For Current Students

OVERVIEW: the Five Years of the Graduate Program

First Year

• US Citizens and Permanent Residents: Immediately establish California residency to avoid paying tuition in your second year: how-to page
• Getting Oriented in the department
• M.A. requirements Fall 2018
• If You Have an M.A. from Elsewhere
• If You Did Previous Graduate Work Elsewhere (without an M.A.)
• If You Did Previous Graduate Work at UCLA
• Practical Phonetics Exam
• Historical Linguistics Requirement
• TA’ing Requirements

Second Year

• OVERVIEW: Second year
• CHECKLIST: Second year requirements
• Finishing Your M.A.
• Foreign Language Requirement (no longer in force)
• A Second Area of Specialization?

Third-Fourth Year

• Guidance Committee
• Coursework / Prospectus / Orals / Doctoral Committee

Fifth Year

• Finishing the Dissertation
• Applying for Academic Jobs in Linguistics
• More on Job Application (by Prof. Robert Port)

Advisers

• Linguistics Graduate Advisers
• Adviser on Sabbatical?

Courses

• THE STUDY LIST
• Currently Offered Courses
• The Twelve Commandments of Registration
• Enrolling in Lots of Units

Financial

• Grad Student Financial Support
• Grad Student Fellowship Opportunities
• Financial Incentives to Apply for Fellowships
• Ladefoged Scholarship Awards
• Conference Travel
• Summer School Funding
• Funding for consultants and experimental subjects

Graduate Teaching

• TA’ing Requirements
• TA Workloads
• TAships in the Department of Linguistics
• Official Department TAship policy
• Summer Teaching

Miscellaneous

• THE STUDY LIST
• Grad. Division Publications and Forms
• GLC: The Graduate Linguistics Circle
• Graduate Student Guide 18-19
• Research resources available to graduate students
• Linguistics TA Duties

Outside Links

• Official Requirements of the Linguistics Graduate Program
• Home Page of the UCLA Graduate Division
• NSF Graduate Fellowship Application Forms
• Being a Good Graduate Student (by Marie desJardins)