<p>i am 99.9% positive the diversity course MUST be taken at USC.</p>
<p>you cannot use your APs to get out of any of the CORE classes, but some of them will get you out of the theme courses (i used my AP chem to get out of the science theme course)</p>
<p>you can also double, or even triple-count classes. i got my diversity, humanities theme, and an upper-division major class out of the way by taking SPAN 413m this past semester.</p>
<p>also, i recommend taking CORE 103 your freshman year (spring) because it ALWAYS has a friday discussion, and you don’t want to be taking that your junior (as i will) or senior year. learned that the hard way. kept putting 103 off hoping that the next semester it wouldn’t have a friday discussion, but it always does. talked to my TO advisor and he said it will always have one because every department is required by the university to have friday classes, and this is how TO gets them in.</p>
<p>for all the other CORE classes, most have separate discussion sections (in addition to lecture), but i’ve been able to take all of them w/o discussion (every once in a while one of them will have combined lecture-discussion and i was sure to take that one)</p>