LING 161Language Documentation
Linguistics · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Issues in documenting languages, including collection of primary data using linguistic field methods, organizing data into documents (annotated texts, dictionaries, multimedia presentations, technical articles), audiences for language documents (speakers of target languages, linguists, scholars outside linguistics, general public), presentation and storage of documents (paper publication, online publication, electronic and physical archives), documenting endangered languages, and organizations and initiatives for documenting endangered languages. Presentations focus on case studies. Student projects in assembling primary data and creating annotated texts with commentary.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 20 (enforced), and 105 or 119A or 120A.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.