The Department hosts a graduate student listserv that is exclusively for you and your colleagues in the program: linggrad@lists.ucla.edu. You email address will be added to the listserv late June/early July. Please inform the Grad SAO if your email address has been updated or you prefer to receive emails from another address.
Proseminars are advanced graduate special-topics courses, with course numbers in the 250 range. Most faculty offer proseminar courses in their area approximately once per year, often on the topic of their current research.
Be sure to check the Department's Events calendar for upcoming programs and schedule of area seminars. Area Seminars are informal talk series, meeting once per week, in which faculty and students present their current research to colleagues for comment and discussion. Currently, there are active area seminars in phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics, psycholinguistics, and Native American languages.
We have a conference room on the second floor (2122) and a lounge on the third floor (3103C). Each floor has its own seminar room (the Syntax/Semantics Seminar Room in 3103D, the Phonetics Lab in 2101K).
The Reading Room houses the departmental collection of books, journals and manuscripts. It is open to students and faculty of the department. The collection was begun by the Graduate Linguistics Circle as its first project in 1962; additions have been made (and continue to be made) every year. In addition to books and journals, the reading room also houses copies of Linguistics Department Ph.D. dissertations and M.A. theses. Linguistics instructors also frequently put class readings on reserve in the Reading Room.
Weekly Announcements from the Graduate SAO are sent every Monday during the 10 weeks + finals week of each academic quarter. This includes featured announcements, upcoming events/trainings/workshops, and funding and employment opportunities.
This is not an exhaustive list
Resources for Students in Financial Crisis (Economic Crisis Response Team)
Access here. This is an interactive flowchart created by the UCLA Graduate Student Association (GSA).
New UCLA students may need to wait until the start of Fall quarter to access these UCLA sponsored services as matriculation is only effective Fall.
Google Apps for UCLA is a suite of hosted email and collaboration applications for schools, universities, and non-profit organizations. This suite of services includes Gmail (Google’s email service), Google Calendar, Google Docs (Google’s web-based office software suite), and more.
UCLA provides a free enterprise Box account to all faculty, staff, and students. Currently, a UCLA enterprise Box account comes with unlimited storage space for faculty, staff and students. All accounts offer a 15 gigabyte per file upload limit and other enterprise features such as version history.
Zoom is the primary approved software tool for remote live and recorded academic sessions and meetings. When logging into the Desktop Application, please type in ucla when asked for your company/organization domain.
UCLA Career Services for Masters and PhD Students, and Postdoctoral Scholars: UCLA Career Services hosts events, opportunities, and workshops for professional development.
ImaginePhD is a free online career exploration and planning tool for PhD students and postdoctoral scholars in the humanities and social sciences.
Versatile PhD - The Versatile PhD mission is to help humanities, social science, and STEM graduate students identify and prepare for possible non-academic careers. We want them to be informed about academic employment realities, educated about non-academic career options, and supported towards a wide range of careers, so that in the end, they have choices.
"The Early-Stage Ph.D.'s Guide to Summer" (Inside Higher Ed article)
The Professor Is In - Getting You Through Graduate School, The Job Market and Tenure…
Get a Life, PhD - Succeed in Academia and Have a Life Too
Experiment: Experiment is a platform for students and faculty to crowdfund small projects. The company was founded by a young scientist who hit the walls on traditional funding sources and figured out a way to fund small projects through crowdsourcing.
Cold Turkey: Cold Turkey is a productivity program that you can use to temporarily block yourself off of popular social media sites, addicting websites and games so that you can get your work done!
SelfControl: SelfControl is a free and open-source application for Mac OS X that lets you block your own access to distracting websites, your mail servers, or anything else on the Internet. Just set a period of time to block for, add sites to your blacklist, and click "Start." Until that timer expires, you will be unable to access those sites--even if you restart your computer or delete the application.
StayFocusd: StayFocusd is a productivity extension for Google Chrome that helps you stay focused on work by restricting the amount of time you can spend on time-wasting websites. Once your allotted time has been used up, the sites you have blocked will be inaccessible for the rest of the day.
The UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center offers several free, short mindfulness practices on their website. They also offer classes in series and as daylong retreats.
Meditation Oasis is a website offering lots of resources, including a free weekly podcast of guided practices. Especially recommend are "Simply Being" (8:01), "Letting Go" (15:15), "Effortless Meditation" (12:36), and Relief from Stress and Pressure (22:57). "Breath Awareness Meditation" (9:27) is a good introductory practice to mindful awareness with a focus on breathing. Visit their website or on the iTunes store (search "Meditation Oasis").