LING 210A

Field Methods I

Linguistics · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

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Analysis of a language unknown to members of class from data elicited from a native speaker of the language. Term papers to be relatively full descriptive sketches of the language. May be repeated for credit with topic change.

S/U or letter grading.

When it runs

Winter 2026
Winter 2027

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.

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Requisites

Official UCLA wording
Preparation: grade of B or better in course 103 or in examination on practical phonetics. Requisites: courses 200A, 200B.

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Requires

Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

LING 210A

LING 200APhonological Theory I
LING 200BSyntactic Theory I

2 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 2 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.

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