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Foreign Language Requirement
Overview of the program
Foreign language requirement
Course requirements for the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees
Master’s paper
Field examinations
Field examination schedule
Oral qualifying examinations
500-series course limitations
Final oral examination following completion of the dissertation
Time to degree
Candidate in philosophy degree
Disqualification and appeal of disqualification
Advising
Ethical Code of Conduct for Graduate Students and Graduate Student Instructors
For detailed course descriptions, please refer to UCLA General Catalog
There is no departmental foreign language requirement for the Master's or the Ph.D. degrees. However, specific field examination areas may require students to demonstrate mastery of a language other than English before taking that field exam. Students may demonstrate proficiency in another language by one of the following means: completing, with a grade of B or better, two years of undergraduate courses in the language selected or intermediate level at UCLA (e.g., Spanish 5), or completing, with a grade of "Pass" two quarters of a graduate reading course offered by a UCLA language department (1G, 2G series). International students whose native language is other than English may offer English as their second language simply by notifying the coordinator of the relevant field exam and the Graduate Affairs Advisor.