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 2022 | Fall 2022 Schedule | Fall 2022 Undergraduate Booklet | Fall 2022 Graduate Booklet |
| Spring 2023 | Spring 2023 Schedule | Spring 2023 Undergraduate Booklet | Spring 2023 Graduate Booklet |
| Summer 2023 | Summer 2023 Schedule | Summer 2023 Undergraduate Booklet | Summer 2023 Graduate 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
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
Roland Végső
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 915: Popular Literature: Illness
Amelia Montes
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 4/810: Conceptual & Experimental Fiction
Chigozie Obioma
ENGL 4/865 19th Century British Literature
Laura White
ENGL 4/875A: Rhetoric of Women Writers
Shari Stenberg
ENGL 4/877: Advanced Topics in DH
Steve Ramsay
ENGL 853: Writing of Poetry
Hope Wabuke
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 945: Postcolonial Literature
Kwame Dawes
ENGL 953 Seminar in Creative Writing Fiction
Jonis Agee
ENGL 971: Literary Theory
Roland Végső
ENGL 976: Queer Rhetorics/Queer Pedagogies
Stacey Waite
One-Credit/Low Enrollment Courses
ENGL 893: Comps to Dissertation
Stacey Waite
ENGL 993: Placement
Brie Owen
ENGL 895: Writing Center Internship
Rachel Azima