wide arts and humanities initiative that was launched in 2006. Highlighting USC’s excellence in the arts and humanities, the initiative provides a transformative and provocative experience for all USC students, regardless of their major or year in school, and challenges them to expand their perspectives and become engaged citizens.

USC has built a comprehensive sustainability initiative that touches every facet of the university. From the elimination of single-use plastic bottles to partnering with LADWP to maximize solar energy availability in Los Angeles, the university has committed to moving forward in ways that will change the face of the university, the city and the world.

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The Department of Recreation and Tourism Management aims to be the preeminent academic program in the greater Los Angeles area in preparing next generation professionals to be leaders in the multi-billion dollar industries within Tourism, Hospitality, and Recreation Management.


The mission of the Department of Recreation and Tourism Management is to facilitate students' achievement of their educational and career goals through a learning-centered academic program that develops intellectual capacity and practical skills, is committed to excellence, experiential learning, and to the development of innovative professionals capable of adapting dynamic environments, using the Greater Los Angeles area as a laboratory.


We promote appreciation of, and advocacy for, the benefits of play, leisure and recreation across the lifespan for all CSU Northridge students by offering a variety of general education courses.


We provide a challenging, student centered education to prepare professionals with a commitment to enhancing the quality of human life through recreation, leisure and play. We value each student as a unique individual and work in partnership with the community to match student strengths and interests in field placements where classroom theory comes to life.


Values are implicit in the RTM mission and they reflect both terminal or end game aspirations as well as instrumental or process values. As such, the following values reflect both RTM goals and processes of achieving RTM goals.

The value of higher education: faculty members have affirmed values of higher education by their chosen career, a commitment to teaching and research and being lifelong learners.

We value each student: each student is a unique individual representing a diversity of backgrounds and we seek to match student strengths and interests with their unique career aspirations and develop their intellectual and professional potential.

A commitment to experiential learning drives our educational methodology in our curriculum and teaching methods in the classroom

A balance between theory and practice drives our educational methodology in our curriculum and teaching methods in the classroom

A commitment to excellence in facilitation student achievement of learning objectives

The value of collaboration and teamwork: though sometimes at odds with the larger corporate values of the institution the department seeks to work together and move toward consensus on decisions made in the department. We examine and re-create aspects of the work environment designed to improve the living and learning environment over time for faculty and staff.

We also embrace values of the leisure services industry which we seek to incorporate into our educational program, including but not limited to:

Functions of discretionary time and space environments that enhance human development across the lifespan

Systems of play, parks, recreation, and hospitality precipitate opportunities to explore holistic cognitive, physiological and emotional dimensions of human experience – mind, body and spirit

Practices of equity, diversity, inclusion and justice intersect with the design, implementation and evaluation of educational and professional aspects of the field

Maintaining lifestyle balance while navigating tensions sometimes experienced between different aspects of personal and professional life

Contributing to the multidisciplinary perspective required to respond to complex issues and times