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Doctoral

Linguistics MA, CPhil, PhD

University of California, Los Angeles College of Letters and Science 77 courses

About This Program

The program as a whole is intended to lead to a PhD degree, and admits only applicants who have this goal. Internally, however, the program consists of two stages, an MA stage and a PhD stage. All students are required to earn the MA degree in Linguistics at UCLA as a prerequisite to doctoral advancement to candidacy, even if the student has a master’s degree from another institution in the same or a closely allied field of study.

Degree Requirements

Linguistics Graduate Courses

Graduate courses UCLA's General Catalog lists for this department. This is not a degree plan; requirements are set by the program.

Code Course Title Credits
LING 200A Phonological Theory I 4
LING 200B Syntactic Theory I 4
LING 200C Semantic Theory I 4
LING 201A Phonological Theory II 2 or 4
LING 201B Syntactic Theory II 2 or 4
LING 201C Semantic Theory II 2 or 4
LING 202 Language Change 4
LING 203 Phonetic Theory 4
LING 204B Speech Production 4
LING 204C Speech Perception 2 to 4
LING 205 Morphological Theory 4
LING 207 Pragmatic Theory 2 or 4
LING 208 Mathematical Structures in Language I 5
LING 209A Computational Linguistics I 5
LING 209B Computational Linguistics II 5
LING 209C Computational Semantics 4
LING 210A Field Methods I 4
LING 210B Field Methods II 4
LING 212 Learnability Theory 4
LING 213A Grammatical Development 4
LING 213B Brain Bases for Language 4
LING 213C Linguistic Processing 4
LING 214 Survey of Current Syntactic Theories 4
LING 215 Syntactic Typology 2 or 4
LING 216 Syntactic Theory III 2 or 4
LING 217 Experimental Phonology 4
LING 218 Mathematical Structures in Language II 4
LING 219 Phonological Theory III 2 or 4
LING 220 Linguistic Areas 4
LING 222 Semantic Theory III 2 or 4
LING 225 Linguistic Structures 4
LING 230 History of Linguistics 4
LING 232 Language Processing 5
LING 233 Language Development 5
LING 236 Computational Phonology 4
LING 239 Research Design and Statistical Methods 2 or 4
LING 251 Topics in Phonetics and Phonology 2 or 4
LING 252 Topics in Syntax and Semantics 2 or 4
LING 253 Topics in Language Variation 2 or 4
LING 254 Topics in Linguistics 2 or 4
LING 260A Seminar: Phonetics 2 or 4
LING 260B Seminar: Phonetics 2 or 4
LING 260C Seminar: Phonetics 2 or 4
LING 261A Seminar: Phonology 2 or 4
LING 261B Seminar: Phonology 2 or 4
LING 261C Seminar: Phonology 2 or 4
LING 262A Syntax Seminar 2 or 4
LING 262B Syntax Seminar 2 or 4
LING 262C Syntax Seminar 2 or 4
LING 263 Seminar: Semantics 2 or 4
LING 264A Seminar: Psycholinguistics/Neurolinguistics 2 or 4
LING 264B Seminar: Psycholinguistics/Neurolinguistics 2 or 4
LING 264C Seminar: Psycholinguistics/Neurolinguistics 2 or 4
LING 265A American Indian Linguistics Seminar 1 or 4
LING 265B American Indian Linguistics Seminar 1 or 4
LING 265C American Indian Linguistics Seminar 1 or 4
LING 266 Seminar: Sociolinguistics 2 or 4
LING 275 Linguistics Colloquium 4
LING 276 Linguistics Colloquium 0
LING 403 Practical Phonetics Training 1
LING 411A Research Orientation 2
LING 411B Research Orientation 2
LING 422 Practicum: Phonetic Data Analysis 2
LING 444 MA Thesis Preparation Seminar 4
LING 495 College Teaching of Linguistics 2
LING 596A Directed Studies 1 to 8
LING 596B Directed Linguistic Analysis 1 to 8
LING 597 Preparation for MA Comprehensive and PhD Qualifying Examinations 1 to 8
LING 598 Research for MA Thesis 1 to 8
LING 599 Research for PhD Dissertation 1 to 16
LING C204A Experimental Phonetics 5
LING C211 Intonation 5
LING C228A Romance Syntax: French 4
LING C228B Romance Syntax: French 4
LING C235 Neurolinguistics 5
LING C244 Bilingualism and Second Language Acquisition 5
LING M238 Analyzing Historical Texts 4

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