Courses | Department of English

English majors do not really take classes; we take experiences.Wendy RogersUNL English major

Student reading Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl in one of Kwakiutl Dreher's classes

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 & Descriptions
	Course Schedules	Undergraduate Course Descriptions	Graduate Course Descriptions
Spring 2019	Spring 2019 Schedule	Spring 2019 Undergraduate Booklet	Spring 2019 Graduate Booklet
Summer 2019	Summer 2019 Schedule	Summer 2019 Undergraduate Booklet	–
Fall 2019	Fall 2019 Schedule	Fall 2019 Undergraduate Booklet	Fall 2019 Graduate Booklet
Spring 2020	Spring 2020 Schedule	Spring 2020 Undergraduate Booklet	Spring 2020 Graduate Booklet

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The world is not 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.

Mission Excellence in teaching

Spring 2020 Projected Graduate Courses

ENGL 4/814: Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing

Melissa J. Homestead

ENGL 4/845N: Topics in Native American Literature

Tom Gannon

ENGL 853: Writing of Poetry Workshop

Hope Wabuke

ENGL 857A: Composition and Rhetorical Theory

Debbie Minter

ENGL 4/877: Advanced Topics in DH

Amanda Gailey

ENGL 4/882: Literacy Issues and Communities

Rachael W. Shah

ENGL 915: Stuck in a Global Crisis: The Individual & The World in Fiction & Memoir

Amelia María de la Luz Montes

ENGL 918: Literature and Embodiment

Peter J. Capuano

ENGL 930: Global Shakespeares

Stephen Buhler

ENGL 953: Fiction Workshop

Jonis Agee

ENGL 971: Seminar in Literary Theory

Marco Abel

One Credit/Low Enrollment Courses

ENGL 893: From Comps to Dissertation

Stacey Waite

ENGL 895: Internship: Writing Center

Rachel Azima

ENGL 993: Placement

TBD

Fall 2020 Projected Graduate Courses

ENGL 3/880: Writing Theory and Practice

Rachel Azima

ENGL 4/802: Renaissance Lyric Poetry

Julia Schleck

ENGL 4/877: Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities

Adrian S. Wisnicki

ENGL 871: Literary Theory

Roland Végső

ENGL 914: Literary Women in New York City, 1910 to 1940: Willa Cather and Others

Melissa Homestead

ENGL 919: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Nineteenth Century Studies

Stephen Behrendt and Ken Winkle

ENGL 953: Seminar in Creative Writing: Poetry Workshop

Kwame Dawes

ENGL 953: Seminar in Creative Writing: Fiction

Chigozie Obioma

ENGL 957: Composition Theory and Practice

Stacey Waite

ENGL 961: Seminar in American Literature: Roots of American Intellectual History

Matt Cohen

ENGL 965: 19th Century British Literature: Children’s Lit

Laura White

ENGL 973: Seminar in Literacy: Civic Literacies

Rachael Shah

One Credit/Low Enrollment Courses

ENGL 890: Advanced Research Skills

Liz Lorang

ENGL 953: Seminar in Creative Writing: Poetry

Ted Kooser

Spring 2021 Projected Graduate Courses

ENGL 4/803: American Short Story

Guy Reynolds

ENGL 4/811: Great Plains Literature

Tom Lynch

ENGL 857A: History/Theory Comp/Rhet: Engaging Diverse Writers

Debbie Minter

ENGL 4/865: 19th Century British Literature

Peter J. Capuano

ENGL 4/878: Archives and Editions

Kenneth M. Price

ENGL 898: Special Topics: Queer Theory

Gabrielle Owen

ENGL 918: Seminar in Nineteenth Century Studies: Queering the Nineteenth Century

Melissa Homestead

ENGL 945: Seminar in American Literature: U.S. Latina Literature and Theory

Amelia María de la Luz Montes

ENGL 953: Seminar in Creative Writing: Non-Fiction

Joy Castro

ENGL 953: Seminar in Creative Writing: Poetry

Grace Bauer

ENGL 953: Seminar in Creative Writing: Fiction

Timothy Schaffert

ENGL 971: Literary Theory

Roland Végső

ENGL 976: Rhetorical Theory: Rhetorics of Creative and Critical Writing

Stacey Waite

One Credit/Low Enrollment Courses

ENGL 893: From Comps to Dissertation

TBD

ENGL 993: Placement

TBD

ENGL 895: Internship: Writing Center

Rachel Azima

The world is not just “out there.”

Spring 2020 Projected Graduate Courses

ENGL 4/814: Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing

ENGL 4/845N: Topics in Native American Literature

ENGL 853: Writing of Poetry Workshop

ENGL 857A: Composition and Rhetorical Theory

ENGL 4/877: Advanced Topics in DH

ENGL 4/882: Literacy Issues and Communities

ENGL 915: Stuck in a Global Crisis: The Individual & The World in Fiction & Memoir

ENGL 918: Literature and Embodiment

ENGL 930: Global Shakespeares

ENGL 953: Fiction Workshop

ENGL 971: Seminar in Literary Theory

One Credit/Low Enrollment Courses

ENGL 893: From Comps to Dissertation

ENGL 895: Internship: Writing Center

ENGL 993: Placement

Fall 2020 Projected Graduate Courses

ENGL 3/880: Writing Theory and Practice

ENGL 4/802: Renaissance Lyric Poetry

ENGL 4/877: Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities

ENGL 871: Literary Theory

ENGL 914: Literary Women in New York City, 1910 to 1940: Willa Cather and Others

ENGL 919: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Nineteenth Century Studies

ENGL 953: Seminar in Creative Writing: Poetry Workshop

ENGL 953: Seminar in Creative Writing: Fiction

ENGL 957: Composition Theory and Practice

ENGL 961: Seminar in American Literature: Roots of American Intellectual History

ENGL 965: 19th Century British Literature: Children’s Lit

ENGL 973: Seminar in Literacy: Civic Literacies

One Credit/Low Enrollment Courses

ENGL 890: Advanced Research Skills

ENGL 953: Seminar in Creative Writing: Poetry

Spring 2021 Projected Graduate Courses

ENGL 4/803: American Short Story

ENGL 4/811: Great Plains Literature

ENGL 857A: History/Theory Comp/Rhet: Engaging Diverse Writers

ENGL 4/865: 19th Century British Literature

ENGL 4/878: Archives and Editions

ENGL 898: Special Topics: Queer Theory

ENGL 918: Seminar in Nineteenth Century Studies: Queering the Nineteenth Century

ENGL 945: Seminar in American Literature: U.S. Latina Literature and Theory

ENGL 953: Seminar in Creative Writing: Non-Fiction

ENGL 953: Seminar in Creative Writing: Poetry

ENGL 953: Seminar in Creative Writing: Fiction

ENGL 971: Literary Theory

ENGL 976: Rhetorical Theory: Rhetorics of Creative and Critical Writing

One Credit/Low Enrollment Courses

ENGL 893: From Comps to Dissertation

ENGL 993: Placement

ENGL 895: Internship: Writing Center

The world is not just
“out there.”