English (ENGL)
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing and one of the following: ENGL 200, ENGL 205, ENGL 206, ENGL ENGL 208, ENGL 212, ENGL 215, ENGL 216, ENGL 230, ENGL 230A, ENGL 231, ENGL 242, ENGL 244, ENGL 260, or ENGL 261.
Description: Particular historical periods or other groupings of dramas. The relation of the writers both to one another and to the aesthetic and intellectual climate of their times. Examples: drama survey, modern drama, American drama, and Shakespeare's contemporaries in drama.
Prerequisites: Junior standing
Description: Overview of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer drama and popular culture.
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing and one of the following courses: ENGL 200, ENGL 205, ENGL 206, ENGL 208, ENGL 212, ENGL 215, ENGL 216, ENGL 230, ENGL 230A, ENGL 231, ENGL 242, ENGL 244, ENGL 260, or ENGL 261.
Description: Epic, Renaissance, Romantic, Victorian, American, and contemporary poetry.
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing and one of the following courses: ENGL 200, ENGL 205, ENGL 206, ENGL 208, ENGL 212, ENGL 215, ENGL 216, ENGL 230, ENGL 230A, ENGL 231, ENGL 242, ENGL 244, ENGL 260, or ENGL 261.
Description: The narrative genre of the short story, as represented by stories from American authors of the nineteenth century to the present day.
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing and one of the following courses: ENGL 200, ENGL 205, ENGL 206, ENGL 208, ENGL 212, ENGL 215, ENGL 216, ENGL 230, ENGL 230A, ENGL 231, ENGL 242, ENGL 244, ENGL 260, or ENGL 261.
Description: Fiction, primarily novels, in particular historical periods or other groupings. The relation of the writers both to one another and to the aesthetic and intellectual climate of their time.
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing and one of the following courses: ENGL 200, ENGL 205, ENGL 206, ENGL 208, ENGL 212, ENGL 215, ENGL 216, ENGL 230, ENGL 230A, ENGL 231, ENGL 242, ENGL 244, ENGL 260, or ENGL 261.
Description: The most popular and influential literary genre in the nineteenth century, the novel, through representative Romantic, Victorian, and "fin de siecle" (end of century) works.
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing and one of the following courses: ENGL 200, ENGL 205, ENGL 206, ENGL 208, ENGL 212, ENGL 215, ENGL 216, ENGL 230, ENGL 230A, ENGL 231, ENGL 242, ENGL 244, ENGL 260, or ENGL 261.
Description: Key British and American novels and short stories from about 1910 to 1950. Modernism as a literary and cultural practice. Modernism's interpretation of the revolutionary changes in culture and society in the first half of the twentieth century. The relation between modernism and postmodernism.
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing and one of the following courses: ENGL 200, ENGL 205, ENGL 206, ENGL 208, ENGL 212, ENGL 215, ENGL 216, ENGL 230, ENGL 230A, ENGL 231, ENGL 242, ENGL 244, ENGL 260, or ENGL 261.
Description: Survey of novels written by a variety of men and women of diverse backgrounds in the United States from 1900 to the present day.
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing and one of the following courses: ENGL 200, ENGL 205, ENGL 206, ENGL 208, ENGL 212, ENGL 215, ENGL 216, ENGL 230, ENGL 230A, ENGL 231, ENGL 242, ENGL 244, ENGL 260, or ENGL 261.
Description: History and theory of the concept of genre as exemplified in literary works in various forms: comedy, tragedy, and satire.
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing and one of the following courses: ENGL 200, ENGL 205, ENGL 206, ENGL 208, ENGL 212, ENGL 215, ENGL 216, ENGL 230, ENGL 230A, ENGL 231, ENGL 242, ENGL 244, ENGL 260, or ENGL 261.
Description: A literary movement (national or transnational), the development of a genre, or the intellectual and historical origins of an idea, as reflected in literature. May include the literature of abolition, alternative Romanticism, literary modernism, the literature of Civil Rights, postmodernism, and/or the avant garde movement.
Prerequisites: Junior standing
Description: Various forms of literature seen in the historical, cultural, and aesthetic context of the North American Great Plains.
Prerequisites: Junior standing.
Description: A particular historical or other groups of literature by and about women, seen in their aesthetic and intellectual context.
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing.
Description: The in depth analysis of a particular topic in place studies and the environmental humanities.
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing and one of the following courses: ENGL 200, ENGL 205, ENGL 206, ENGL 208, ENGL 212, ENGL 215, ENGL 216, ENGL 230, ENGL 230A, ENGL 231, ENGL 242, ENGL 244, ENGL 260, or ENGL 261.
Description: The works of a particular major author, such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, or Milton situated within literary, historical, biographical, and critical context.
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing and one of the following courses: ENGL 200, ENGL 205, ENGL 206, ENGL 208, ENGL 212, ENGL 215, ENGL 216, ENGL 230, ENGL 230A, ENGL 231, ENGL 242, ENGL 244, ENGL 260, or ENGL 261.
Description: How performance-based strategies can help in understanding and in teaching Shakespeare's plays. The historical and contemporary stage practices, the performance history of these plays, and recent criticism that engages with the insights of both Performance Theory and Semiotics.
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing and one of the following courses: ENGL 200, ENGL 205, ENGL 206, ENGL 208, ENGL 212, ENGL 215, ENGL 216, ENGL 230, ENGL 230A, ENGL 231, ENGL 242, ENGL 244, ENGL 260, or ENGL 261.
Description: The works of a particular major author seen in a wide critical context.
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing and one of the following courses: ENGL 200, ENGL 205, ENGL 206, ENGL 208, ENGL 212, ENGL 215, ENGL 216, ENGL 230, ENGL 230A, ENGL 231, ENGL 242, ENGL 244, ENGL 260, or ENGL 261.
Description: Extensive study in the works of a particular major author seen in a wide critical context.
Prerequisites: Senior standing.
Description: Greek and Roman tragedy and comedy in translation.
Description: Works of writers with connections to one or more American ethnic communities, seen in their historical, intellectual, and cultural context. Survey of ethnic literature.
Prerequisites: Junior standing
Description: The study of a particular topic in African American poetry, fiction, and/or non-fiction prose.
Prerequisites: Junior standing
Description: Topics in African poetry, fiction, and/or non-fiction prose.
Prerequisites: Junior standing
Description: Topics in Native American poetry, fiction, and/or non-fiction prose. Critical theory and cultural criticism.
ENGL 852 is for advanced students with previous experience in fiction writing.
Description: Longer projects in fiction writing.
Description: Advanced (workshop) course for creative writers; emphasis on memoirs, personal essays, other forms of literary non-fiction.
Description: For advanced students with previous experience in poetry writing.
Description: Advanced writing workshop in which experienced writers develop extended projects in writing, analyze their own and others' writing processes, and read widely in genres related to their projects.
Description: Theoretical approaches to writing instruction and to the field of composition and rhetoric.
Description: Topics in writing instruction, explored via the National Writing Project Institute model, for K-12 and college teachers of writing in all curricular areas.
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing and one of the following courses: ENGL 200, ENGL 205, ENGL 206, ENGL 208, ENGL 212, ENGL 215, ENGL 216, ENGL 230, ENGL 230A, ENGL 231, ENGL 242, ENGL 244, ENGL 260, or ENGL 261.
Description: The various genres and movements of Medieval English literature and their cultural context.
Description: Medieval and Renaissance literary texts that involve encounters between different religions and cultures. Readings from chronicles, romances, travel writings, debates, and epics.
Description: Extensive study of major authors and works of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries with particular attention to the development of poetic and prose literary forms and their cultural context.
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing and one of the following courses: ENGL 200, ENGL 205, ENGL 206, ENGL 208, ENGL 212, ENGL 215, ENGL 216, ENGL 230, ENGL 230A, ENGL 231, ENGL 242, ENGL 244, ENGL 260, or ENGL 261.
Description: Major writers and critical issues of the period. Emphasis on poetry and nonfiction prose.
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing and one of the following courses: ENGL 200, ENGL 205, ENGL 206, ENGL 208, ENGL 212, ENGL 215, ENGL 216, ENGL 230, ENGL 230A, ENGL 231, ENGL 242, ENGL 244, ENGL 260, or ENGL 261.
Description: Poetry and prose of the Romantic and Victorian periods. Their intellectual and cultural context.
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing and one of the following courses: ENGL 200, ENGL 205, ENGL 206, ENGL 208, ENGL 212, ENGL 215, ENGL 216, ENGL 230, ENGL 230A, ENGL 231, ENGL 242, ENGL 244, ENGL 260, or ENGL 261.
Description: Theory of literary periods and movements and the causes for change among them. Periods, movements, and readings are taken from British literature from about 1475 to about 1950.
Description: History, analysis and application of a variety of trends in literary and/or film theory.
Prerequisites: Junior standing.
Description: Provide students with real, in-depth experience in collaboratively creating digital humanities projects. Guided by faculty with expertise in a broad range of digital humanities methods and resources, students work in teams to tackle challenges proposed by UNL researchers and/or local and regional humanities organizations.
Prerequisites: Junior or Senior standing
May not be offered every year.
Description: Rhetoric and rhetorical theory in relation to literature, composition, and language.
Prerequisites: Junior standing
Description: Rhetoric and rhetorical theory of women writers and speakers and its implications for literature, composition, literacy, feminist theory, and women's and gender studies.
Prerequisites: Junior standing
Description: Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities provides students the opportunity to study, learn, and practice a digital humanities method in considerable depth. These courses tend to be project oriented and frequently involve collaborative work. Topics will vary.
Prerequisites: Junior standing
Description: The shift from printed to digital texts and its implications for the humanities. Practice in digitally representing texts, archival design, and analysis of representative electronic projects dedicated to a variety of authors and genres.
Description: Introduction to writing center theory and consulting practice. Students engage in research that contributes to scholarly conversations in writing center studies. Successful completion of ENGL 880 is strongly recommended for students seeking to work in the UNL Writing Center.
Prerequisites: Junior standing
May include a literacy and/or writing internship in a community or workplace setting.
Description: Literacy theory and its application in school, community, and workplace environments.
Prerequisites: Permission
Description: For international graduate students designed to develop academic language skills.
Prerequisites: Permission
Description: Advanced tutorial in academic writing for international graduate students.
Prerequisites: Permission
Description: Speech improvement course for international graduate students.
Description: The relationship between significant medieval theologies and primary medieval poets and prose masters.
Description: Practical mastery of print, electronic, and other resources related to advanced study in English; understanding of scholarship as conversation, research as inquiry, authority as constructed and contextual, information creation as a process, searching as strategic exploration, and the various kinds of value that information has.
Prerequisites: Senior standing.
Description: Topics vary.
Description: Educates and supports graduate students as they prepare and work through their doctoral exam lists and begin their dissertation research and writing.
Prerequisites: Permission
Description: Each participant commits to developing an internship project, in which they will explore teaching writing with technology, editing, publishing, community engagement, and/or pedagogy.
Prerequisites: Permission
Description: Active participation in an ongoing digital humanities project in the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, including weekly meetings designed to build technical and project management skills.
Prerequisites: Permission.
Description: Directed reading or research.
Prerequisites: Admission to masters degree program and permission of major adviser
Description: Invention of the nineteenth century, gender, colonialism, class, realism science and technology.
Description: Introduction to the nineteenth century in North America (focusing on the US), Great Britain, and Europe (focusing on France, Germany, Russia, and Spain), organized through themes such as constructions of gender and sexuality, democracy in the nation-state, and challenges to religion.
Description: Issues of importance to a particular ethnic experience through the study of relevant literary texts.
Description: Methods, theories, and practices of digital humanities scholarship.
Description: The course has three elements: workshop, seminar, and discussion of the teaching of creative writing.
Description: Summer institute for K-12 and college teachers of writing in all curricular areas, taught on the National Writing Project model.
Description: Emerging models of English studies that cross traditional boundaries. Traces disciplinary concerns across three registers: scholarship, curriculum, and pedagogy.
Description: Methods and state of research in the disciplines--art, music, literature, language, history, philosophy--dealing with the Middle Ages. Assistance in independent reading and research in subjects related to the student's own research interests. Taught jointly by faculty members in art, music, theatre, English, history, classics, modern languages, and philosophy.
Description: Methods and state of research in the disciplines--art, music, literature, language, history, philosophy--dealing with the Renaissance. Assistance in independent reading and research in subjects related to the student's own research interests. Taught jointly by faculty members in art, music, theatre, English, history, classics, modern languages, and philosophy.
Description: Introduction to a variety of approaches to research and scholarship current in the discipline.
Description: Theory and practice of teaching writing, literature, and rhetoric in connection with local place, region, and community.
Description: Personalized feedback on job application materials and assistance in preparing materials that present the student's advanced graduate work.
Prerequisites: Admission to doctoral degree program and permission of supervisory committee chair