UCLA Linguistics TA Application
UCLA Dept. of Linguistics		               Date ____________________________

APPLICATION FOR LINGUISTICS TASHIPS FOR STUDENTS OUTSIDE THE LINGUISTICS DEPARTMENT

Submit this application to: 
Director of Graduate Studies, UCLA Department of Linguistics, CAMPUS 154302 (if you're using campus mail), or
Director of Graduate Studies, UCLA Department of Linguistics, Box 951543, 3125 Campbell Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1543 (if you're using regular mail).
Applications may also be brought in person to Natasha Levy (natasha@humnet.ucla.edu) in 3125 Campbell.

I. Basic Information Name: UCLA Student ID#: Social Security #: E-mail: Phone: Mailing Address:

Other contact information (for example, other addresses we can reach you; times you will be at those addresses): II. Availability Please check which quarters during the following academic year you are available, or think you are available, to serve as TA. For complicated answers, please list the issues at stake in the margin or in your application letter. Fall, 50% time ___ Fall, 25% time only ___ Winter, 50% time ___ Winter, 25% time only ___ Spring, 50% time ___ Spring, 25% time only ___ --------------------------------------- III. Hiring Information The following information will speed the process if we offer you a position as a TA;
if you cannot obtain this information right now, it is permissible to omit it, provided you can produce it promptly at hiring time. 1. If you have served as a UCLA TA, what is your rank (mark with X)? ___ Teaching Assistant ___ Teaching Associate ___ Teaching Fellow 2. Are you advanced to candidacy for a Ph.D. degree? ___ yes ___ no 3. Number of units you have taken at UCLA: ____ 4. Quarters of TA experience, not counting summer: ____ 5. Your home department: 6. Name and e-mail of the staff person who does hiring in your own department --------------------------------------- IV. Attachments You may attach any sort of materials you feel might help us judge your qualifications for TAing. Suggested materials include: * Resume * Summary of experience and interests * Your UCLA academic transcript (Xeroxed, non-official transcripts are acceptable) * Evaluation forms or summaries from previous teaching experience. It is usually helpful to provide a Xerox of every form on which students have made comments. * Letters of recommendation from former students, your own teachers, professors for who you have TA'd, or others qualified to judge your teaching.