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UCLA’s Linguistics Department began as an interdepartmental graduate M.A. program in 1960; a Ph.D. program was introduced in 1962, and a B.A. program in 1965. The department was established in 1966, and has flourished ever since.

At the undergraduate level , the department currently administers twelve majors: Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Linguistics and Anthropology, Linguistics and Asian Languages and Cultures, Linguistics and Computer Science, Linguistics and English, Linguistics and French, Linguistics and Italian, Linguistics and Philosophy, Linguistics and Psychology, Linguistics and Scandinavian Languages, and Linguistics and Spanish. The department also offers a linguistics minor and a Specialization in Computing.

At the graduate level , the department offers M.A. and Ph.D. degree programs in Linguistics, and its faculty participate in interdepartmental Ph.D. programs in  Biomedical Engineering , American Indian Studies , Asia Insititute and African Studies . Our faculty and graduate program are internationally acclaimed, and we attract some of the best and brightest graduate students from this country and abroad, with a current graduate student population of between 40 students from ten countries.

The goal of the UCLA Linguistics Department’s program is to provide a basic education in the nature of human language and linguistic theory for undergraduates, and to train graduate students as university teachers and as researchers in the major areas of linguistics.

Theoretical Orientation

The department has a strong theoretical orientation committed to research in formal linguistic theory, addressing questions in the fields of phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics, and at the interfaces of these fields with the fields of psycholinguistics, computational linguistics, mathematical linguistics, historical linguistics, and the linguistic study of particular language areas (especially African languages and American Indian languages). A number of factors distinguish the UCLA linguistics department from other departments with similar emphases.

Linguistics as an empirical science uses cross-linguistic evidence to develop and test theories of human language. In keeping with this goal, the UCLA program is committed to training its graduate students to analyze primary data in the Field Methods sequence, in which the students work with a native speaker consultant of a little-studied language. Substantial opportunities to develop fieldwork skills and to test theoretical ideas against novel data are provided, along with department funding for native speaker consultants. Several of the faculty have long experience in fieldwork and provide practical guidance to students embarking on their own field study. Los Angeles is probably the most linguistically diverse city in the United States, thus providing a living laboratory for field work research.

Graduate Student Career Development

The UCLA Linguistics Department emphasizes the development of professional skills among its graduate students, particularly in presenting their own research at conferences and for publication. The present department budget offers travel funding for students to present papers whose work has been accepted for presentation at regional, national, and international conferences. The department also offers some funding to its graduate students to pay for native speaker consultants, experimental subjects, and other research expenses.

The Linguistics Department undertakes to provide support packages for all the students that it admits, with a support commitment five years, subject to maintenance of satisfactory academic standing. All support packages include the cost of tuition, fees, and a salary or living stipend; consult the department for current stipend levels. Almost all support packages involve a mixture of fellowship, Research Apprenticeship (RA), and Teaching Apprenticeship (TA) positions, spread out over the five year period.

We admit only as many students as can be supported. Prospective applicants should apply for an extramural fellowship (such as a Mellon Fellowship , Jacob K. Javits Fellowship , or National Science Foundation Fellowships (NSF) ; or an equivalent type of fellowship from another country, such as the Canadian SSHRC  fellowship) where possible. Prospective applicants who have been granted such fellowships generally have an excellent chance of admission.

Available financial awards vary from year to year. The following outlines the principal sources:

Fellowships

UCLA Fellowships – Pauley Fellowships, Cota-Robles Fellowships, and Departmental Fellowships are combined with a mixture of TA and RA appointments to make up the full support package. All students who have been advanced to candidacy for the Ph.D. are also eligible to apply for Dissertation-year Fellowships for their fifth year; these are awarded on a competitive (university-wide) basis. In recent years UCLA Linguistics graduate students have had considerable success in winning these fellowships.

National Resource Fellowships (Title VI) –for language and area studies: e.g. Africa, the Near East, Latin America, East Asia. Applications are selected by the relevant area studies centers and the department. (For information see the admissions packet.) Title VI fellowships require students to enroll for one 4-unit course per quarter in the relevant language area and include a stipend which is supplemented by additional departmental support (RAship, TAship, etc.) to bring them up to the general annual support level.

Teaching Apprenticeships

These are awarded to students on the basis of admissions fellowship commitments, timely progress in graduate work, student specialization, and need. They are normally available only to students in the second year of graduate study and beyond.

Upper Division Undergraduate Courses , some of which may be taken by students to make up deficiencies, include courses in phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics, syntactic typology and universals, language change, child language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and language disorders.

Graduate Courses   cover every major area of linguistics, including phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics, morphology, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics, field methods, historical linguistics, and language areas and language structures.

Proseminars  are advanced graduate special-topics courses in the areas mentioned above. Most faculty offer proseminar courses in their area approximately once per year, often on the topic of their current research.

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.

Additional courses in various topics, including thesis preparation, college teaching practicum and practical phonetics, are also regularly offered.

Degree Requirements

Although the department offers both the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees, each with its own set of requirements, completion of the M.A. degree is normally just a milestone towards the completion of the Ph.D. requirements. We normally admit students to the graduate program only if they have the Ph.D. as their ultimate degree objective, and new graduate students are normally admitted directly into the Ph.D. program, regardless of whether they have already completed an M.A. elsewhere.

Furthermore, all students, including those who already have an M.A. degree, are normally expected to complete all of the M.A. degree requirements at UCLA, as part of the normal progress toward the Ph.D. The M.A. requirements include six obligatory core courses, three additional courses selected by the student from a list of survey courses covering various areas of the field, and completion of an M.A. thesis or M.A. paper (an original work of research of approximately 50 double-spaced pages). Students who choose to withdraw from the program and who wish to receive a terminal M.A. degree may elect to undergo a comprehensive oral exam instead of completing an M.A. paper.

The Ph.D. requirements involve taking a few additional courses, including our two-quarter sequence in Field Methods and various seminar and proseminar courses selected by the student. Other requirements include delivering a department colloquium , and completion of the Ph.D. dissertation.

Typical Progress

Most of our students take about five years to complete the full graduate program. Of course, students’ backgrounds and work patterns are diverse; some take less time and others take more.

Since the normal course load for graduate students is three courses per quarter, it is usually possible for students to complete all or most of the M.A. course requirements within the first year of the program. Students who enter the program with deficiencies in certain areas may need to take longer to satisfy the M.A. course requirements, since they may have to enroll in certain upper-division undergraduate courses during their first year.

All students must have completed the M.A. paper and all other M.A. requirements by the end of the spring quarter of the second year. Third-year students are encouraged to explore the field, take advanced seminars, prepare original research for publication or presentation at conferences, etc.

By the end of the third year, students should have a good idea of the area they plan to concentrate on for their dissertation, and they should have a Ph.D. committee assembled before the end of the spring quarter. Fourth years students should be advanced to candidacy before the end of the fall quarter; this entails the completion of all Ph.D. requirements other than the dissertation, including defense of a prospectus of their dissertation in an oral exam conducted by their committee.

The last two quarters of the fourth year, as well as the entire fifth year, is devoted to the completion of the dissertation and job-market activities.

More details about the graduate sequence can be found here .

Click on the links below for descriptions of department research facilities.

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• Psycholinguistics Lab

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).

Other resources

The strong research culture of the UCLA Linguistics Department is supported in many tangible ways by the department and by the university:

• Free statistics consulting on campus
• Free poster printer
• Experimental subject pool
• Phonetics Lab staff engineer
• Weekly research group seminar meetings
• Access to undergraduate RAs
• Access to laboratory facilities
• Staff assistance with IRB applications

and specifically for grad students:

• Funding for subjects/consultants
• Ladefoged Scholarship (research support for grad students)
• Funding for conference travel
• Experimental methods courses offered in both phonetics and psycholinguistics
• A Professional Development course (Ling. 444)

In addition, the Linguistics Department maintains a  department library , and provides office space to its graduate students.

The library system at UCLA, with over nine million volumes and extensive online offerings, is ranked in the top ten university libraries in the United States, and has strong collections in linguistics and language description.

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For information about applying to our graduate program, please visit our Graduate Admissions Information page.

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Our campus offers more than 130 graduate and professional programs, ranging from an extensive selection of business and medical programs to degrees in 40 different languages. On average, UCLA admits 14,000 graduate students of the 55,000 who apply each year. At UCLA, you’ll be among the best and brightest in the world.

Our programs combine the learnings of one field with the components of another, to create a hybrid of deep specialized knowledge. The notion that knowledge is produced through multidisciplinary approaches is paramount at UCLA. We offer faculty and graduate students the opportunity to collaborate on research projects and study groups that transcend departments and programs.

These collaborations go beyond the campus. UCLA enjoys strong connections to other major universities as well as public and private institutes and firms thanks to its location within Los Angeles. Our graduate students engage with these communities both academically and culturally as a part of the UCLA graduate experience. The students who thrive in the environment are creative, determined and unrelenting in their search for new ways to answer questions.

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Ph.D. Program

Advising The vice chair for graduate studies is the chief graduate adviser and heads a committee of faculty advisers who may serve as academic advisers. The research interests of the members of this committee span most of the major areas of statistics. During their first quarter in the program students are required to meet with an academic adviser who assists them in planning a reasonable course of study. In addition, the academic adviser is responsible for monitoring the student’s degree progress and approving the study list each quarter. Students are encouraged to begin thinking about their research interests as early as possible. After the student identifies a dissertation topic, the chair of the dissertation committee becomes the student’s academic adviser.

Continuing students should meet with either the vice chair for graduate studies or their academic adviser at least once each quarter and a record of this interview is placed in the student’s academic file. Each fall a committee consisting of all regular departmental faculty meet to evaluate the progress of all enrolled doctoral students. This committee decides if students are making satisfactory progress, and if not offers specific recommendations to correct the situation. For students who have begun dissertation work, the determination of satisfactory progress is typically delegated to the academic adviser. Students who are found to be consistently performing unsatisfactorily may be recommended for termination by a vote of this committee. Doctoral students normally are considered to be making satisfactory progress if they take the written qualifying examination in the summer following their first year of study and the University Oral Qualifying Examination by the end of their second year.

Major Fields or Sub-disciplines The strengths of current and prospective faculty dictate the specific fields of emphasis in the department: applied multivariate analysis; bioinformatics ( Center for Statistical Research in Computational Biology ); computational and computer-intensive statistics; computer vision; cognition; artificial intelligence; machine learning ( Center for Vision, Cognition, Learning, and Autonomy ); social statistics ( Center for Social Statistics ); experimental design and environmental statistics.

Foreign Language Requirement None.

Course Requirements Students are required to pass, with a grade of B- or better, 54 units of approved graduate course work (200 series) and to maintain an overall grade-point average of 3.0 or better. At least 40 of these units must be in courses from this department; the remaining units may be from courses in related departments. Students are strongly encouraged to take Statistics 200A-200B-200C, 201A-201B-201C, and 202A-202B-202C. All doctoral students are required to take Statistics 290 for at least six quarters, and strongly encouraged to take Stats 290 during each quarter of enrollment. In addition, all doctoral students can take Statistics 296 and/or 596, or 599 as needed. Please note that up to two units of Statistics 285 and eight units of Statistics 596 can be counted toward the 40 units from our department. Stats 290, 296, and 599 are not counted.

Students with gaps in their previous training are allowed to take, with the approval of their academic adviser, undergraduate courses offered by the department. However, Statistics 100A-100B-100C, 101A-101B-101C and 102A-102B-102C may not be applied toward course requirements for a graduate degree in the department. Students who need a basic refresher course are encouraged to take Statistics 100A-100B-100C.

Teaching Experience Students are required to complete at least one quarter of service as a teaching assistant for a minimum of 25% time appointment. Students who serve as teaching assistants in the department must have taken or be currently enrolled in Statistics 495A-495B-495C. International students for whom English is a second language must pass either the Test of Spoken English (TSE) or the UCLA Test of Oral Proficiency (TOP) in English before they may serve as teaching assistants.

Written and Oral Qualifying Examinations Academic Senate regulations require all doctoral students to complete and pass university written and oral qualifying examinations prior to doctoral advancement to candidacy. Also, under Senate regulations, the University Oral Qualifying Examination is open only to the student and appointed members of the doctoral committee. In addition to university requirements, some graduate programs have other pre-candidacy examination requirements. What follows in this section is how students are required to fulfill all of these requirements for this doctoral program.

All committee nominations and reconstitutions adhere to the Minimum Standards for Doctoral Committee Constitution.

The written qualifying examination consists of a high-quality paper, solely authorized by the student. This paper can be a research paper containing an original contribution, or a focused critical survey paper. The paper should demonstrate that the student understands and can integrate and communicate ideas clearly and concisely. The paper should be approximately 10 pages, single-spaced, and the style should be suitable for submission to a first-rate journal or technical conference. Any contributions that are not the student’s, including those of the student’s adviser, must be explicitly acknowledged in detail.

After passing the written qualifying examination, students select a doctoral committee that administers the University Oral Qualifying Examination, required for advancement to candidacy. Students are encouraged to begin thinking about their research interests as early as possible and to seek out faculty members who might serve on their doctoral committee. Students making satisfactory progress are expected to take the written qualifying examination in the summer following their first year of study and the University Oral Qualifying Examination by the end of their second year.

Advancement to Candidacy Students are advanced to candidacy and awarded the Candidate in Philosophy (C.Phil.) degree upon successful completion of the written and oral qualifying examinations.

Doctoral Dissertation Every doctoral degree program requires the completion of an approved dissertation that demonstrates the student’s ability to perform original, independent research and constitutes a distinct contribution to knowledge in the principal field of study.

Final Oral Examination (Defense of the Dissertation) Required for all students in the program. Please see the Advice on Taking the Oral Exam for more information.

Time-to-Degree Students are expected to advance to candidacy for the Ph.D. degree within six quarters of full-time work. Completion of all degree requirements (including the dissertation) normally takes 15 quarters. The maximum time to degree is 24 quarters.

Termination of Graduate Study and Appeal of Termination

University Policy

A student who fails to meet the above requirements may be recommended for termination of graduate study. A graduate student may be disqualified from continuing in the graduate program for a variety of reasons. The most common is failure to maintain the minimum cumulative grade point average (3.00) required by the Academic Senate to remain in good standing (some programs require a higher grade point average). Other examples include failure of examinations, lack of timely progress toward the degree and poor performance in core courses. Probationary students (those with cumulative grade point averages below 3.00) are subject to immediate dismissal upon the recommendation of their department. University guidelines governing termination of graduate students, including the appeal procedure, are outlined in Standards and Procedures for Graduate Study at UCLA.

Special Departmental or Program Policy for the Ph.D. Program

A student who does not advance to doctoral candidacy within six quarters of full-time study is subject to a recommendation for termination. The graduate vice chair informs a student of such a recommendation and the student is asked to submit a written appeal and to solicit letters of support from members of the faculty. The appeal is considered by the Graduate Studies Committee, which makes the final departmental decision.

For Students Who Entered Before Fall 2022 Please click this link . Then navigate to “Program Requirements” in the tab that opens and select the academic year when you matriculated.

Timeline to Filing Your Dissertation

• By Fall of your 2nd year, choose your Faculty Adviser and discuss with your faculty adviser who will be on your committee.
• Complete and submit the Nomination of Doctoral Committee Form at least one month before you take your orals.
• Contact Student Affairs to schedule a time and date to take your orals. Confirm the time and date with your committee.
• Your Adviser will let you know when you are ready to take your final orals and submit your dissertation online. When that time comes, arrange time, date and location with the student affairs office.
• If you still need more time and after you’ve advanced choose to do a Filing Fee instead please read this website carefully: https://grad.ucla.edu/academics/graduate-study/filing-fee-application/
• You must also complete the Filing Fee application found here: https://grad.ucla.edu/gasaa/etd/filingfee.pdf
• Important dates and workshops are found here: https://grad.ucla.edu/academics/calendar/thesis-dissertation-filing-deadlines-and-workshops/
• Should you choose the Filing Fee for a specific quarter, you must be registered and enrolled the quarter before AND you must submit a complete first draft of your dissertation to all committee members at the time you submit your filing fee application (in order to apply the filing fee, students must be registered and enrolled in at least 2 units the quarter before).

Faculty Research Interest See the faculty directory listing for current members and their interests at http://directory.stat.ucla.edu/ .

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The Philosophy department at UCLA admits graduate students for the PhD program only, entering in Fall Quarter. Students who do not have an MA in Philosophy may earn one on the way to the PhD. The Department restricts admission to students whose records and credentials give evidence of capacity and resolve to do superior work in philosophy at the graduate level. A substantial background in philosophy is desirable, though we recognize that many students acquire their interest in graduate study in philosophy without having completed the equivalent of an undergraduate major in the field; exceptionally promising students with such a background may be admitted, subject to the condition of strengthening their preparation in the deficient area as soon as possible. Applications from women and members of minority groups are strongly encouraged.

For applicants interested in the joint JD/PhD program, see the JD/PhD page for further instructions. Find information on department financial support practices here . For a list of frequently asked questions  click here .

The Fall 2024 admissions deadline is January 4, 2024 . We accept applications for the Fall term only.

Steps for Applying

Step 1 : Submit an online application and fee to the Graduate Division. (Application fees may be waived in some cases. Please see https://grad.ucla.edu/admissions/faqs/ or please contact the department’s admission director)

Upload the following materials:

• A 1-2 page statement of purpose. A separate personal history statement is not required.
• A sample of written work, in English. Please remove your name and any other identifying information from the writing sample.
• Name and contact information for three recommenders.
• If you are applying for the Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship , in addition to submitting the fellowship application, please also be sure to upload a CV in the “Resume/CV” section of the application.
• Transcripts: Unofficial transcripts of all undergraduate and graduate work must be uploaded into the Graduate Division online application system. (To read more about the parameters that define an acceptable unofficial transcript for the purposes of application review,  click here ). Admitted students will be required to provide official, sealed transcripts directly to the Philosophy department (see address below) at a later date. NOTE: Transcripts from community colleges and short-term study abroad programs are not necessary, as the coursework will be reflected on your undergraduate transcript.

Step 2 : Send official GRE scores to UCLA. The advanced test in philosophy is not required. The GRE should be taken no later than the second week in December in order to meet the application deadline. We will not accept GRE scores older than 5 years.

Students who wish to apply for our graduate program for Fall 2024 admission are not required to take the GRE or submit a GRE score report as part of their application package. GRE scores will not be considered in the admissions process if submitted.

Step 3 : If English is not your native language, send TOEFL or IELTS scores to UCLA. Exceptions: (1) Students who have completed a bachelor’s degree or higher at a university where English is the language of instruction and the primary language of daily life, or (2) students who have completed at least two years of full-time study at such institution, do not need to submit TOEFL or IELTS scores. We require a minimum TOEFL score of 560 on the paper and pencil test or 87 on the internet-based test, or a minimum IELTS Overall Band Score of 7.0 .

Admitted applicants who have not met  UCLA’s English language requirement must, upon arrival at UCLA, take the English as a Second Language Placement Examination (ESLPE), an English diagnostic test. Depending on the results of the ESLPE, you may be required to complete English as a Second Language courses beginning in your first term at UCLA. If English courses are required, you should anticipate spending a longer period of time at the University.

To be eligible for a teaching assistantship upon admission to UCLA, applicants whose first language is not English must take the Test of Oral Proficiency (TOP) and pass it with a score of 7.1. TOP is an examination designed for screening the spoken English skills of international students before their appointment as teaching assistants. Additional information for foreign applicants can be found  here .

Step 4 : We strongly encourage you to apply for extramural funding. The Graduate Division has a website featuring links to fellowship databases and other useful information.

The mailing address for transcripts is:

UCLA Department of Philosophy ATTN: Graduate Advisor 321 Dodd Hall 405 Hilgard Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90095

If your institution supports electronic transmission of transcripts, these should be sent directly to [email protected] .

Offers of admission to international students cannot be finalized until official transcripts have been received. Non-international students must submit official transcripts before the start of Fall term. Unsealed transcripts handled by a student are no longer considered official.

For students who attended universities outside of the United States, see here for transcript requirements.

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UCLA courses that satisfy the English requirement for health professions schools:

Introduction.

The following courses will each satisfy part of the “one-year English requirement” for most professional schools in the health sciences. In addition, many of these courses will also satisfy the College of Letters & Science Writing II requirement, or L&S General Education requirements.

*Note that the L&S General Education requirements are new for students that enter Fall 02 and after. Anyone that has entered BEFORE Fall 02 should follow the old GE structure. In addition, some courses will only satisfy the new GE structure, and not the old one. Check with your college advising unit listed below for more details.*

The general rule is that courses offered through the English department and any course satisfying the Writing II requirement (indicated by a “W” after the course number) will satisfy part of the English requirement for professional schools in the health sciences.

*Please check with individual schools for final confirmation of these selections.*

To fulfill one year of English, we recommend that you take one literature course; one composition/expository writing course (Writing Programs and “W” courses included in this category); and one additional course in either literature or composition. The “W” provides a “writing intensive” notation on your official transcript.  Please feel free to take more!  Additional courses in composition and literature can both enhance your application, and help your performance on exams such as the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT), Dental Admissions Test (DAT), Optometry Admissions Test (OAT), etc.

Course List

The following grid lists recommended courses in alphabetical order by department. These courses are not necessarily offered each quarter, or each academic year. Check the Schedule of Classes each quarter for availability.  Courses that have more than one category checked DO NOT automatically satisfy more than one requirement. Check with your College advising office for details:

• AAP students go to 1209 Campbell Hall;
• College Honors students go to A-311 Murphy Hall;
• Student Athletes go to the Morgan Center; and
• all other College of Letters & Science students go to A-316 Murphy Hall to verify GE, Writing I and II requirements.
• Engineering students go to 6426 Boelter Hall;
• Arts & Architecture students go to 194 Kinross Building South; and
• Theater, Film & Television students go to 103 East Melnitz

Consult the catalog for course descriptions.

# Some of these courses will not fulfill the new L&S General Education requirement after Fall 02.  Check with your college advising unit listed above for more details.

**English 4W and 4HW are pre-requisites for the English major and minor. Due to the high demand for this class, please choose an alternative whenever possible.

^Please check with individual schools about their acceptance of science-based writing courses.

• Collection edited by Yogita Goyal broadens research on African American literature

Marta Wallien | April 10, 2024

Although contemporary African American writing has evolved in remarkable fashion within the last five decades, scholarship on the subject remains sparse. A new essay collection edited by UCLA professor Yogita Goyal, “ The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature , ” aims to widen its discourse.

“I’ve always been struck by how difficult it is — both for the classroom and for our own research — to find extensive scholarship on the subject. We tend to favor research on historically more distant eras,” said Goyal, a professor of English and African American studies. “I wanted to put together a resource for those of us who work in contemporary African American literature, which I define as post-1975 for this volume, as the Black Arts Movement was waning, and new forms of writing were coming into view.”

Goyal’s previous essay collection for Cambridge University Press, “ The Cambridge Companion to Transnational American Literature ,” centered on the global shift American literary studies took within the last century. Goyal explained that the 17 essays in this new book highlight the shift taking place within Black studies and the need for further research.

“My hope is that readers appreciate the enormous vitality of the field. There has been another cultural renaissance of sorts in the last few decades in Black studies and all the essays in the volume are alive to the vibrancy of the debates about racial justice, the afterlife of slavery, literary experimentation and play, and attention to new audiences and critical methods.”

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The Department of Mathematics & Statistics at CSULB offers four Master of Science programs .

Teaching & Graduate Assistantships provide students with funding and with college teaching experience.

Graduates have found employment in both technical and academic workplaces. Many have obtained tenure-track community college professorships. Others have gone on to PhD programs.

MS in Mathematics, General Option

Study and explore concepts in areas including analysis, algebra, topology, and geometry, as well as the   deep connections between and among these subjects.

MS in Mathematics, Option in Applied Mathematics

Study applied math methods with an emphasis on computational skills.

MS in Mathematics, Option in Mathematics Education for Secondary School Teachers

A flexible program that includes coursework in mathematics and in mathematics education research & theory.

MS in Applied Statistics

Using conceptual foundations and statistical software packages ( SAS , R , and Python ), students are trained to analyze real world data appropriately and communicate their findings effectively. The tools learnt here will open the door for careers in data science and analytics, or prepare you for a PhD in a variety of related fields.

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California NanoSystems Institute > News > Member News > March 15, 2024 | Speaking Without Vocal Cords, Thanks To a New AI-Assisted Wearable Device

Speaking without vocal cords, thanks to a new AI-assisted wearable device

The adhesive neck patch is the latest advance by UCLA bioengineers in speech technology for people with disabilities

By Christine Wei-li Lee

Key takeaways

• Bioengineers at UCLA have invented a thin, flexible device that adheres to the neck and translates the muscle movements of the larynx into audible speech.
• The device is trained through machine learning to recognize which muscle movements correspond to which words.
• The self-powered technology could serve as a non-invasive tool for people who have lost the ability to speak due to vocal cord problems.

This article was originally published by UCLA Newsroom

People with voice disorders, including those with pathological vocal cord conditions or who are recovering from laryngeal cancer surgeries, can often find it difficult or impossible to speak. That may soon change.

A team of UCLA engineers has invented a soft, thin, stretchy device measuring just over 1 square inch that can be attached to the skin outside the throat to help people with dysfunctional vocal cords regain their voice function. Their advance is  detailed this week  in the journal Nature Communications.

The new bioelectric system, developed by  Jun Chen,  an assistant professor of bioengineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, and his colleagues, is able to detect movement in a person’s larynx muscles and translate those signals into audible speech with the assistance of machine-learning technology — with nearly 95% accuracy.

The breakthrough is the latest in Chen’s efforts to help those with disabilities. His team previously developed a  wearable glove  capable of translating American Sign Language into English speech in real time to help users of ASL communicate with those who don’t know how to sign.

The tiny new patch-like device is made up of two components. One, a self-powered sensing component, detects and converts signals generated by muscle movements into high-fidelity, analyzable electrical signals; these electrical signals are then translated into speech signals using a machine-learning algorithm. The other, an actuation component, turns those speech signals into the desired voice expression.  

The two components each contain two layers: a layer of biocompatible silicone compound polydimethylsiloxane, or PDMS, with elastic properties, and a magnetic induction layer made of copper induction coils. Sandwiched between the two components is a fifth layer containing PDMS mixed with micromagnets, which generates a magnetic field.

Utilizing a soft  magnetoelastic sensing mechanism  developed by Chen’s team in 2021, the device is capable of detecting changes in the magnetic field when it is altered as a result of mechanical forces — in this case, the movement of laryngeal muscles. The embedded serpentine induction coils in the magnetoelastic layers help generate high-fidelity electrical signals for sensing purposes.

Measuring 1.2 inches on each side, the device weighs about 7 grams and is just 0.06 inch thick. With double-sided biocompatible tape, it can easily adhere to an individual’s throat near the location of the vocal cords and can be reused by reapplying tape as needed.

Voice disorders are prevalent across all ages and demographic groups; research has shown that nearly 30% of people will experience at least one such disorder in their lifetime. Yet with therapeutic approaches, such as surgical interventions and voice therapy, voice recovery can stretch from three months to a year, with some invasive techniques requiring a significant period of mandatory postoperative voice rest.

“Existing solutions such as handheld electro-larynx devices and tracheoesophageal- puncture procedures can be inconvenient, invasive or uncomfortable,” said Chen who leads the  Wearable Bioelectronics Research Group  at UCLA, and has been named one the  world’s most highly cited researchers  five years in a row. “This new device presents a wearable, non-invasive option capable of assisting patients in communicating during the period before treatment and during the post-treatment recovery period for voice disorders.”

How machine learning enables the wearable tech

In their experiments, the researchers tested the wearable technology on eight healthy adults. They collected data on laryngeal muscle movement and used a machine-learning algorithm to correlate the resulting signals to certain words. They then selected a corresponding output voice signal through the device’s actuation component.

The research team demonstrated the system’s accuracy by having the participants pronounce five sentences — both aloud and voicelessly — including “Hi, Rachel, how are you doing today?” and “I love you!”

The overall prediction accuracy of the model was 94.68%, with the participants’ voice signal amplified by the actuation component, demonstrating that the sensing mechanism recognized their laryngeal movement signal and matched the corresponding sentence the participants wished to say.

Going forward, the research team plans to continue enlarging the vocabulary of the device through machine learning and to test it in people with speech disorders.

Other authors of the paper are UCLA Samueli graduate students Ziyuan Che, Chrystal Duan, Xiao Wan, Jing Xu and Tianqi Zheng — all members of Chen’s lab.

UCLA Foreign Engagement Obligations and Requirements

Dear Colleagues:

We are writing to follow up on previous communications from UCLA leaders about issues related to international research and collaborations. UCLA remains committed to establishing and maintaining scholarly exchanges, collaborative research and affiliations with foreign institutions. We cherish the open research environment that is part of what makes us a world-class academic institution. At the same time, we recognize that federal agencies and Congress remain concerned about undue foreign influence and the adequacy of research security in the United States university research environment. As good stewards of the research funding support we receive, we need to be responsive to these concerns.

There have been new requirements over the past few years that impact individual researchers (see below) and others that compel changes at the institutional level. Some federal research sponsors like the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Science Foundation and the Department of Defense have enhanced their reporting requirements for individual investigators. National Security Presidential Memorandum 33 ( NSPM-33 ), issued in January 2021, mandates the establishment of research security programs at institutions like UCLA that receive federal research. In addition, UC Office of the President established new requirements and procedures for approving international affiliations and agreements involving emerging technology and countries of concern.

The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Creative Activities has taken the lead in designing a campus research security program that will support the UCLA research community and foster foreign collaborators, while also protecting the UCLA open research environment. UCLA’s participation in organizations like the Association of American Universities, the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities and the Council on Government Relations ensures that, together with other universities, our feedback and concerns about the impact of proposed new regulations on our researchers and institution are communicated to the federal government.

Additionally, UCLA Government Relations represents and advocates on behalf of the campus in engaging with members of Congress and their staffs, the White House and the Executive Branch agencies to promote our mission.

We know that these are complex issues and we will provide additional updates about this evolving landscape. The information outlined below is intended to provide an overview of key disclosure obligations and other requirements related to foreign engagement. Please understand that the information is not exhaustive and that this is an area of rapid change.

Proposals and Awards for Research Support

All UCLA employees who receive part of their salary through the University, or whose activities use any campus resources or facilities, must submit proposals for extramural support through the authorized University contracts and grants office with resulting awards made to “The Regents of the University of California.” Exceptions may be granted in unusual circumstances on a case-by-case basis. See UCLA Policy 909 .

PIs and senior/key personnel must disclose all current and pending (other) support to federal sponsors. This includes all resources made available in support of the individual’s research efforts, including foreign and domestic resources, as well as resources being made available outside of UCLA, either through another entity or directly to the individual. It also includes in-kind contributions that require a time commitment and directly support the individual’s research and development efforts (e.g., the provision of office or laboratory space, equipment, supplies, employees/students or travel).

• Senior/key personnel are defined as individuals who (a) contribute in a substantive, meaningful way to the scientific development or execution of a research and development project, proposed to be carried out with a research and development award from a Federal research agency; and (b) are designated as a covered individual by the Federal research agency concerned.

Current and Pending (Other) Support Disclosures (PDF) must be updated at the request of the Federal research funding agency prior to the award of support and at any subsequent time the agency determines appropriate during the term of the award.

Additionally, all research proposals submitted to federal agencies must include a current Biosketch (PDF) for the PI and all other senior/key personnel. All academic, professional or institutional appointments and positions should be listed. This includes any academic, professional or institutional positions (with or without compensation) and whether full-time, part-time or voluntary (including adjunct, visiting or honorary). Consistent with NSPM-33, individuals are required to disclose contracts associated with participation in programs sponsored by foreign governments, instrumentalities or entities, including foreign government-sponsored talent recruitment programs (PDF) .

Conflict of Commitment

• Eligible faculty members should request prior approval for, and report, outside professional activities through the UC Outside Activity Tracking System ( OATS ). See Annual Conflict of Commitment Reporting APM 671 for members of Health Science Compensation Plans and APM 025 for all other faculty.
• Teaching, research or administration of a grant at another educational institution, trust, organization, government agency, foundation or other entity outside of the University
• Employment outside of the University
• Assuming a founding or a co-founding role of a company
• Assuming an executive or managerial position outside of the University
• Current or pending acceptance of an honorary, visiting, adjunct or other institutional appointment (compensated or uncompensated) at an outside institution of higher education, research institute or medical center ( effective July 1, 2024 )
• Current or pending participation in, or application to, talent recruitment programs sponsored by a non-U.S. government agency ( effective July 1, 2024 )
• Providing outside consulting services or referrals or engaging in professional practice as an individual or through a single member professional corporation or sole proprietorship
• Serving on a board of directors outside of the University
• Providing or presenting a workshop for industry

See Academic Affairs and Personnel for policies, forms and guidance.

Disclosure of Financial Interests

• Principal Investigators and others who share responsibility for the design, conduct and reporting of federal Public Health Service-supported research (including NIH) and Department of Energy (DOE) must disclose all personal financial interests related to the breadth of their institutional responsibilities, through the electronic Disclosure Gateway (eDGE) system . Required disclosures include income and travel reimbursement from foreign academic institutions.
• Principal Investigators must disclose financial interests in the sponsor of any research contract or grant from a for-profit, non-profit or a Material Transfer Agreement. They must also disclose financial interest in entities that provide support for research through gifts. They must also disclose financial interests in the entity providing the support in accordance with UCLA Procedure 925.1 and UCLA Procedure 925.2 .
• Principal Investigators and others who share responsibility for designing, conducting and reporting research supported by all other federal agencies (except PHS and DOE) must disclose personal financial interests in accordance with UCLA Procedure 925.3 .

Other Matters

• University policy prohibits acceptance of publication restrictions in research, except in extraordinary circumstances. Only University officials authorized by the Regents to accept contracts and grants may agree to such restrictions. Researchers should never enter into informal or unofficial agreements to restrict publication or sharing of research results.
• All UCLA employees must comply with U.S. export control regulations and sanctions in the conduct of University business, including conducting research; traveling internationally and attending conferences; participating in international collaborations; using proprietary information; working with international staff and students; hosting international visitors; shipping materials internationally; and engaging in any international transactions.
• All academic appointees, staff and trainees should register all travel for University purposes and follow the guidelines for travel to high-risk countries set by the U.S. Department of State or UC Policy. Familiarity with current policies and IT advisories can help ensure that sensitive data are protected. See the Insurance & Risk Management’s Travel Insurance guidelines .
• All employees are expected to promptly disclose all intellectual property, any improvements to existing intellectual property and any potentially patentable inventions (whether or not UC resources are utilized) to the UCLA Technology Development Group via the Invention Disclosure portal .
• Faculty and staff must follow appropriate procedures when inviting visitors to laboratories and offices that house sensitive and proprietary data and equipment to ensure that data and systems are properly used and protected. See Visiting Graduate Researchers and Appendix 39: Visiting Scholars .
• Any academic Memorandums of Understanding (MOU), Collaboration Agreements, Affiliation Agreements and Student Exchange Agreements involving a foreign organization should be forwarded to the UCLA Office of International Studies and Global Engagement ( International Office ) for review. See UCLA Policy 980 .
• Emerging technologies have been defined as listed by the Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security in 83 FR 58201, including but not limited to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning, Quantum Information/Sensing, Semiconductor and Microelectronics, Biotechnology and other areas that can be identified by the Export Control office based on evolving federal government classification of emerging technology important to national security. Countries of concern include Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, the People’s Republic of China (including Hong Kong and Macau), the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea), the Russian Federation and the Islamic Republic of Iran.
• Additional information is available on the Foreign Engagement and Export Control websites and at OCGA Other Support .

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Roger M. Wakimoto Vice Chancellor for Research & Creative Activities