USC Scavenger Hunt
ARLT101: 1st Mini-Project Topic
Scavenger Hunt of USC Campus and Neighborhood or of Downtown Los Angeles
Complete either (A) a scavenger hunt of the USC campus and University Park neighborhood or (B) a scavenger hunt of downtown Los Angeles.
At the end of completing your hunt, write a short essay (1 page) in which you explain the most interesting item you discovered by doing this scavenger hunt.
Note: The scavenger hunt project should be typed
Complete either (A) a scavenger hunt of downtown Los Angeles or (B) a scavenger hunt of the USC campus and North University Park.
A. USC Scavenger Hunt
Complete the 52 items for the USC Scavenger hunt below.
Write a short essay (1 page) in which you explain the most interesting item you discovered about the University of Southern California by doing this scavenger hunt.
1. Provide the name and briefly describe the major political scandal that involved Edward Doheny.
2. Doheny Library houses the Chow Tse-Tsung Memorial Seminar Room. Describe the location of this seminar room and describe a map on the wall in this wing of the library. Note also: Who is Chow Tse-Tsung.
3. On the main floor of Doheny Library, to the right of the circulation desk (or at the south end of the lobby), there is a special exhibit area. Above the door to this exhibit area is a quotation about the written word. Transcribe this quotation.
4. In glass cases in the lobby of the main floor of Doheny Library, there are a set of posters (with black background) that include quotations about the purpose or mission of libraries. Transcribe one of the quotes about libraries from one of these posters.
5. Provide the title of a book by Upton Sinclair that is set in Southern California in the 1920s and features a student at Southern Pacific University who is the son of a man who made a fortune in oil. The novel was published in 1927 and was very loosely adapted into a recent film entitled “There Will
Scavenger Hunt of USC Campus and Neighborhood or of Downtown Los Angeles
Complete either (A) a scavenger hunt of the USC campus and University Park neighborhood or (B) a scavenger hunt of downtown Los Angeles.
At the end of completing your hunt, write a short essay (1 page) in which you explain the most interesting item you discovered by doing this scavenger hunt.
Note: The scavenger hunt project should be typed
Complete either (A) a scavenger hunt of downtown Los Angeles or (B) a scavenger hunt of the USC campus and North University Park.
A. USC Scavenger Hunt
Complete the 52 items for the USC Scavenger hunt below.
Write a short essay (1 page) in which you explain the most interesting item you discovered about the University of Southern California by doing this scavenger hunt.
1. Provide the name and briefly describe the major political scandal that involved Edward Doheny.
2. Doheny Library houses the Chow Tse-Tsung Memorial Seminar Room. Describe the location of this seminar room and describe a map on the wall in this wing of the library. Note also: Who is Chow Tse-Tsung.
3. On the main floor of Doheny Library, to the right of the circulation desk (or at the south end of the lobby), there is a special exhibit area. Above the door to this exhibit area is a quotation about the written word. Transcribe this quotation.
4. In glass cases in the lobby of the main floor of Doheny Library, there are a set of posters (with black background) that include quotations about the purpose or mission of libraries. Transcribe one of the quotes about libraries from one of these posters.
5. Provide the title of a book by Upton Sinclair that is set in Southern California in the 1920s and features a student at Southern Pacific University who is the son of a man who made a fortune in oil. The novel was published in 1927 and was very loosely adapted into a recent film entitled “There Will