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Patrick Dent Full-time Faculty

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Biography

A full-time lecturer in the USC Engineering School, Patrick Dent has taught New Media, Web development and database and programming courses at the University of Southern California since 1998.

He came to USC and teaching after working in graphic and web design, programming, and as a newspaper reporter and magazine writer.

Patrick evangelizes Web development technologies to students of all backgrounds, from business to computer science to music, trying to increase the skills of all students.

He acts as the faculty advisor to students in the Web Technologies and Applications minor.

Patrick thinks a thorough technical knowledge is useful to far more than just developers, but also to the project managers, creative types, and clients they work with.