English majors do not really take classes; we take experiences.
Most of our classes are run as small, intimate, discussion-based seminars, not large anonymous lectures. In English classes, your ideas are valued, your opinions matter. Your professor will know your name. And the experiences you undertake will be more varied than you may have imagined:
Walt Whitman · Film History · African poetry · Shakespeare · Chicano/a literature · Science fiction · Willa Cather · LGBTQ Literature and Queer Theory · Digital humanities · Native American literature · Poetry writing · Rhetorical analysis · Fiction writing · Film Criticism · Publishing and Editing · Nature writing and ecology · Sherman Alexie · Children's literature · Creative nonfiction · The Harlem Renaissance · Great Plains studies · Jane Austen · Slam poetry · German cinema · Women's and gender studies · Modern drama · Film theory
You can download a schedule and course description booklet for this semester's courses below. For a complete list of English undergraduate courses offered at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, refer to the university's Undergraduate Catalog.
| Course Schedules | Undergraduate Course Descriptions | Graduate Course Descriptions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2023 | Fall 2023 Schedule | Fall 2023 Undergraduate Booklet | Fall 2023 Graduate Booklet |
| Spring 2024 | Spring 2024 Schedule | Spring 2024 Undergraduate Booklet | Spring 2024 Graduate Booklet |
| Summer 2023 | Summer 2023 Schedule | Summer 2023 Combined Booklet | Summer 2023 Combined Booklet |
| Fall 2023 | Fall 2023 Schedule | Fall 2023 Undergraduate Booklet | Fall 2023 Graduate Booklet |
The world isn’t just “out there.”
It's right here in Lincoln, Nebraska.
In the Department of English, we engage critically with a wide variety of experiences through imaginative reasoning—the ability to use the imagination to think hypothetically about the world in all its diversity—connecting the past, present, and future, the local and the global.
Summer 2023 Projected Graduate Courses
ENGL 4/895: Young Writers Camp Internship
Stacey Waite
FILM 4/839: Film Directors
Marco Abel
ENGL 854: Advanced Writing Projects
Stacey Waite
ENGL 953: Writing of Non-Fiction
Joy Castro
ENGL 957B: Nebraska Writing Project
Rachael Shah and Lauren Gatti
ENGL 992: Nebraska Humanities Project
Shari Stenberg
Fall 2023 Projected Graduate Courses
ENGL 3/880: Writing Center Theory and Practice
Rachel Azima
ENGL 4/802 Renaissance Lyric Poetry & Rhetoric
Julia Schleck
ENGL 4/810: Fictions of Deep Time
Guy Reynolds
ENGL 4/845K: Literatures of the African Continent
Ng’ang’a Mũchiri
ENGL 4/878 Archives and Editions
TBD
ENGL 852: Fiction Writing
TBD
ENGL 871: Literary Theory
Marco Abel
ENGL 892: Queer Childhood Studies
Brie Owen
ENGL 919: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the 19th Century
TBD
ENGL 957: Composition Theory and Practice
TBD
ENGL 953: Seminar in Creative Writing, Poetry
Hope Wabuke
ENGL 965 The Survival of the Book
Steve Behrendt
One-Credit/Low Enrollment Courses
ENGL 890: Advanced Research Skills
Liz Lorang
Spring 2024 Projected Graduate Courses
ENGL 4/802 American Poetry and Social Change
Ken Price
ENGL 4/830A: Shakespeare I
Stephen Buhler
ENGL 4/865 19th Century British Literature
Laura White
ENGL 4/877: Advanced Topics in DH
Steve Ramsay
ENGL 853: Writing of Poetry
Kwame Dawes
ENGL 875: Rhetoric
Mavis Beckson
ENGL 892: Literature and Psychology
TBD
ENGL 914: Women in Print: Women's Authorship from the 17th–19th Century
Melissa Homestead
ENGL 918: Literature and Embodiment
Pete Capuano
ENGL 953 Seminar in Creative Writing Fiction
Timothy Schaffert
One-Credit/Low Enrollment Courses
ENGL 893: Comps to Dissertation
Stacey Waite
ENGL 993: Placement
Brie Owen
ENGL 895: Writing Center Internship
Rachel Azima
Fall 2024 Projected Graduate Courses
ENGL 3/880: Writing Center Theory and Practice
Rachel Azima
ENGL 4/801K: LGBTQ Drama and Popular Culture
Timothy Schaffert
ENGL 4/810: Speculative Fiction: Stories of Imagined Pasts
Guy Reynolds
ENGL 4/802: Romantic Poetry
Stephen Behrendt
ENGL 4/845K: "Water Got No Enemies." H2O Aesthetics in Pan-African Literary & Visual Cultures
Ng'ang'a Wahu-Mũchiri
ENGL 4/878: Archives and Editions
TBD
ENGL 852: Writing Fiction
Chigozie Obioma
ENGL 892: The University in American Society: History, Labor, & Academic Freedom
Julia Schleck
ENGL 914: Seminar in Women Writers
Melissa Homestead
ENGL 871: Literary Theory
TBD
ENGL 953: Seminar in Creative Writing, Poetry
Kwame Dawes
ENGL 957: Comp Theory & Practice
TBD
ENGL 976: Queer Rhetorics/Queer Pedagogies
Stacey Waite
One-Credit/Low Enrollment Courses
ENGL 890: Advanced Research Skills
TBD
Spring 2025 Projected Graduate Courses
ENGL 4/865: The Victorian Novel
Peter Capuano
ENGL 4/877: Advanced Topics in DH
TBD
Hope Wabuke
ENGL 953: Seminar in Creative Writing Fiction
Timothy Schaffert
ENGL 971: Aesthetics and Politics
Matt Cohen
ENGL 932: American Authors <1900. Black Vistas: Race, Reconstruction, and Redemption
Ken Price
ENGL 918: Resistance & Representation in Nineteeth-Century Global Voices
Adrian Wisnicki
ENGL 995: Teaching Literature: The Teaching of Fiction as Literature
Laura White
ENGL 875A: Rhetoric of Women Writers
Shari Stenberg
ENGL 973: Collaborative Writing Pedagogy
Rachael Shah
One-Credit/Low Enrollment Courses
ENGL 893: Comps to Dissertation
Anne Nagel
ENGL 993: Placement
TBD
ENGL 895: Writing Center Internship
Rachel Azima