For Undergraduate English Majors
As an English major, you design your own concentration — a program of study based on your areas of interest, organized around a controlling theme or topic — with the help of your advisor. Below are some recommendations for students interested in this area.
Recommended Courses
- ENGL/WMNS 212: Introduction to LGBTQ Literature
- ENGL/WMNS 215: Introduction to Women’s Lit
- ENGL/WMNS 312: LGBTQ literature and Film
- ENGL/WMNS 315A: Survey of Women’s Lit
- ENGL/WMNS 315B: Women in Pop Culture
- ENGL/WMNS 344B: Black Women Authors
- ENGL/WMNS 345N: Native American Women Writers
- ENGL/WMNS 401K - LGBTQ Drama and Popular Culture
- ENGL/WMNS 414: Women’s Literature
- ENGL/WMNS 414B: Modern & Contemporary Women Writers
- ENGL/WMNS 475A: Rhetorical Theory: Rhetoric of Women Writers
Recommended Experiences
Internships, Volunteering, Publishing, etc.
- No Limits—annual Women's & Gender Studies student-centered conference (UNL, UNO, & UNK)
- Volunteer at the Women's Center
- Volunteer at the LGBTQA Resource Center
- Minor in Women's & Gender Studies
- Minor in LGBTQ/Sexuality Studies
Recommended Reading
Journals, Blogs, Books, etc.
- Allen, Paula Gunn: The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions (1986)
- Anzaldúa, Gloria: Borderlands/La Frontera (1987)
- Beauvoir, Simone de: The Second Sex (1949)
- Clare, Eli: Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation (1999)
- Collins, Patricia Hill: Black Feminist Thought (1990)
- Serrano, Julia: Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity (2007)
- Faderman, Lillian: Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers (1991)
- Hooks, bell: Feminism is for Everybody (2000)
- Harper, Shaun R. and Frank Harris III: College Men and Masculinities (2010)
- Wallstonecraft, Mary: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
- Woolf, Virginia: A Room of One's Own (1929)
- Magazines: Bitch, Bust
- Blogs: Feminist Wire, Crunk Feminist Collective, Autostraddle, Racialicious, Feministing
Career Opportunities
*may require Graduate or Professional School
- College Professor
- Writer/Poet/Novelist
- Business or Public Relations Specialist
- Social Work/Counseling
- Higher Education Administration
- Community Education
- Grant Writer/Nonprofit sector
- Policy Analyst