The major combines the basic courses of the general linguistics program with that of East Asian languages and cultures. Students are able to study the civilizations of China, Korea, Japan, and India; and enrich their knowledge about the nature, grammar, and history of human language at the same time.

Transfer applicants to the Linguistics and Asian Languages and Cultures major with 90 or more units must complete as many of the following introductory courses as possible prior to admission to UCLA: two years of either Chinese, Japanese, or Korean, one introduction to linguistics course, one cultural anthropology course, one Chinese, Japanese, or Korean civilization course, and one year of a second foreign language.
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Students who complete an advanced upper-division language course are considered to have completed the equivalent of whatever courses are requisite to that advanced language course (e.g., if students complete German 152, they have automatically satisfied the requirement of the sixth level of work in German).

Students may select a specialization in Computing by (1) satisfying all the requirements for a bachelor&rsquo;s degree in the specified major and (2) completing Program in Computing 10A and 10B and 10C (or Computer Science 31 and 32), Linguistics 185A, Mathematics 61, and one course selected from Linguistics 104, 127, 132, 165A, 165B, 165C, 180, 185B. Students graduate with a bachelor&rsquo;s degree in their major and a specialization in Computing.

A 2.0 grade-point average in linguistics courses is required for the major.

Required: Anthropology 4, Linguistics 20, and either Chinese 50, Japanese 50, or Korean 50, as appropriate; completion of the equivalent to the sixth level in either Chinese, Japanese, or Korea, and the equivalent to the third level of a second foreign language.

Departmental honors are awarded at graduation to those students who have a grade-point average of 3.6 or better in their junior and senior years and who have received a grade of A in Linguistics 198A and 198B or in 199. Qualified students may be proposed by any member of the faculty to the faculty as a whole for the award of highest honors on the basis of a piece of research in linguistics completed at UCLA.

Required: Eleven upper-division courses as follows: Linguistics 103, 110, 120A, 120B, 165A (or 165B), one upper-division elective course in the Linguistics Department (minimum 4 graded units); for the Chinese track: Chinese 100A, 100B, 100C (or 100D, 100E, 100F; or 100I), two courses from Asian 104, Chinese 101A, 101B, 101C, 103, 110A, 110B, 110C, C120, 130A, 130B, 165; for the Japanese track: Japanese 100A, 100B, 100C (or 100S), two courses from Asian 104, Japanese 101A, 101B, 101C, 110A, 110B, M120, CM123 (or CM127), 130A, 130B; for the Korean track: Korean 100A, 100B, 100C, two courses from Asian 104, Korean 101A, 101B, 101C, 103A, 103B, 103C, C105A, C105B, C105C, CM120, CM127.

College of Letters and Science

Ability to apply critical thinking skills through linguistic data analysis in phonetics, phonology, syntax, and at least one other subfield

Ability to access scholarly literature on language structure and use it in research

Ability to write technical material in linguistics, including language description and theory-based analysis

Understanding of advanced theoretical concepts and/or analytical techniques in at least one subfield

General Catalog

Linguistics and Asian Languages and Cultures BA