OVERVIEW: the Five Years of the Graduate Program

First Year:

• MA Course Requirements
• CHECKLIST: First Year Requirements
• If You Have an MA from Elsewhere
• If You Did Previous Graduate Work Elsewhere (without an MA)
• If You Did Previous Graduate Work at UCLA
• Practical Phonetics Exam
• Historical Linguistics Requirement
• TA'ing Requirements
• Getting Oriented in the Department

Second Year:

• OVERVIEW: Second year
• CHECKLIST: Second year requirements
• Finishing Your M.A.
• Foreign Language Requirement
• 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:

• Study Lists
• 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
  
• 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:

• Starting a Web Page
• Grad. Division Publications and Forms
• GLC: The Graduate Linguistics Circle