English (ENGL)

ENGL801
DramaCrosslisted with ENGL 401

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.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL801K
LGBTQ Drama and Popular CultureCrosslisted with ENGL 401K, WMNS 401K, WMNS 801K

Prerequisites: Junior standing

Description: Overview of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer drama and popular culture.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL802
PoetryCrosslisted with ENGL 402

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.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL802L
Romantic PoetryCrosslisted with ENGL 402L

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 British poetry, 1780-1835. The traditional major authors and some of the many other poets whose works were popular and influential. The social, historical, and cultural context.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL803
American Short StoryCrosslisted with ENGL 403

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.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL805
FictionCrosslisted with ENGL 405

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.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL805A
19th Century British NovelCrosslisted with ENGL 405A

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.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL805B
18th Century British NovelCrosslisted with ENGL 405B

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 British fiction (primarily novels), 1780-1850. Major and minor authors whose works illustrate the tastes and trends of British fiction in the early modern period. The literary, social, and cultural context.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL805E
Modern FictionCrosslisted with ENGL 405E

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.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL805K
Canadian FictionCrosslisted with ENGL 405K

Prerequisites: Junior standing

Description: Survey of modern Canadian novels and short stories from 1920 to the present plus some other genres. The historical and cultural context.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL805M
American Novel ICrosslisted with ENGL 405M

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 the late eighteenth century to 1900.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL805N
American Novel IICrosslisted with ENGL 405N

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.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL806
GenreCrosslisted with ENGL 406

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.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL810
Studies in Literary MovementsCrosslisted with ENGL 410

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.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL811
Plains LiteratureCrosslisted with ENGL 411

Prerequisites: Junior standing

Description: Various forms of literature seen in the historical, cultural, and aesthetic context of the North American Great Plains.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

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ENGL814
Women's LiteratureCrosslisted with ENGL 414, WMNS 414, WMNS 814

Prerequisites: Junior standing.

Description: A particular historical or other groups of literature by and about women, seen in their aesthetic and intellectual context.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL814B
Modern and Contemporary Women WritersCrosslisted with ENGL 414B

Prerequisites: Junior standing

Description: Selected women writers from the twentieth and twenty-first century.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL817
Topics in Place Studies and Environmental HumanitiesCrosslisted with ENGL 417

Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing.

Description: The in depth analysis of a particular topic in place studies and the environmental humanities.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL830
British Authors to 1800Crosslisted with ENGL 430

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.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

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ENGL830A
Shakespeare ICrosslisted with ENGL 430A

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.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

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ENGL832
American Authors to 1900Crosslisted with ENGL 432

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.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL833
American Authors Since 1900Crosslisted with ENGL 433

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.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL840
Classical DramaCrosslisted with CLAS 483, CLAS 883, ENGL 440

Prerequisites: Senior standing.

Description: Greek and Roman tragedy and comedy in translation.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL845
Ethnic LiteratureCrosslisted with ENGL 445, ETHN 445

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.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option
Groups:CAS Diversity in the US

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL845B
Topics in African American LiteratureCrosslisted with ENGL 445B, ETHN 445B

Prerequisites: Junior standing

Description: The study of a particular topic in African American poetry, fiction, and/or non-fiction prose.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL845K
Topics in African LiteratureCrosslisted with ENGL 445K, ETHN 445K

Prerequisites: Junior standing

Description: Topics in African poetry, fiction, and/or non-fiction prose.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL845N
Topics in Native American LiteratureCrosslisted with ENGL 445N, ETHN 445N

Prerequisites: Junior standing

Description: Topics in Native American poetry, fiction, and/or non-fiction prose. Critical theory and cultural criticism.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL852
Fiction Writing

ENGL 852 is for advanced students with previous experience in fiction writing.

Description: Longer projects in fiction writing.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:9
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL852A
Writing of Literary Non-Fiction

Description: Advanced (workshop) course for creative writers; emphasis on memoirs, personal essays, other forms of literary non-fiction.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:9
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL853
Writing of Poetry

Description: For advanced students with previous experience in poetry writing.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:9
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option
Groups:Creative Writing

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL854
Advanced Writing Projects

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.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:9
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL857A
Composition and Rhetorical Theory

Description: Theoretical approaches to writing instruction and to the field of composition and rhetoric.

Course details
Credit Hours:3-4
Max credits per semester:4
Max credits per degree:4
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3-4

ACE:

ENGL857B
Nebraska Writing ProjectCrosslisted with TEAC 857B

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.

Course details
Credit Hours:1-3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:1-3

ACE:

ENGL862
Survey of Medieval LiteratureCrosslisted with ENGL 462

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.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL862A
Ideas of Ethnicity in Medieval and Renaissance LiteratureCrosslisted with ENGL 462A

Description: Medieval and Renaissance literary texts that involve encounters between different religions and cultures. Readings from chronicles, romances, travel writings, debates, and epics.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL863
Survey of Renaissance LiteratureCrosslisted with ENGL 463

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.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL864
British Literature, 1660-1800Crosslisted with ENGL 464

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.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL865
Nineteenth-Century British LiteratureCrosslisted with ENGL 465

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.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL867
Literary HistoryCrosslisted with ENGL 467

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.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL871
Literary Criticism and Theory

Description: History, analysis and application of a variety of trends in literary and/or film theory.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL872
Digital Humanities PracticumCrosslisted with ENGL 472, HIST 472, HIST 872, ANTH 471, ANTH 871, MODL 472, MODL 872

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.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL875
RhetoricCrosslisted with ENGL 475

Prerequisites: Junior or Senior standing

May not be offered every year.

Description: Rhetoric and rhetorical theory in relation to literature, composition, and language.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL875A
Rhetorical Theory: Rhetoric of Women WritersCrosslisted with ENGL 475A, WMNS 475A, WMNS 875A

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.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL877
Advanced Topics in Digital HumanitiesCrosslisted with ENGL 477

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.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL878
Digital Archives and EditionsCrosslisted with ENGL 478

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.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL880
Writing Center Theory, Practice, and Research

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.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL881
GESL/Academic Research
Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL882
Literacy Issues and CommunityCrosslisted with ENGL 482

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.

Course details
Credit Hours:3-6
Max credits per semester:6
Max credits per degree:6
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3-6

ACE:

ENGL886
GESL and/or Academic Language Skills

Prerequisites: Permission

Description: For international graduate students designed to develop academic language skills.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL887
GESL and/or Academic Research Skills

Prerequisites: Permission

Description: Advanced tutorial in academic writing for international graduate students.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL888
Spoken English for International Students

Prerequisites: Permission

Description: Speech improvement course for international graduate students.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL889
Medieval Literature and TheologyCrosslisted with ENGL 489

Description: The relationship between significant medieval theologies and primary medieval poets and prose masters.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL890
Advanced Research Skills in English

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.

Course details
Credit Hours:1
Max credits per semester:1
Max credits per degree:1
Grading Option:Pass No-Pass

Credit Hours:1

ACE:

ENGL892
Special Topics in EnglishCrosslisted with ENGL 492

Prerequisites: Senior standing.

Description: Topics vary.

Course details
Credit Hours:1-3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:6
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:1-3

ACE:

ENGL893
From Comprehensive Exams to Dissertation

Description: Educates and supports graduate students as they prepare and work through their doctoral exam lists and begin their dissertation research and writing.

Course details
Credit Hours:1
Max credits per semester:1
Max credits per degree:1
Grading Option:Pass No-Pass

Credit Hours:1

ACE:

ENGL895
Internship in English

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.

Course details
Credit Hours:0-3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:6
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option
Offered:FALL/SPR

Credit Hours:0-3

ACE:

ENGL895A
Nebraska Writing Project InternshipCrosslisted with TEAC 895A

Prerequisites: Permission

Course details
Credit Hours:1-3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:1-3

ACE:

ENGL895E
Internship in Digital HumanitiesCrosslisted with MODL 895, HIST 895

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.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL896
Independent Study in English

Prerequisites: Permission.

Description: Directed reading or research.

Course details
Credit Hours:1-3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:6
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:1-3

ACE:

ENGL899
Masters Thesis

Prerequisites: Admission to masters degree program and permission of major adviser

Course details
Credit Hours:1-10
Max credits per semester:10
Max credits per degree:99
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:1-10

ACE:

ENGL901
Seminar in Drama
Course details
Credit Hours:1-24
Max credits per semester:24
Max credits per degree:24
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:1-24

ACE:

ENGL902
Seminar in Poetry
Course details
Credit Hours:1-24
Max credits per semester:24
Max credits per degree:24
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:1-24

ACE:

ENGL905
Seminar in Prose Fiction
Course details
Credit Hours:1-24
Max credits per semester:24
Max credits per degree:24
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:1-24

ACE:

ENGL911
Seminar in Plains Literature
Course details
Credit Hours:1-24
Max credits per semester:24
Max credits per degree:24
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:1-24

ACE:

ENGL913
Studies in Film
Course details
Credit Hours:3-4
Max credits per semester:4
Max credits per degree:4
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option
Course and Laboratory Fee:$30

Credit Hours:3-4

ACE:

ENGL914
Seminar in Women Writers
Course details
Credit Hours:1-24
Max credits per semester:24
Max credits per degree:24
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:1-24

ACE:

ENGL915
Popular Literature
Course details
Credit Hours:1-24
Max credits per semester:24
Max credits per degree:24
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:1-24

ACE:

ENGL918
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nineteenth-Century StudiesCrosslisted with HIST 918, MODL 918

Description: Invention of the nineteenth century, gender, colonialism, class, realism science and technology.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:6
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL919
Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Nineteenth CenturyCrosslisted with HIST 919, MODL 919

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.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL930
Seminar in British Authors to 1800
Course details
Credit Hours:1-24
Max credits per semester:24
Max credits per degree:24
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:1-24

ACE:

ENGL931
Seminar in British Authors since 1800
Course details
Credit Hours:1-24
Max credits per semester:24
Max credits per degree:24
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:1-24

ACE:

ENGL932
Seminar in American Authors to 1900
Course details
Credit Hours:1-24
Max credits per semester:24
Max credits per degree:24
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:1-24

ACE:

ENGL933
Seminar in American Authors since 1900
Course details
Credit Hours:1-24
Max credits per semester:24
Max credits per degree:24
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:1-24

ACE:

ENGL940
Seminar in African-American Literature
Course details
Credit Hours:1-24
Max credits per semester:24
Max credits per degree:24
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:1-24

ACE:

ENGL945
Seminar in Ethnic LiteratureCrosslisted with ETHN 945

Description: Issues of importance to a particular ethnic experience through the study of relevant literary texts.

Course details
Credit Hours:3-4
Max credits per semester:4
Max credits per degree:4
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3-4

ACE:

ENGL946
Interdisciplinary Readings in Digital HumanitiesCrosslisted with MODL 946, HIST 946, ANTH 946

Description: Methods, theories, and practices of digital humanities scholarship.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL953
Seminar in Creative Writing

Description: The course has three elements: workshop, seminar, and discussion of the teaching of creative writing.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:9
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL957
Composition Theory and Practice
Course details
Credit Hours:1-24
Max credits per semester:24
Max credits per degree:24
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:1-24

ACE:

ENGL957B
Nebraska Writing ProjectCrosslisted with TEAC 957B

Description: Summer institute for K-12 and college teachers of writing in all curricular areas, taught on the National Writing Project model.

Course details
Credit Hours:6
Max credits per semester:6
Max credits per degree:6
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:6

ACE:

ENGL961
Seminar in American Literature
Course details
Credit Hours:1-24
Max credits per semester:24
Max credits per degree:24
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:1-24

ACE:

ENGL962
Seminar in Medieval Literature
Course details
Credit Hours:1-24
Max credits per semester:24
Max credits per degree:24
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:1-24

ACE:

ENGL963
Seminar in Renaissance Literature
Course details
Credit Hours:1-24
Max credits per semester:24
Max credits per degree:24
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:1-24

ACE:

ENGL964
Seminar in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature
Course details
Credit Hours:1-24
Max credits per semester:24
Max credits per degree:24
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:1-24

ACE:

ENGL965
Seminar in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Course details
Credit Hours:1-24
Max credits per semester:24
Max credits per degree:24
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:1-24

ACE:

ENGL967
Seminar in Modern Literature
Course details
Credit Hours:1-24
Max credits per semester:24
Max credits per degree:24
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:1-24

ACE:

ENGL971
Seminar in Literary Theory
Course details
Credit Hours:1-24
Max credits per semester:24
Max credits per degree:24
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:1-24

ACE:

ENGL973
Seminar in Literacy Studies
Course details
Credit Hours:1-24
Max credits per semester:24
Max credits per degree:24
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:1-24

ACE:

ENGL976
Seminar in Rhetorical Theory
Course details
Credit Hours:1-24
Max credits per semester:24
Max credits per degree:24
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:1-24

ACE:

ENGL986
Approaches to English Studies

Description: Emerging models of English studies that cross traditional boundaries. Traces disciplinary concerns across three registers: scholarship, curriculum, and pedagogy.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL988
Introduction to the Interdisciplinary Study of the Middle AgesCrosslisted with AHIS 988, MUSC 988

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.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL989
Introduction to the Interdisciplinary Study of the RenaissanceCrosslisted with AHIS 989, HIST 989, MODL 989, MUSC 989

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.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL990
Introduction to Research and Scholarship in English

Description: Introduction to a variety of approaches to research and scholarship current in the discipline.

Course details
Credit Hours:1-24
Max credits per semester:24
Max credits per degree:24
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:1-24

ACE:

ENGL991
Nebraska Literature Project
Course details
Credit Hours:1-24
Max credits per semester:24
Max credits per degree:24
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:1-24

ACE:

ENGL992
Nebraska Humanities ProjectCrosslisted with TEAC 992
Course details
Credit Hours:1-24
Max credits per semester:24
Max credits per degree:24
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:1-24

ACE:

ENGL992B
Place Conscious TeachingCrosslisted with TEAC 992B

Description: Theory and practice of teaching writing, literature, and rhetoric in connection with local place, region, and community.

Course details
Credit Hours:1-6
Max credits per semester:6
Max credits per degree:6
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:1-6

ACE:

ENGL993
Academic Professionalization and Presentation

Description: Personalized feedback on job application materials and assistance in preparing materials that present the student's advanced graduate work.

Course details
Credit Hours:1
Max credits per semester:1
Max credits per degree:1
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:1

ACE:

ENGL995
Teaching of Literature
Course details
Credit Hours:1-24
Max credits per semester:24
Max credits per degree:24
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:1-24

ACE:

ENGL997
Independent Directed Reading
Course details
Credit Hours:1-24
Max credits per semester:24
Max credits per degree:24
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:1-24

ACE:

ENGL999
Doctoral Dissertation

Prerequisites: Admission to doctoral degree program and permission of supervisory committee chair

Course details
Credit Hours:1-24
Max credits per semester:24
Max credits per degree:99
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:1-24

ACE: