Teaching Assistantships in the Department of Linguistics

The UCLA Department of Linguistics sometimes has TAships available to offer to graduate students outside the department, particularly for Linguistics 1 and other lower-division courses.  Linguistics TAships are typically 50% time effort; positions come with automatic fee remission benefits (which covers all almost quarterly registration fees).

Interested students in all linguistics-related graduate programs at UCLA are encouraged to apply. Applications should be submitted by June 1st to be considered for the following academic year. (Applications submitted after this date will be accepted, to be kept on file if a position becomes available.)

The selection criteria are:

·         Evidence of sufficient knowledge of linguistics

·         Evidence of expertise and talent in teaching, particularly of younger students (hence any high school teaching experience should be mentioned).

Applicants must meet UCLA's TA eligibility requirements:

 

(1)    Cumulative GPA of at least 3.0

(2)    No more than 12 quarters of overall TA employment

(3)    Enrollment in at least 12 units in the quarter in which you TA

(4)    International and permanent resident graduate students whose first language is not English must pass the campus administered Test of Oral Proficiency [TOP] (prior to applying for a Linguistics TAship)

 

More information about UCLA's TA policies is available on the Academic Apprentice Personnel Manual available on the Graduate Division website:

http://www.gdnet.ucla.edu/gss/appm/aapmstudent.pdf

 

 

 

To apply, fill out the application form:

Subject to a reasonable total length, applicants may include along with the official application any sort of material that would bear on the above criteria, including:

·         Application letter outlining experience and interests

·         Resume

·         Their own academic transcripts (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.

All of these are optional, and it is understood that different applicants will have different strengths.  No single criterion is used in making the Department's selections.

Applications may be submitted via:

E-mail:

linguist@lists.ucla.edu

 

Campus mail:

UCLA Department of Linguistics Student Affairs

Mail Code 154302

 

Regular mail:

UCLA Department of Linguistics Student Affairs

Box 951543

3125 Campbell Hall

Los Angeles, CA  90095-1543

 

In person:

UCLA Department of Linguistics Student Affairs

3125A Campbell Hall

If you have any questions regarding these Teaching Assistant positions or how to apply for them, please feel free to contact the Linguistics Department's Student Affairs Officer or the Director of Graduate Studies.

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