English (ENGL)

ENGL107
Words on Fire: Seven Books to Light Your World

Minimal writing requirements, designed for first-year students. All texts not originally in English will be taught in translation.

Description: Seven (or more) inspiring and transformative works of literature chosen from a broad range of times and places, from ancient India to modern U.S.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded
Offered:FALL
ACE Outcomes: ACE 5 Humanities

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 5 Humanities

ENGL140
Advanced Academic Writing and Usage

Prerequisites: Permission.

No more than 6 credit hours from ENGL 140, ENGL 141, ENGL 142, ENGL 143, ENGL 144, ENGL 145, and ENGL 146 can be counted toward the degree. Does not satisfy the College of Arts and Sciences Distribution Requirements.

Description: Writing and grammar in academic contexts for international students.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded
Offered:FALL/SPR

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL141
Advanced Academic Reading

Prerequisites: Permission.

Letter grade only. No more than 6 credit hours from ENGL 140, ENGL 141, ENGL 142, ENGL 143, ENGL 144, ENGL 145, and ENGL 146 can be counted toward the degree. Does not satisfy the College of Arts and Sciences Distribution Requirements.

Description: Reading comprehension in academic contexts for international students.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded
Offered:FALL/SPR

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL142
Advanced Academic Listening and Speaking Skills

Prerequisites: Permission.

Letter grade only. No more than 6 credit hours from ENGL 140, ENGL 141, ENGL 142, ENGL 143, ENGL 144, ENGL 145, and ENGL 146 can be counted toward the degree. Does not satisfy the College of Arts and Sciences Distribution Requirements.

Description: Advanced academic listening and speaking skills in academic contexts for international students.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded
Offered:FALL/SPR

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL143
Seminar in Credit English for Academic Purposes

Prerequisites: Permission.

No more than 6 credit hours from ENGL 140, ENGL 141, ENGL 142, ENGL 143, ENGL 144, ENGL 145, and ENGL 146 can be counted toward the degree. Does not satisfy the College of Arts and Sciences Distribution Requirements.

Description: Oral and written English communication skills skills critical for international study and a survey of campus resources

Course details
Credit Hours:1
Max credits per semester:1
Max credits per degree:1
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:1

ACE:

ENGL144
Advanced Academic Reading for Business

Prerequisites: Permission

No more than 6 credit hours from ENGL 140, ENGL 141, ENGL 142, ENGL 143, ENGL 144, ENGL 145, and ENGL 146 can be counted toward the degree. Does not satisfy the College of Arts and Sciences Distribution Requirements.

Description: Reading comprehension in business contexts for non-native speakers of English.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL145
Advanced Academic Reading for Specific Purposes: Science and Engineering

Prerequisites: Permission

No more than 6 credit hours from ENGL 140, ENGL 141, ENGL 142, ENGL 143, ENGL 144, ENGL 145, and ENGL 146 can be counted toward the degree. Does not count toward CAS College Distribution Requirements.

Description: Reading comprehension for science and engineering contexts for non-native speakers of English.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded
Offered:FALL/SPR

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL146
Advanced Academic Reading for Media Literacy

Prerequisites: Permission

No more than 6 credit hours from ENGL 140, ENGL 141, ENGL 142, ENGL 143, ENGL 144, ENGL 145, and ENGL 146 can be counted toward the degree. Does not count toward CAS College Distribution Requirements.

Description: Reading comprehension and media literacy for non-native speakers of English.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL150
Writing and Inquiry

Prerequisites: Open to Freshman and Sophomores only

Description: Study and practice of writing using such rhetorical concepts as purpose, audience, genre, cultural context, and style to develop strategies for writing, thinking, and research.

This course is a prerequisite for: BSAD 220; MNGT 301H; RAIK 288H, BSAD 220H; THEA 331

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 1 Writing

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 1 Writing

ENGL150H
Honors Writing: Writing and Inquiry

Prerequisites: Good standing in the University Honors Program or by invitation and Freshman or Sophomore standing.

Description: Intensive writing. Writing as a tool for inquiry and research. Develop writing projects for multiple purposes and audiences.

This course is a prerequisite for: BSAD 220; MNGT 301H; RAIK 288H, BSAD 220H; THEA 331

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded
ACE Outcomes: ACE 1 Writing

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 1 Writing

ENGL151
Writing for Change

Prerequisites: Open to Freshman and Sophomores only

Description: Intensive writing. Writing as a tool for ongoing learning. Develop writing projects including argument for multiple purposes and audiences.

This course is a prerequisite for: BSAD 220; ECEN 494; ECEN 496; MECH 380; MNGT 301H; RAIK 288H, BSAD 220H; THEA 331

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 1 Writing

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 1 Writing

ENGL151H
Honors Writing: Writing for Change

Prerequisites: Good standing in the University Honors Program or by invitation, and freshman or sophomore standing

Description: Intensive writing. Writing as a tool for inquiry, learning and argument. Develop writing projects for multiple purposes and audiences.

This course is a prerequisite for: BSAD 220; ECEN 494; ECEN 496; MECH 380; MNGT 301H; RAIK 288H, BSAD 220H; THEA 331

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded
ACE Outcomes: ACE 1 Writing

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 1 Writing

ENGL170
Beginning Creative Writing

Description: Introduction to the writing of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Writing, the development of the craft and technique, and analytical reading skills.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 7 Arts

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 7 Arts

ENGL180
Introduction to Literature

Description: General introduction for beginning students to the understanding and appreciation of the principal forms of literature: poetry, drama, and fiction.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 5 Humanities

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 5 Humanities

ENGL186
ESL/Academic Reading Skills

Prerequisites: Permission.

Does not count toward college distribution requirements. No more than 3 hours from ENGL 186, ENGL 187, ENGL 188 can be degree applicable.

Description: ESL reading course to prepare students for comprehending and responding to entry-level university materials

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:6
Grading Option:Graded with Option
Offered:FALL/SPR
Groups:ESL and Linguistics

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL187
ESL/Academic Writing Skills

Prerequisites: Permission

Does not count toward the college distribution requirements. No more than 3 hours from ENGL 186, ENGL 187, ENGL 188 can be degree applicable.

Description: ESL writing course to prepare students for entry into university-level writing courses.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:6
Grading Option:Graded with Option
Offered:FALL/SPR
Groups:ESL and Linguistics

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL188
ESL/Academic Speaking and Listening

Prerequisites: Permission.

Does not count toward the college distribution requirements. No more than 3 hours from ENGL 186, ENGL 187, ENGL 188 can be degree applicable.

Description: ESL speaking and listening course to prepare students for fuller participation in entry-level university courses

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:6
Grading Option:Graded with Option
Offered:FALL/SPR
Groups:ESL and Linguistics

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL189H
University Honors Seminar

Prerequisites: Good standing in the University Honors Program or by invitation.

University Honors Seminar 189H is required of all students in the University Honors Program. Topics vary.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded
ACE Outcomes: ACE 5 Humanities

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 5 Humanities

ENGL200
Introduction to English Studies

Description: The issues, perspectives, and methods of the discipline. The relationships among authors, texts, audiences, and contexts. Practice in imaginative and analytical approaches.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL201
Introduction to Drama

Description: Introduction to the understanding and appreciation of the major dramatic genres-tragedy, comedy, and tragicomedy-in various historical periods.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 5 Humanities

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 5 Humanities

ENGL202
Introduction to Poetry

Description: Introduction to reading poetry. Emphasizes approaches to reading poems, analysis of themes and forms, and enjoyment of poetry as a genre.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 5 Humanities

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 5 Humanities

ENGL205
Twentieth-Century Fiction

Description: Selected readings in the novel and short story, mainly American, British, and European, from 1900 to the present.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 5 Humanities

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 5 Humanities

ENGL206
Science Fiction

Description: Examines the science fiction genre from its origins in the 18th century to its contemporary expression. Issues of technological modernity and how these are mediated through literary texts will be introduced.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 5 Humanities

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 5 Humanities

ENGL207
Reading Popular Literature

Description: Reading and analysis of popular literature within historical, cultural, and literary contexts. May address literature from earlier periods or focus exclusively on contemporary works.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 5 Humanities

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 5 Humanities

ENGL208
Mystery, Gothic, and Detective Fiction

Description: Exploration of the darker side of literature in English from the nineteenth century to the present, surveying the Gothic and mystery tradition through the novel and other narrative forms.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 5 Humanities

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 5 Humanities

ENGL210
Themes in Literature

Description: Introduction to groups of literary works of various types from various periods and countries, studied in the context of a significant issue or concept.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL210I
Illness and Health in Literature

Description: Representations of illness and health as states of the body in a variety of literary texts.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 5 Humanities

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 5 Humanities

ENGL210L
Arthur in Legend and Literature

Description: Introduction to medieval literature and culture via the legends and romances of King Arthur and The Matter of Britain. Translations that were originally in Latin, Welsh, and French as well as English. The questions of ethnicity raised by the idea of an ancient Celtic Britain.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 5 Humanities

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 5 Humanities

ENGL210P
Literature of War and Peace

Description: Literary works written in response to war, conflict, and peace.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 5 Humanities ACE 8 Civic/Ethics/Stewardship

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 5 Humanities ACE 8 Civic/Ethics/Stewardship

ENGL211
Literature of Place

Description: Introduction to writers and literary works associated with a particular place that would typically be defined by geographic factors rather than political boundaries and will vary from course to course, but will regularly include the North American Great Plains.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 5 Humanities

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 5 Humanities

ENGL212
Introduction to LGBTQ LiteratureCrosslisted with WMNS 212

Description: Introduction to variety of works by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender writers. Significant literary, cultural, social, and historical issues and themes.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
Groups:CAS Diversity in the US
ACE Outcomes: ACE 9 Global/Diversity ACE 5 Humanities

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 9 Global/Diversity ACE 5 Humanities

ENGL214
Introduction to African American and African Literary Theory

Description: Examination of novels, essays, and criticisms that offer incisive and influential methods and theories or even maps useful for understanding modern literature of the African Diaspora. Topics include questions of form, identity, audience, culture, movements, and other ideas that have inspired or animated African American and African Literature. Focus will range on post-colonial theory, negritude, double-consciousness, and essentialism, amongst others.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded
Offered:FALL
ACE Outcomes: ACE 9 Global/Diversity

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 9 Global/Diversity

ENGL215
Introduction to Women's LiteratureCrosslisted with WMNS 215

Description: Introduction to English literature written by women, studies in the cultural, social, and/or historical contexts.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 5 Humanities ACE 9 Global/Diversity

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 5 Humanities ACE 9 Global/Diversity

ENGL216
Children's Literature

Description: A study of the historical and cultural development of the genre of children's literature.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 5 Humanities

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 5 Humanities

ENGL217
Introduction to Young Adult Literature

Description: A study of the historical and cultural development of the genre of young adult (YA) literature.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded
Offered:FALL
ACE Outcomes: ACE 5 Humanities

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 5 Humanities

ENGL218
Literature and Psychology

Description: Examination of important vectors within the relationship between field of psychology and literary writing. Topics include literature and the pre-history of psychology, the place of psychology in literary theory, and recent trends in which literature addresses individual, collective, and generational trauma.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 5 Humanities

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 5 Humanities

ENGL230
British Literature: Anglo-Saxons through Enlightenment

Description: Major British writers from Beowulf to the end of the eighteenth century. Attention given to historical background.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 5 Humanities

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 5 Humanities

ENGL230A
Shakespeare

Description: Introductory study of a representative sample of Shakespeare's works. Some films of dramatic performances may be shown.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 5 Humanities

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 5 Humanities

ENGL231
British Literature: Romantics Through Modernists

Description: Major works by British authors of the Romantic and Victorian periods and of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 5 Humanities

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 5 Humanities

ENGL231H
Honors: British Literature: Romantics Through Modernists

Prerequisites: Good standing in the University Honors program, or by invitation

Description: Intensive study of major works by British authors of the Romantic and Victorian periods and of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded
ACE Outcomes: ACE 5 Humanities

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 5 Humanities

ENGL240A
The World of Classical GreeceCrosslisted with CLAS 281

Description: English translations of the great works of Greek literature which familiarize the student with the uniquely rich and influential world of Classical Greece.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 5 Humanities

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 5 Humanities

ENGL240B
The World of Classical RomeCrosslisted with CLAS 282

Description: English translations of the great works of Latin literature, which familiarize the student with the uniquely rich and influential world of Classical Rome.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 5 Humanities

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 5 Humanities

ENGL242
Global Literatures since 1850Crosslisted with GLST 242

Description: A survey of literatures written since 1850 from around the globe in historical and cultural contexts.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 9 Global/Diversity ACE 5 Humanities

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 9 Global/Diversity ACE 5 Humanities

ENGL244
African American Literature since 1865Crosslisted with ETHN 244

Description: Representative African American works written since 1865, of various genres, studied in their social and historical contexts.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 5 Humanities ACE 9 Global/Diversity

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 5 Humanities ACE 9 Global/Diversity

ENGL244A
Introduction to African LiteratureCrosslisted with ETHN 244A

Description: Representative literary works by African writers, mainly in the English language, but with a sampling of works translated from other languages, from the twentieth century, and presented in their social, historical and social contexts.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 5 Humanities ACE 9 Global/Diversity

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 5 Humanities ACE 9 Global/Diversity

ENGL244E
African American Literature before 1865Crosslisted with ETHN 244E

Description: Representative early African American works of various genres, studied in their social and historical contexts, from the oral tradition to the Civil War.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 5 Humanities

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 5 Humanities

ENGL245A
Introduction to Asian American LiteratureCrosslisted with ETHN 245A

Description: Introduction to Asian American literature and relevant historical and cultural background.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 5 Humanities ACE 9 Global/Diversity

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 5 Humanities ACE 9 Global/Diversity

ENGL245J
Jewish-American LiteratureCrosslisted with JUDS 245J

Description: Twentieth and twenty-first century literature by major Jewish-American authors.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 5 Humanities ACE 9 Global/Diversity

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 5 Humanities ACE 9 Global/Diversity

ENGL245N
Introduction to Native American LiteratureCrosslisted with ETHN 245N

Description: Introduction to literature by Native Americans covering early and recent periods.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
Groups:CAS Diversity in the US
ACE Outcomes: ACE 9 Global/Diversity ACE 5 Humanities

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 9 Global/Diversity ACE 5 Humanities

ENGL251
Introduction to Creative Nonfiction Writing

Description: Reading and analysis of published creative nonfiction writing and practice researching and writing creative nonfiction.

This course is a prerequisite for: ENGL 451; ENGL 454

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 7 Arts

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 7 Arts

ENGL252
Introduction to Fiction Writing

Description: Introduction to the writing of fiction. Writing, analysis of craft, technique, and reading skills.

This course is a prerequisite for: ENGL 352; ENGL 454

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 7 Arts

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 7 Arts

ENGL253
Introduction to Poetry Writing

Description: Introduction to the writing of poetry. Emphasis on student writing within a context of theory and criticism.

This course is a prerequisite for: ENGL 353; ENGL 454

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 7 Arts

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 7 Arts

ENGL254
Writing and Communities

Description: Extended writing and its uses in and by various communities.

This course is a prerequisite for: BSAD 220; ENGL 454; MNGT 301H

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 1 Writing

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 1 Writing

ENGL254H
Honors: Writing and Communities

Description: Extended writing and its uses in and by various communities.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 1 Writing

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 1 Writing

ENGL260
American Literature before 1865

Description: Major authors, themes, and intellectual trends in American literature from the beginnings to 1865. Works from the Colonial, Early National, and Romantic periods.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 5 Humanities

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 5 Humanities

ENGL261
American Literature since 1865

Description: Major authors, themes, and intellectual trends in American literature from 1865 to the present. Works from the Realist, Modernist, and Contemporary periods.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 5 Humanities

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 5 Humanities

ENGL270
Literary Criticism and Theory

Description: Nature and function of literary/critical theory in the study of literary texts. Selected approaches and is not intended as a general survey.

This course is a prerequisite for: ENGL 471

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 5 Humanities

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 5 Humanities

ENGL275
Introduction to Rhetorical Theory

Description: Nature and function of rhetorical theory as applied to English Studies. Selected important ancient and modern rhetorical theories and is not intended as a general historical survey.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 5 Humanities ACE 8 Civic/Ethics/Stewardship

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 5 Humanities ACE 8 Civic/Ethics/Stewardship

ENGL276
Interactive Narrative and Game Design

Description: The design and development of works of interactive fiction and other types of digital narrative.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
Offered:FALL
ACE Outcomes: ACE 7 Arts

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 7 Arts

ENGL277
Being Human in a Digital AgeCrosslisted with HIST 277

Description: Introduction to some of the major implications of computer technologies to the humanities; examination of the historical influence of new technologies on how we think of ourselves, both individually and collectively; how we interact socially and politically; how we determine public and private spaces in an increasingly connected world; and how we can use computer technologies to produce, preserve, and study cultural materials.

This course is a prerequisite for: ENGL 375; ENGL 378, HIST 378; ENGL 379

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 5 Humanities

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 5 Humanities

ENGL278
Introduction to Digital HumanitiesCrosslisted with ANTH 278, CLAS 278, HIST 278, MODL 278

Requires contributing to an ongoing web-based project.

Description: Practical and theoretical introduction to the concepts, tools, and techniques of digital humanities. Electronic research, text encoding, text processing, and collaborative research.

This course is a prerequisite for: ENGL 375; ENGL 378, HIST 378; ENGL 379

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 5 Humanities

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 5 Humanities

ENGL279
Digital Literary Analysis

Prerequisites: Sophomore standing or higher

Description: Introduction to computational text analysis with an emphasis on text processing for literary topics. Write computer algorithms for text analysis and exploration while developing a broad understanding of data structures and current trends in natural language processing, information retrieval, text mining, and statistical machine learning.

This course is a prerequisite for: ENGL 375; ENGL 378, HIST 378; ENGL 379

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 3 Math/Stat/Reasoning

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 3 Math/Stat/Reasoning

ENGL292
Special Topics in English

Description: Topics vary.

Course details
Credit Hours:1-3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:1-3

ACE:

ENGL296
Independent Study in English

Prerequisites: Permission.

Description: Directed reading.

Course details
Credit Hours:1-3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:6
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:1-3

ACE:

ENGL300
Professional Practices for English Majors

Description: Focus on the individual, national, and global value of English and the humanities for the professions and for life. Emphasis will be placed on meaningful career paths, gaining relevant experience, and professional development opportunities.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL301B
Twentieth-Century Drama

Description: Major playwrights and dramatic movements, such as realism, naturalism, expressionism, "epic theater," and theater of the absurd, from Ibsen to the present.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 5 Humanities

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 5 Humanities

ENGL302
Modernist Poetry

Description: Introductory survey of major authors and movements in English-language poetry during the modernist period of the early twentieth century.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL302A
Poetry since 1945

Description: Major authors, themes, and trends in poetry from 1945 through the end of the 20th Century. Works from the Beat, Confessional, New York School, San Francisco Renaissance, Black Arts, Feminist, Language, New Formalist, and other 'schools' of poetry.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 5 Humanities

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 5 Humanities

ENGL302B
Contemporary Poetry

Description: Major authors, themes, and intellectual trends in contemporary poetry.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL303
Short Story

Description: Introduction to the historical context, criticism, and interpretation of short stories.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 5 Humanities

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 5 Humanities

ENGL305A
The Birth of the Novel

Description: Readings in the British novel from its beginning to 1900. Examples: works by Defoe, Fielding, Austen, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 5 Humanities

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 5 Humanities

ENGL311
Revolution and Romanticism

Description: Romantic movement in literature and its relation to political and economic revolutions in England, France, and America. Course not taught every year.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 5 Humanities

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 5 Humanities

ENGL312
LGBTQ Literature and FilmCrosslisted with WMNS 312

Description: Analysis of a variety of works by lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, and transgender writers and filmmakers. Significant literary, cultural, social, and historical issues and themes.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
Groups:CAS Diversity in the US
ACE Outcomes: ACE 5 Humanities ACE 9 Global/Diversity

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 5 Humanities ACE 9 Global/Diversity

ENGL315A
Survey of Women's LiteratureCrosslisted with WMNS 315A

May not be offered every year.

Description: Historical survey of women's writings in English.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL315B
Women in Popular CultureCrosslisted with WMNS 315B

Description: Relation between women's roles and popular images in the media, including romances, television shows, science fiction, and magazines, with attention to their historical development.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 9 Global/Diversity

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 9 Global/Diversity

ENGL317
Literature and the Environment

Description: Various issues, trends, and traditions concerning the literary representation of the natural environment.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 5 Humanities

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 5 Humanities

ENGL330
British Authors to 1800

Description: The works of an author or small group of authors, usually in historical and biographical context.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL330A
Shakespeare on Screen

Description: Strategies employed in adapting the plays of William Shakespeare for film and video. Integration of critical approaches from the perspectives of cultural studies, film, literature, and theatre.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 5 Humanities

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 5 Humanities

ENGL330E
Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton

Description: Three major figures of English literature: Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, and John Milton. How changes in society and in the media of production (oral presentation, manuscripts, public and private stages, and print) affected each writer's sense of his audience and his craft. These writers in relation to each other: their common themes, shared sources, and awareness of - and challenges to - literary predecessors.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL331
British Authors Since 1800

Description: The works of an author or small group of authors, usually in historical and biographical context.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 5 Humanities

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 5 Humanities

ENGL332
American Authors to 1900

Description: Intensive study of the works of an author or small group of authors, usually in historical and biographical context.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL333
American Authors Since 1900

Description: The works of an author or small group of authors, usually in historical and biographical context.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL333A
Willa Cather and Her World

Description: Cather's work as an entry into the humanities, multiple texts, and their contexts. Interdisciplinary approach.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 5 Humanities

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 5 Humanities

ENGL334
American Literary Traditions

Description: American literary traditions or movements through multiple genres from a variety of theoretical, socio-historical, and cultural approaches.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL340
Classical Roots of English LiteratureCrosslisted with CLAS 340

Description: Greek and Roman literary works emphasizing their influence on English and American literature.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 5 Humanities

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 5 Humanities

ENGL341
The Bible as Literature

Description: Introduction to the literary analysis of the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures with emphasis on their influence on British and American literature.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL342
The QuranCrosslisted with RELG 342

Description: Examination of the Quran, the scripture of Islam.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL344B
Black Women AuthorsCrosslisted with ETHN 344B, WMNS 344B

Description: Representative works by Black women, composed in various genres, studied in their social and historical contexts. May not be offered every year.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL344D
Caribbean LiteratureCrosslisted with ETHN 344D

Description: History and multi-generic variety of Caribbean literature written in English.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 9 Global/Diversity ACE 5 Humanities

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 9 Global/Diversity ACE 5 Humanities

ENGL345D
Chicana and/or Chicano LiteratureCrosslisted with ETHN 345D

Description: Introduction to literature by and about Mexican-Americans in its cultural and historical context.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
Offered:FALL
Groups:CAS Diversity in the US
ACE Outcomes: ACE 5 Humanities ACE 9 Global/Diversity

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 5 Humanities ACE 9 Global/Diversity

ENGL345N
Native American Women WritersCrosslisted with WMNS 345N, ETHN 345N

Description: Representative writings by Native American women in their social and historical contexts.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
Offered:SPRING
Groups:CAS Diversity in the US
ACE Outcomes: ACE 5 Humanities ACE 9 Global/Diversity

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 5 Humanities ACE 9 Global/Diversity

ENGL346
Cuban-American LiteratureCrosslisted with ETHN 346

Description: An analysis of a variety of works authored by Cuban-Americans in their historical, cultural, and literary contexts.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
Groups:CAS Diversity in the US
ACE Outcomes: ACE 9 Global/Diversity ACE 5 Humanities

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 9 Global/Diversity ACE 5 Humanities

ENGL347
Humanities on the Plains

Description: Literature of the Plains in its cultural contexts, both in relation to the arts and humanities, and to religion, anthropology, history, and geography.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL352
Intermediate Fiction Writing

Prerequisites: ENGL 252

Description: Study and practice of the writing of fiction for intermediate students with previous fiction writing experience.

This course is a prerequisite for: ENGL 452; ENGL 454

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 7 Arts

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 7 Arts

ENGL353
Intermediate Poetry Writing

Prerequisites: ENGL 253

Description: Study and practice of the writing of poetry for intermediate students with previous poetry writing experience.

This course is a prerequisite for: ENGL 453; ENGL 454

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL354
Writing: Uses of Literacy

Prerequisites: Sophomore, Junior, or Senior standing.

Description: Extended practice in writing through the study of literacy--situating students' own literacy histories, exploring larger public debates about literacy, and researching the relationships between language, power, identity, and authority.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 1 Writing

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 1 Writing

ENGL355
Editing and the Publishing Industry

Description: Instruction on the theory and practice of creative and scholarly editing and publishing in both print and digital formats.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
Experiential Learning:Creative Activity

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL357
Composition Theory and Practice

Prerequisites: Admission to Teacher Education Program in the College of Education and Human Sciences.

Description: Recent research on literacy development and writing processes. Extended reflection and some application of theory to students' experiences with writing instruction and their own goals as K-12 teachers.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
Experiential Learning:Student Teaching/Education Practicum

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL362
Introduction to Medieval Literature

Description: Major English works, in the original language and in translation, from Beowulf to the late Middle Ages, with a focus on Chaucer.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL363
Introduction to Renaissance Literature

Description: Representative works in various genres written in England during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries which reflect major themes and intellectual trends of the Renaissance period.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL364
Introduction to Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature

Description: Major English writers-such as Dryden, Pope, Swift, Johnson-seen in the literary, historical, and intellectual context of the period 1660-1800.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 5 Humanities

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 5 Humanities

ENGL365
Introduction to Nineteenth-Century British Literature

Description: Poetry and prose of the principal British authors of the Romantic and Victorian periods.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 5 Humanities

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 5 Humanities

ENGL375
Literary Studies in the Digital Age

Prerequisites: One of the following courses: ENGL 277, ENGL 278, or ENGL 279

Description: Provides an opportunity to study a literary subject in a digitally inflected environment, a space in which the methods and approaches to the material are informed and enriched by digital media and computational techniques. Topics will vary, but would include such areas as Victorian literature, African-American literature, modern poetry.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL376
Rhetoric: Argument and Society

Description: Study of rhetoric as it functions in social and political contexts.

This course is a prerequisite for: ENGL 454

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
Groups:CAS Diversity in the US
ACE Outcomes: ACE 8 Civic/Ethics/Stewardship ACE 9 Global/Diversity

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 8 Civic/Ethics/Stewardship ACE 9 Global/Diversity

ENGL377
Reading Theory and Practice

Prerequisites: Admission to Teacher Education Program in the College of Education and Human Sciences.

Description: Recent research on literacy development and reading processes. Extended reflection and some application of theory to students' experiences with reading instruction and their own goals as K-12 teachers.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
Experiential Learning:Student Teaching/Education Practicum

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL378
Theorizing the DigitalCrosslisted with HIST 378

Prerequisites: ENGL 277, ENGL 278, or ENGL 279

Description: Digital Humanities and other technologies within cultural, historical, and philosophical contexts.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL379
Reading Technologies from Antiquity to the Digital Age

Prerequisites: One of the following courses: ENGL 277, ENGL 278, or ENGL 279

Description: Surveys the development of reading technologies through the ages including the emergence of reading and writing in the ancient world, the proliferation of the book in the middle ages, the cultural shifts caused by the invention of movable type, and the ways in which contemporary technologies are shaping literacy practices and the future of the book.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL380
Writing Center Theory, Practice, and Research

Strongly recommended for students seeking to work in the UNL Writing Center.

Description: Introduction to writing center theory and consulting practice. Students engage in research that contributes to scholarly conversations in writing center studies.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
Groups:CAS Diversity in the US
Experiential Learning:Research

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL381
Ancient NovelCrosslisted with CLAS 381

Prerequisites: Junior standing.

Description: English translation of the Greek and Roman novel.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL386
Shakespeare's Dramatic ArtsCrosslisted with THEA 386

Prerequisites: Students must be enrolled in the Nebraska at Oxford study abroad program

Lecturers and tutors for the two courses are from Oxford University faculty and staff. Field trips and cultural excursions will supplement the course lectures and tutorials.

Description: Shakespeare and the well-known literature of England since the Middle Ages.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL387
The Environment and the French-Speaking WorldCrosslisted with FREN 387, GLST 387

Taught in English.

Description: An examination of environmental engagement in the novels, short stories, poetry, films, and music of the French-speaking world.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL388
Body Language: Love, Politics, and the Self in French LiteratureCrosslisted with FREN 388, MRST 388, WMNS 388

Taught in English.

Description: French texts from the sixteenth to twentieth centuries (drama, prose, poetry, autobiography), all of which use the body as a reference point to explore developments in gender, religion, science, and society in French literature and civilization.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL391
Learning Abroad

Description: Faculty-led study abroad course. Topics and locations of travel will vary.

Course details
Credit Hours:1-6
Max credits per semester:6
Max credits per degree:6
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:1-6

ACE:

ENGL392
Special Topics in English

Description: Topics vary.

Course details
Credit Hours:1-3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:6
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:1-3

ACE:

ENGL396
Independent Study in English

Prerequisites: Permission.

Description: Directed reading.

Course details
Credit Hours:1-3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:6
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:1-3

ACE:

ENGL399
Undergraduate Thesis

Prerequisites: Permission.

Description: Independent research leading to a thesis.

Course details
Credit Hours:1-3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:6
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:1-3

ACE:

ENGL399H
Honors Undergraduate Thesis

Prerequisites: Permission.

Description: Independent research leading to a thesis.

Course details
Credit Hours:1-3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:6
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:1-3

ACE:

ENGL401
DramaCrosslisted with ENGL 801

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:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL401K
LGBTQ Drama and Popular CultureCrosslisted with ENGL 801K, 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:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL402
PoetryCrosslisted with ENGL 802

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:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL403
American Short StoryCrosslisted with ENGL 803

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:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL405
FictionCrosslisted with ENGL 805

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:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL405A
19th Century British NovelCrosslisted with ENGL 805A

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:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL405E
Modern FictionCrosslisted with ENGL 805E

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:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL405N
American Novel IICrosslisted with ENGL 805N

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:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL406
GenreCrosslisted with ENGL 806

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:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL410
Studies in Literary MovementsCrosslisted with ENGL 810

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:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL411
Plains LiteratureCrosslisted with ENGL 811

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:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL414
Women's LiteratureCrosslisted with ENGL 814, 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:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL417
Topics in Place Studies and Environmental HumanitiesCrosslisted with ENGL 817

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:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL430
British Authors to 1800Crosslisted with ENGL 830

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:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL430A
Shakespeare ICrosslisted with ENGL 830A

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:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL432
American Authors to 1900Crosslisted with ENGL 832

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:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL433
American Authors Since 1900Crosslisted with ENGL 833

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:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL440
Classical DramaCrosslisted with CLAS 483, CLAS 883, ENGL 840

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:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL445
Ethnic LiteratureCrosslisted with ENGL 845, 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:Graded with Option
Groups:CAS Diversity in the US

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL445B
Topics in African American LiteratureCrosslisted with ENGL 845B, 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:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL445K
Topics in African LiteratureCrosslisted with ENGL 845K, 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:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL445N
Topics in Native American LiteratureCrosslisted with ENGL 845N, 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:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL451
Advanced Writing of Creative Nonfiction

Prerequisites: ENGL 251

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

This course is a prerequisite for: ENGL 454

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL452
Advanced Fiction Writing

Prerequisites: ENGL 352

Description: For advanced students with previous experience in fiction writing. Longer projects in fiction writing.

This course is a prerequisite for: ENGL 454

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL453
Advanced Poetry Writing

Prerequisites: ENGL 353

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

This course is a prerequisite for: ENGL 454

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL454
Advanced Writing Projects

Prerequisites: Junior or Senior standing and one of the following courses: ENGL 251, ENGL 252, ENGL 253, ENGL 254, ENGL 352, ENGL 353, ENGL 354, ENGL 376, ENGL 451, ENGL 452, or ENGL 453.

Description: Advanced writing workshop in which experienced writers develop extended projects in writing, analyze their own and other's 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:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL462
Survey of Medieval LiteratureCrosslisted with ENGL 862

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:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL462A
Ideas of Ethnicity in Medieval and Renaissance LiteratureCrosslisted with ENGL 862A

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:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL463
Survey of Renaissance LiteratureCrosslisted with ENGL 863

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:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL464
British Literature, 1660-1800Crosslisted with ENGL 864

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:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL465
Nineteenth-Century British LiteratureCrosslisted with ENGL 865

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:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL467
Literary HistoryCrosslisted with ENGL 867

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:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL471
Advanced Theory

Prerequisites: Junior standing; ENGL 270, FILM 373, or equivalent

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:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL472
Digital Humanities PracticumCrosslisted with ENGL 872, 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:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL475
RhetoricCrosslisted with ENGL 875

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:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL475A
Rhetorical Theory: Rhetoric of Women WritersCrosslisted with ENGL 875A, 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:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL477
Advanced Topics in Digital HumanitiesCrosslisted with ENGL 877

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:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL478
Digital Archives and EditionsCrosslisted with ENGL 878

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:Graded with Option
Experiential Learning:Research

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL482
Literacy Issues and CommunityCrosslisted with ENGL 882

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:Graded with Option
Experiential Learning:Community Engagement

Credit Hours:3-6

ACE:

ENGL487
English Capstone Experience

Prerequisites: Senior standing; English and Film Studies majors only

Description: Integration and application of skills and knowledge gained in courses taken for the English major. Involves synthesis, reflection, and a substantive final writing project.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 10 Integrated Product

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 10 Integrated Product

ENGL489
Medieval Literature and TheologyCrosslisted with ENGL 889

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:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

ENGL492
Special Topics in EnglishCrosslisted with ENGL 892

Prerequisites: Senior standing.

Description: Topics vary.

Course details
Credit Hours:1-3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:6
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:1-3

ACE:

ENGL495
Internship in English

Prerequisites: Permission.

Course details
Credit Hours:1-6
Max credits per semester:6
Max credits per degree:6
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:1-6

ACE:

ENGL496
Independent Study in English

Prerequisites: Permission.

Description: Directed reading.

Course details
Credit Hours:1-3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:6
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:1-3

ACE: