For Current Students
OVERVIEW: the Five Years of the Graduate Program
First Year
- US Citizens and Permanent Residents: How to immediately establish California residency to avoid paying tuition in your second year
- Getting Oriented in the department
- Our department representation: The Graduate Linguistics Circle
- M.A. requirements Fall 2019
- 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- Foreign Language Requirement (no longer in force)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
Fifth Year
- Finishing the Dissertation
- Applying for Academic Jobs in Linguistics
- More on Job Application (by Prof. Robert Port)
Advisers
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
- Linguistics TA Duties
- Departmental TA Evaluation Form
- Summer Teaching
Miscellaneous
- THE STUDY LIST
- Grad. Division Publications and Forms
- Graduate Student Guide 19-20
- Guide to taking a leave of absence (a departmental document)
- Research resources available to graduate students