Applicable only to students admitted during the 2015-2016 academic year.

Environmental Health Sciences

School of Public Health

Graduate Degrees

The Department of Environmental Health Sciences offers the Master of Science (M.S.) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degrees in Environmental Health Sciences.

Admissions Requirements

Master’s Degree

Advising

A faculty academic adviser is appointed for each new master’s student by the department chair. The student and adviser together agree upon a study list for each academic quarter and any subsequent alterations must be approved by the student’s adviser. Students are expected to meet with their adviser each quarter.

The faculty adviser is responsible for monitoring the student’s academic progress. Progress is evaluated on an ongoing basis. At the end of each quarter, the Associate Dean of Student Affairs reviews academic listings of students and notifies them and the advisers when the cumulative grade-point average is below 3.0. Advisers review each case with their advisees and make recommendations to the Associate Dean of Student Affairs for continuance or dismissal. Students who wish to change advisers must file a petition which must be approved by the old adviser, the new adviser, the department chair, and the Associate Dean for Student Affairs.

Areas of Study

Students may choose to focus on Industrial Hygiene; the M.S. program in Industrial Hygiene is fully accredited by the Applied Science Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology http://www.abet.org (ABET-ASAC).

Foreign Language Requirement

None.

Course Requirements

Students must complete at least one year of graduate residence at the University of California and a minimum of 10 full courses, at least five of which must be graduate courses in the 200 or 500 series. Only one 596 course (four units) and one 598 course (four units) may be applied toward the total course requirement; only four units of either course may be applied toward the minimum graduate course requirement. Environmental Health Sciences 597 may not be applied toward the degree requirements.

Mandatory core courses include Biostatistics 100A, 100B, Epidemiology 100, Environmental Health Sciences C200A-C200B, 201, C240, 411 (taken once a year for two years), and either 596 (for comprehensive examination/report plan) or 598 (for thesis plan). Students must take one advanced laboratory course (3 or more units) on a topic in or related to environmental health sciences, for example Environmental Health Sciences 207, 410B, M166L, 252F, Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics 100L, or Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology 104AL. In addition, at least 18 units of elective courses are required and should be selected in consultation with the graduate adviser. MS students may not count 296, 596, 597, 598, or 599 courses towards the elective requirement. A departmental required course may be waived if the student either has taken a similar university-level course elsewhere and/or passes a waiver examination.

Only courses in which a grade of C- or better is received may be applied toward the requirements for a master’s degree. Students must maintain an average of no less than 3.0 (B) in all courses required or elected during graduate residence at the University of California.

In addition to the above course requirements, students must complete a thesis (Plan I) or a report and a comprehensive examination (Plan II).

Teaching Experience

Not required.

Field Experience

Not required.

Thesis Plan (Plan I)

Every master’s degree thesis plan requires the completion of an approved thesis that demonstrates the student’s ability to perform original, independent research.

If the student selects the thesis option (Plan I), a thesis committee of three faculty members is established. The committee approves the thesis prospectus before the student files for advancement to candidacy. An externally peer-reviewed publication (e.g. journal article or book chapter) completed while a student, may be submitted as the thesis, with appropriate format modification.

Comprehensive Examination and Report Plan (Plan II)

If the student selects the comprehensive examination & report option (Plan II), the candidate must pass a comprehensive examination on the major area of study. This examination is prepared by a committee of at least three faculty members.  If the examination is failed, the student may be reexamined once. In addition, the student must complete a research activity (Environmental Health Sciences 596) of at least four units and prepare an in-depth written report on this activity.  For the report, the student also has the option of submitting an externally peer-reviewed publication (e.g. journal article, book chapter) that was completed while a student. Either report option must be approved by the adviser and at least one other faculty member.

Time-to-Degree

Normative time-to-degree from initial enrollment to graduation is six quarters.

DEGREE	NORMATIVE TIME TO ATC (Quarters)	NORMATIVE TTD	MAXIMUM TTD
MS	6	6	15

Doctoral Degree

Advising

An academic adviser is assigned to each new student by the head of the department. Student and adviser together agree upon a study list for each academic quarter within the parameters set forth below; any subsequent alterations must be approved both by the adviser and the department chair. During the first year students must set up a two-member guidance committee that includes the academic adviser. One of these members may be from outside the department. Students also must file Doctoral Form 1.

Major Fields or Subdisciplines

Students may choose to concentrate on any field of environmental health sciences. Such areas of academic focus may include: air quality; environmental biology; environmental chemistry; environmental health practice and policy; industrial hygiene; toxicology; or water quality. Interdisciplinary research is also recommended.

Foreign Language Requirement

None.

Course Requirements

Students select a course of study upon consultation with their guidance committee. The following courses are required: either Environmental Health Sciences 100 or C200A-C200B; Environmental Health Sciences 411 (required once a year for the first two years); Environmental Health Sciences M414 (Fall Quarter of the second year); one full course (four units or more) at the 100 or 200 level in epidemiology; and the appropriate Environmental Health Sciences 296 course for each quarter in residence. Also, proficiency in biostatistics/statistics is required. Each specific, required, letter-graded course may be waived if the student successfully completed an equivalent course with a grade of B or better.

For students who do not have a degree in the field of public health, the following additional courses are recommended: two full courses in biostatistics/statistics.

Teaching Experience

Teaching experience is recommended but not required for the doctoral degree.

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.

Before advancement to candidacy, students must complete the courses required for the doctoral degree (see Course Requirements). Students must also pass a written examination in the area of specialization and the University Oral Qualifying Examination. Normally, no more than one reexamination is allowed. A doctoral committee, consisting of at least four faculty members who hold professorial appointments at UCLA, is nominated when the student is ready to take the University Oral Qualifying Examination. Students should review the current regulations governing doctoral committee membership in Standards and Procedures for Graduate Study at UCLA.

After passing the University Oral Qualifying Examination, the student may be advanced to candidacy and commence work on a dissertation in the principal field of study. The doctoral committee supervises the student’s progress toward completion of the dissertation.

Advancement to Candidacy

Students are advanced to candidacy 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.

Time-to-Degree

Normative time from initial enrollment to advancement to candidacy is six to nine quarters (two to three calendar years), and from advancement to candidacy to filing of dissertation is six to nine quarters (two to three calendar years).

DEGREE	NORMATIVE TIME TO ATC (Quarters)	NORMATIVE TTD	MAXIMUM TTD
PhD	9	18	24

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

Master’s

In addition to the standard reasons outlined above, a student may be recommended for termination for failure to complete the required course work within seven quarters of matriculation.

Doctoral

In addition to the standard reasons outlined above, a student may be recommended for termination for: failure to maintain a 3.00 grade point average for two consecutive quarters following matriculation into the doctoral program; a second failure in the written qualifying examination; a second failure of either oral examination; or exceeding enrollment time limits.

A student may appeal a recommendation for termination first to the departmental chair, then to the Associate Dean of Student Affairs, then to the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and finally to the Dean of the school.

Applicable only to students admitted during the 2015-2016 academic year.

Spanish and Portuguese

College of Letters and Science

Graduate Degrees

The Department of Spanish and Portuguese offers the Master of Arts (M.A.) degree in Spanish, the Master of Arts (M.A.) degree in Portuguese, and the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree in Hispanic Languages and Literatures.

Hispanic Languages and Literatures

Admissions Requirements

Doctoral Degree

Advising

During the first year of doctoral study students choose an adviser, who becomes chair of the doctoral committee and director of the dissertation. Based on the selection of the dissertation topic or area, and in consultation with the adviser, students choose two other committee members from among the department faculty, whose interests and fields of expertise support research in the proposed area of the dissertation. These three department faculty members constitute the departmental advisory committee. It is the student’s responsibility to meet with the advisory committee as early as possible during the first year, to determine a program of coursework and directed research that leads to the doctoral qualifying examinations. This meeting must take place by the end of Spring Quarter of the first year. During the second year students choose an additional faculty member, from a different department, who becomes the fourth member of the doctoral committee responsible for the examinations and the dissertation. This committee is nominated by the department and appointed by the Graduate Division. Until the departmental advisory committee is formed, students are advised by the Director of Graduate Studies.

Major Fields or Subdisciplines

Dissertation topics may be drawn from any field in Spanish and Portuguese language, literature, and culture. Possible fields include: Spanish linguistics; Portuguese linguistics; diachronic Hispanic linguistics and philology; medieval Spanish literature; Renaissance and Golden Age Spanish literature; 18th-and 19th-century Spanish literature; 20th-century Spanish literature; colonial Spanish American literature; 19th-century Spanish American literature; 20th-century Spanish American literature; Chicano literature; early Portuguese literature; modern Portuguese literature; early Brazilian literature; modern Brazilian literature; Spanish and Luso-Brazilian folklore.

Foreign Language Requirement

In addition to proficiency in Spanish and Portuguese, students must have a reading knowledge of one other foreign language, to be chosen with the approval of their guidance committee. Students fulfill this requirement by (1) passing the University reading examination in the language; (2) successful completion of a University course of at least level 3; or (3) successful completion of two upper division literature courses in the foreign language. Students must fulfill the requirement no later than the sixth quarter of graduate study.

Course Requirements

A minimum of 20 graduate courses is required. Spanish or Portuguese M201A or M201B may be required if students have not previously taken it or similar courses elsewhere. Of the 20 courses, a total of four may be taken in other departments with the approval of the dissertation adviser. In the first year of the Ph.D. program, students take regularly scheduled graduate courses and seminars (200-series, excluding 291). In the second year students may take a combination of regularly scheduled and directed research (291 and 596) courses with the dissertation adviser. A maximum of 16 units of directed research is permitted.

Students who hold an M.A. degree in Spanish or Portuguese from another university may petition for up to nine graduate courses used for this master’s degree to count toward the Ph.D. degree.

Teaching Experience

Not required.

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.

The qualifying examinations consist of (1) presentation of a 40-60 page paper related to the specific dissertation area; (2) a three-hour written examination in the student’s field of specialization; 3) a two-hour University Oral Qualifying Examination at which the above research paper, written examination, and a dissertation prospectus are discussed. The written examination is based on a reading list approved by the advisory committee. The advisory committee also prepares the questions for the written examination. The examinations are normally taken no later than twelve quarters after admission into the graduate program with a B.A. degree and six quarters after receiving the M.A. degree. Only students who pass the qualifying examinations are advanced to candidacy for the Ph.D. degree.

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 Dissertation)

Required for all students in the program.

Time-to-Degree

For a full-time student taking three courses per quarter, the following figures are optimal: (a) from graduate admission to award of the M.A. degree: six quarters; (b) from award of the M.A. degree to authorization to form a guidance committee: one quarter; (c) from formation of a guidance committee to qualifying examinations: three to five quarters; (d) from passage of qualifying examinations (advancement to candidacy) to presentation of the dissertation: three to six quarters; (e) from graduate admission to award of the Ph.D. degree (or normative time-to-degree): six years (eighteen quarters).

Requirement	Standard Time to Completion
Coursework	During the 13th quarter in residence
Master’s Comprehensive Examination	By the 6th quarter in residence
Selection of Faculty Advisor	By the 7th quarter in residence
Oral Qualifying Examination (Advancement to Candidacy)	No later than the 13th quarter
Dissertation Filed	End of the 18th quarter

DEGREE	NORMATIVE TIME TO ATC (Quarters)	NORMATIVE TTD	MAXIMUM TTD
PhD	13	18	30

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

The Committee of Graduate Advisers in the department reviews each student’s progress at the end of each academic year. If the Committee finds that a student is not making satisfactory progress, they propose a probationary period during which certain conditions must be met. The departmental chair advises the student in writing of the Committee’s decision. A student who is unwilling to comply with the expectations of the chair and the Committee is subject to a recommendation for termination.

Master’s

Unsatisfactory progress is specifically defined by the department as the following:

(1) Failure to maintain a 3.0 grade point average.
(2) Failure to remove lapsed Incomplete grades within a specified time period.
(3) Failure to complete at least five courses in each full academic year for TA’s; seven courses for non-TA’s. A student may petition for reduced enrollment to the chair, who refers the petition to the Committee of Graduate Advisers. Petitions are approved only for extraordinary circumstances.
(4) Failure to complete the language requirement during or before the last quarter of course work.
(5) Failure to pass the master’s examination in two attempts (no degree awarded).
(6) Passing the M.A. examination but not receiving the recommendation of the committee to proceed to the doctoral program.
(7) Passing the M.A. examination on the second attempt (terminal master’s degree awarded).

A student may appeal a recommendation for termination in writing to the departmental chair who present the case first to the Committee of Graduate Advisers and, if needed, to the faculty of the department, whose decision is final.

Doctoral

Same as 1-4 for M.A. degree noted above.

A student may appeal a recommendation for termination in writing to the departmental chair who presents the case first to the Committee of Graduate Advisers and, if needed, to the faculty of the department, whose decision is final at the departmental level.

Applicable only to students admitted during the 2016-2017 academic year.

Conservation of Archaeological and Ethnographic Materials

Admissions Requirements

Master’s Degree

Advising

The chair/director of the program serves as the graduate adviser. Each student selects a faculty adviser who agrees to serve as the student’s M.A. committee chair and principal adviser. Student progress toward the degree is discussed each academic quarter by the student’s committee members and by the members of the UCLA/Getty Conservation IDP Faculty Advisory Committee.

Areas of Study

Students should consult the program.

Foreign Language Requirement

None.

Course Requirements

Our program is a three-year program with two years of instruction, a 10-week internship following the first year and a 9-month internship during the third year. A minimum of 130 units of course work are required for graduation. Graduation unit requirements: 80 units of graduate courses; 8 units of 598 (M.A. thesis preparation) and 42 units of 290 (internship).

Teaching Experience

Not required.

Field Experience

Eleven months of internship are required: one 10-week summer internship between the first and second year of study, and one 9-month internship following the second year of study. To expose the student to both field and institutional environments, it is preferred but not required that one internship be associated with a field project and the other be within a museum. The field project may include work on an archaeological excavation within an ethnology field project, work at an indigenous cultural center, or at other similar venues. The collections project may include work at a museum or other collecting institution, or at a regional laboratory where collections are curated and conserved. All intern placement must be pre-approved by the program and will be developed in collaboration between the student and faculty.

Capstone Plan

None.

Thesis Plan

Every master’s degree thesis plan requires the completion of an approved thesis that demonstrates the student’s ability to perform original, independent research.

Each student organizes a research project in consultation with the assigned faculty adviser no later than the end of their first year. The research project includes some or all of the following aspects of conservation-related research: examination of archaeological and/or ethnographic artifacts, assessment of the cultural context, analysis, experimentation with treatment or analysis techniques along with conservation treatment. The M.A. project includes the establishment of a methodology that guides the development of the research. The results are presented in a research paper between 7,500 and 10,000 words to the student’s three-member master’s thesis committee for evaluation.  In light of the number of courses required for the M.A. degree, students should carefully consider the subject and scope of their proposed M.A. paper in terms of the feasibility to complete it within the time-to-degree guidelines for the program.

Time-to-Degree

The M.A. degree is to be completed within three years (9 quarters).

DEGREE	NORMATIVE TIME TO ATC (Quarters)	NORMATIVE TTD	MAXIMUM TTD
M.A.	9	9	10

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

In addition to the reasons noted above, a student may be recommended for termination for an unsatisfactory master’s thesis. A student may appeal a recommendation for termination through a request for a hearing before the Executive Committee.

Applicable only to students admitted during the 2017-2018 academic year.

Conservation of Archaeological and Ethnographic Materials

Admissions Requirements

Master’s Degree

Advising

The chair/director of the program serves as the graduate adviser. Each student selects a faculty adviser who agrees to serve as the student’s M.A. committee chair and principal adviser. Student progress toward the degree is discussed each academic quarter by the student’s committee members and by the members of the UCLA/Getty Conservation IDP Faculty Advisory Committee.

Areas of Study

Students should consult the program.

Foreign Language Requirement

None.

Course Requirements

Our program is a three-year program with two years of instruction, a 10-week internship following the first year and a 9-month internship during the third year. A minimum of 130 units of course work are required for graduation. Graduation unit requirements: 80 units of graduate courses; 8 units of 598 (M.A. thesis preparation) and 42 units of 290 (internship).

Teaching Experience

Not required.

Field Experience

Eleven months of internship are required: one 10-week summer internship between the first and second year of study, and one 9-month internship following the second year of study. To expose the student to both field and institutional environments, it is preferred but not required that one internship be associated with a field project and the other be within a museum. The field project may include work on an archaeological excavation within an ethnology field project, work at an indigenous cultural center, or at other similar venues. The collections project may include work at a museum or other collecting institution, or at a regional laboratory where collections are curated and conserved. All intern placement must be pre-approved by the program and will be developed in collaboration between the student and faculty.

Capstone Plan

None.

Thesis Plan

Every master’s degree thesis plan requires the completion of an approved thesis that demonstrates the student’s ability to perform original, independent research.

Each student organizes a research project in consultation with the assigned faculty adviser no later than the end of their first year. The research project includes some or all of the following aspects of conservation-related research: examination of archaeological and/or ethnographic artifacts, assessment of the cultural context, analysis, experimentation with treatment or analysis techniques along with conservation treatment. The M.A. project includes the establishment of a methodology that guides the development of the research. The results are presented in a research paper between 7,500 and 10,000 words to the student’s three-member master’s thesis committee for evaluation.  In light of the number of courses required for the M.A. degree, students should carefully consider the subject and scope of their proposed M.A. paper in terms of the feasibility to complete it within the time-to-degree guidelines for the program.

Time-to-Degree

The M.A. degree is to be completed within three years (9 quarters).

DEGREE	NORMATIVE TIME TO ATC (Quarters)	NORMATIVE TTD	MAXIMUM TTD
M.A.	9	9	10

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

In addition to the reasons noted above, a student may be recommended for termination for an unsatisfactory master’s thesis. A student may appeal a recommendation for termination through a request for a hearing before the Executive Committee.

Applicable only to students admitted during the 2018-2019 academic year.

Conservation of Archaeological and Ethnographic Materials

Admissions Requirements

Master’s Degree

Advising

The chair/director of the program serves as the graduate adviser. Each student is assigned an adviser at the beginning of the first year of the program. Upon selection of a thesis topic, students select a faculty adviser who agrees to serve as the student’s M.A. committee chair and principal adviser. Student progress toward the degree is discussed each academic quarter, initially by the chair, and then by the student’s thesis committee chair and by the members of the UCLA/Getty Conservation IDP Faculty Advisory Committee.

Areas of Study

Students should consult the program.

Foreign Language Requirement

None.

Course Requirements

Our program is a three-year program with two years of instruction, a 10-week internship following the first year and a 9-month internship during the third year. A minimum of 130 units of course work are required for graduation. Graduation unit requirements: 80 units of graduate courses; 8 units of 598 (M.A. thesis preparation) and 42 units of 290 (internship).

Teaching Experience

Not required.

Field Experience

Eleven months of internship are required: one 10-week summer internship between the first and second year of study, and one 9-month internship following the second year of study. To expose the student to both field and institutional environments, it is preferred but not required that one internship be associated with a field project and the other be within a museum. The field project may include work on an archaeological excavation, work within an ethnology field project, work at an indigenous cultural center, or at other similar venues. The collections project may include work at a museum or other collecting institution, or at a regional laboratory where collections are curated and conserved. All intern placement must be pre-approved by the program core faculty and will be developed in collaboration between the student and faculty.

Capstone Plan

None.

Thesis Plan

Every master’s degree thesis plan requires the completion of an approved thesis that demonstrates the student’s ability to perform original, independent research.

Each student organizes a research project in consultation with IDP Core faculty no later than the end of their first year. The research project includes some or all of the following aspects of conservation-related research: examination of archaeological and/or ethnographic artifacts, assessment of the cultural context, analysis, experimentation with treatment or analysis techniques along with conservation treatment. The M.A. project includes the establishment of a methodology that guides the development of the research. The results are presented in a research paper between 7,500 and 10,000 words to the student’s three-member master’s thesis committee for evaluation.  In light of the number of courses required for the M.A. degree, students should carefully consider the subject and scope of their proposed M.A. paper in terms of the feasibility to complete it within the time-to-degree guidelines for the program. Students are strongly encouraged to complete thesis research during their second year in the program.

Time-to-Degree

The M.A. degree is to be completed within three years (9 quarters).

DEGREE	NORMATIVE TIME TO ATC (Quarters)	NORMATIVE TTD	MAXIMUM TTD
M.A.	9	9	10

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

In addition to the reasons noted above, a student may be recommended for termination for an unsatisfactory master’s thesis. A student may appeal a recommendation for termination through a request for a hearing before the Executive Committee.

Applicable only to students admitted during the 2019-2020 academic year.

Conservation of Archaeological and Ethnographic Materials

Interdepartmental Program
College of Letters and Science

Graduate Degrees

The Conservation of Archaeological and Ethnographic Materials Interdepartmental Program offers the Master of Arts (M.A.) in Conservation of Archaeological and Ethnographic Materials and the Master of Science (M.S.) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degrees in Conservation of Material Culture.

Conservation of Archaeological and Ethnographic Materials

Admissions Requirements

Master’s Degree

Advising

The chair/director of the program serves as the graduate adviser. Each student is assigned an adviser at the beginning of the first year of the program. Upon selection of a thesis topic, students select a faculty adviser who agrees to serve as the student’s M.A. committee chair and principal adviser. Student progress toward the degree is discussed each academic quarter, initially by the chair, and then by the student’s thesis committee chair and by the members of the UCLA/Getty Conservation IDP Faculty Advisory Committee.

Areas of Study

Students should consult the program.

Foreign Language Requirement

None.

Course Requirements

Our program is a three-year program with two years of instruction, a 10-week internship following the first year and a 9-month internship during the third year. A minimum of 130 units of course work are required for graduation. Graduation unit requirements: 80 units of graduate courses; 8 units of 598 (M.A. thesis preparation) and 42 units of 290 (internship).

Teaching Experience

Not required.

Field Experience

Eleven months of internship are required: one 10-week summer internship between the first and second year of study, and one 9-month internship following the second year of study. To expose the student to both field and institutional environments, it is preferred but not required that one internship be associated with a field project and the other be within a museum. The field project may include work on an archaeological excavation, work within an ethnology field project, work at an indigenous cultural center, or at other similar venues. The collections project may include work at a museum or other collecting institution, or at a regional laboratory where collections are curated and conserved. All intern placement must be pre-approved by the program core faculty and will be developed in collaboration between the student and faculty.

Capstone Plan

None.

Thesis Plan

Every master’s degree thesis plan requires the completion of an approved thesis that demonstrates the student’s ability to perform original, independent research.

Each student organizes a research project in consultation with IDP Core faculty no later than the end of their first year. The research project includes some or all of the following aspects of conservation-related research: examination of archaeological and/or ethnographic artifacts, assessment of the cultural context, analysis, experimentation with treatment or analysis techniques along with conservation treatment. The M.A. project includes the establishment of a methodology that guides the development of the research. The results are presented in a research paper between 7,500 and 10,000 words to the student’s three-member master’s thesis committee for evaluation.  In light of the number of courses required for the M.A. degree, students should carefully consider the subject and scope of their proposed M.A. paper in terms of the feasibility to complete it within the time-to-degree guidelines for the program. Students are strongly encouraged to complete thesis research during their second year in the program.

Time-to-Degree

The M.A. degree is to be completed within three years (9 quarters).

DEGREE	NORMATIVE TIME TO ATC (Quarters)	NORMATIVE TTD	MAXIMUM TTD
M.A.	9	9	10

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

In addition to the reasons noted above, a student may be recommended for termination for an unsatisfactory master’s thesis. A student may appeal a recommendation for termination through a request for a hearing before the Executive Committee.

Applicable only to students admitted during the 2020-2021 academic year.

Conservation of Archaeological and Ethnographic Materials

Interdepartmental Program
College of Letters and Science

Graduate Degrees

The Conservation of Archaeological and Ethnographic Materials Interdepartmental Program offers the Master of Arts (M.A.) in Conservation of Archaeological and Ethnographic Materials and the Master of Science (M.S.) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degrees in Conservation of Material Culture.

Conservation of Archaeological and Ethnographic Materials

Admissions Requirements

Master’s Degree

Advising

The chair/director of the program serves as the graduate adviser. Each student is assigned an adviser at the beginning of the first year of the program. Upon selection of a thesis topic, students select a faculty adviser who agrees to serve as the student’s M.A. committee chair and principal adviser. Student progress toward the degree is discussed each academic quarter, initially by the chair, and then by the student’s thesis committee chair and by the members of the UCLA/Getty Conservation IDP Faculty Advisory Committee.

Areas of Study

Students should consult the program.

Foreign Language Requirement

None.

Course Requirements

Our program is a three-year program with two years of instruction, a 10-week internship following the first year and a 9-month internship during the third year. A minimum of 130 units of course work are required for graduation. Graduation unit requirements: 80 units of graduate courses; 8 units of 598 (M.A. thesis preparation) and 42 units of 290 (internship).

Teaching Experience

Not required.

Field Experience

Eleven months of internship are required: one 10-week summer internship between the first and second year of study, and one 9-month internship following the second year of study. To expose the student to both field and institutional environments, it is preferred but not required that one internship be associated with a field project and the other be within a museum. The field project may include work on an archaeological excavation, work within an ethnology field project, work at an indigenous cultural center, or at other similar venues. The collections project may include work at a museum or other collecting institution, or at a regional laboratory where collections are curated and conserved. All intern placement must be pre-approved by the program core faculty and will be developed in collaboration between the student and faculty.

Capstone Plan

None.

Thesis Plan

Every master’s degree thesis plan requires the completion of an approved thesis that demonstrates the student’s ability to perform original, independent research.

Each student organizes a research project in consultation with IDP Core faculty no later than the end of their first year. The research project includes some or all of the following aspects of conservation-related research: examination of archaeological and/or ethnographic artifacts, assessment of the cultural context, analysis, experimentation with treatment or analysis techniques along with conservation treatment. The M.A. project includes the establishment of a methodology that guides the development of the research. The results are presented in a research paper between 7,500 and 10,000 words to the student’s three-member master’s thesis committee for evaluation.  In light of the number of courses required for the M.A. degree, students should carefully consider the subject and scope of their proposed M.A. paper in terms of the feasibility to complete it within the time-to-degree guidelines for the program. Students are strongly encouraged to complete thesis research during their second year in the program.

Time-to-Degree

The M.A. degree is to be completed within three years (9 quarters).

DEGREE	NORMATIVE TIME TO ATC (Quarters)	NORMATIVE TTD	MAXIMUM TTD
M.A.	9	9	10

Academic Disqualification and Appeal of Disqualification

University Policy

A student who fails to meet the above requirements may be recommended for academic disqualification from 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 academic disqualification of graduate students, including the appeal procedure, are outlined in Standards and Procedures for Graduate Study at UCLA.

Special Departmental or Program Policy

In addition to the reasons noted above, a student may be recommended for termination for an unsatisfactory master’s thesis. A student may appeal a recommendation for termination through a request for a hearing before the Executive Committee.