Life Sciences Undergraduate Assistant Application

UA Responsibilities:
  1. You MUST be available for two hours every Monday (time yet to be determined) for a weekly meeting. Please remember that these meetings are mandatory.
  2. During weeks with labs, you will:
    1. Assist in the TA in the running of two lab sections each week. This includes arriving early to help prepare the lab for student use and remaining after lab to complete clean-up.
    2. Give 1 small (7 to 10 minute), pre-prepared mini-lecture during one lab on a specific topic directly related to that week's lab.
    3. Prepare multiple choice and short answer examination questions based on lab material.
  3. During weeks in which there is no lab, you will attend a class on Mondays. In lab meetings you will:
    1. Learn relevant educational techniques and skills.
    2. Review experiences in the classroom.
    3. Review material to be taught in lab the following week.
  4. Additionally, each UA will be expected to prepare and present, to the other UA's during the UA class (see #3), one mini-lecture per quarter. This lecture will increase fellow UAs' expertise at specific lab protocol.
Weekly Monday meeting times will not be determined until 1 week before the start of the quarter. Hence, you must leave your Mondays relatively free.

Application Deadlines:
 (2 weeks before the first day of instruction for the quarter.)

Notifications will be sent out via e-mail one week before the first day of instruction.
Late applications will be considered on the basis of space availability and qualifications. So please apply!

Please fill in the form below and click "submit" when finished.
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Name:
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Student ID number:
Major:
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For which position are you applying?
For which quarter are you applying? Quarter

I have taken LS 1 in
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                   and recieved a grade of:

Taken at UCLA?
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I have taken LS 2 in
 Quarter,
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I have taken LS 3 in
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I have taken LS 4 in
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                  and recieved a grade of:

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I have been a UA before
and taken LS 192A/B
(formerly LS 194) in


Quarter, Year
                  for:


Taken at UCLA?
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Have you applied for the program before and been placed on the waitlist?
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If so, when:?
 Quarter, Year

Why would you like to be an Undergraduate Assistant?

Beyond the UA responsibilities listed at the begining of this application, what do you believe a UA could/should contribute to the lab? (i.e. What do you envision as the job of a UA?