USC offers America 101 for foreign students

The topic was baseball and the class members, foreign graduate students recently arrived in the United States to attend USC, were befuddled.

Not only were they struggling to follow the instructor's litany of batting and pitching rules, they were mystified by the title of the hallowed championship games. Why is it called the World Series, one Chinese student wondered aloud, if all the teams in it are from North America?

Read the complete story about how the University of Southern California help their foreign graduate students understand the American culture, such as baseball, tailgate parties, and couch potato, in the online edition of Los Angeles Times.