Special sections of ENGL 101 may be devoted to literature by and about groups of Americans.
Beginning writing as inquiry using literary texts as resources for writing and the rhetorically-based concepts for reading and writing. Special sections may be devoted to literature by and about groups of Americans. A. African American Literature B. Chicano Literature D. Native American Literature
ENGL 140 does not satisfy the College of Arts and Sciences Distribution Requirements. No more than 6 credit hours of ENGL 140, ENGL 141, and ENGL 142 can be counted toward the degree.
Writing and grammar in academic contexts for international students.
ENGL 141 does not satisfy the College of Arts and Sciences Distribution Requirements. No more than 6 credit hours of ENGL 140, ENGL 141, and ENGL 142 can be counted toward the degree.
Reading comprehension in academic contexts for international students.
ENGL142
Advanced Academic Listening and Speaking Skills LINK
Credit Hours:
3
Course Format:
Lecture 3
Course Delivery:
Classroom
Prereqs:
Permission.
ENGL 142 does not satisfy the College of Arts and Sciences Distribution Requirements. No more than 6 credit hours of ENGL 140, ENGL 141, and ENGL 142 can be counted toward the degree.
Advanced academic listening and speaking skills in academic conexts for international students.
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.
Required of English majors; recommended for minors.
The issues, perspectives, and methods of the discipline. The relationships among authors, texts, audiences, and contexts. Practice in imaginative and analytical approaches.
Nonfiction film genre from the 1890s to the present, highlighting the major events that have significantly affected it, its cinematic techniques, and its social context. Weekly film screenings.
Introduction to groups of literary works of various types from various periods and countries, studied in the context of a significant issue or concept.
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.
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.
ENGL212
Introduction to Lesbian and Gay Literature LINKCrosslisted as WMNS 212
Credit Hours:
3
Course Format:
Lecture 3
Course Delivery:
Classroom
ACE Outcomes:
5, 9
Introduction to variety of works by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender writers. Significant literary, cultural, social, and historical issues and themes.
Historical survey from 1880 to the present, dealing with the major directors, films, genres, and critical theories which have shaped films in the twentieth century. Weekly film screenings.
ENGL215
Introduction to Women's Literature LINKCrosslisted as WMNS 215
Credit Hours:
3
Course Format:
Lecture 3
Course Delivery:
Classroom
ACE Outcomes:
5, 9
Groups:
Literary and Cultural Studies
Introduction to English literature written by women, studies in the cultural, social, and/or historical contexts.
Various film genres, such as Gothic, the Western, and film noir, from their inception in the early 1900s to the present day. Variations (such as 219A, Film Noir) may concentrate on a particular genre. Weekly film screenings.
Language as a system of arbitrary symbols for human communication. Pragmatics, semantics, syntax, morphology, phonology, language variation, first and second language acquisition, written language, language processing and the neurology of language.
Good standing in the University Honors program, or by invitation.
Intensive study of major works by British authors of the Romantic and Victorian periods and of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
ENGL232
The Jewish Idea in Modern Literature LINKCrosslisted as MODL 232
Credit Hours:
3
Course Delivery:
Classroom
Groups:
Literary and Cultural Studies
Introduction to the literary and historical context of Jewish cultural life as expressed in modern works of literature in translation and cinema by Jewish intellectuals.
ENGL234D
Major Themes in World Literature LINKCrosslisted as MODL 234D
Credit Hours:
3
Course Delivery:
Classroom
Groups:
Literary and Cultural Studies
Open to all undergraduates
Through the study of masterpieces read in translation, explores the ideas and motifs that define the major literary expressions of the human experience. Includes the rebel, love, madness, representations of gender, the quest, childhood.
History and criticism of international women film directors.
ENGL240A
The World of Classical Greece LINKCrosslisted as CLAS 281
Credit Hours:
3
Course Delivery:
Classroom
ACE Outcomes:
5
Groups:
Literary and Cultural Studies
English translations of the great works of Greek literature which familiarize the student with the uniquely rich and influential world of Classical Greece.
ENGL240B
The World of Classical Rome LINKCrosslisted as CLAS 282
Credit Hours:
3
Course Delivery:
Classroom
ACE Outcomes:
5
Groups:
Literary and Cultural Studies
English translations of the great works of Latin literature, which familiarize the student with the uniquely rich and influential world of Classical Rome.
An introduction to the English-language literary tradition of a nation other than the U.S. or Britain, e.g., Ireland, Canada, India, Australia.
ENGL244
African American Literature since 1865 LINKCrosslisted as ETHN 244
Credit Hours:
3
Course Format:
Lecture 3
Course Delivery:
Classroom
ACE Outcomes:
5, 9
Groups:
Literary and Cultural Studies
Representative African American works written since 1865, of various genres, studied in their social and historical contexts.
ENGL244A
Introduction to African Literature LINKCrosslisted as ETHN 244A
Credit Hours:
3
Course Delivery:
Classroom
ACE Outcomes:
5, 9
Groups:
Literary and Cultural Studies
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.
ENGL244E
African American Literature before 1865 LINKCrosslisted as ETHN 244E
Credit Hours:
3
Course Format:
Lecture 3
Course Delivery:
Classroom
ACE Outcomes:
5, 9
Groups:
Literary and Cultural Studies
Representative early African American works of various genres, studied in their social and historical contexts, from the oral tradition to the Civil War.
ENGL245A
Introduction to Asian American Literature LINKCrosslisted as ETHN 245A
Credit Hours:
3
Course Format:
Lecture 3
Course Delivery:
Classroom
ACE Outcomes:
5, 9
Groups:
Literary and Cultural Studies
Introduction to Asian American literature and relevant historical and cultural background.
ENGL245J
Jewish-American Literature LINKCrosslisted as JUDS 245J
Credit Hours:
3
Course Format:
Lecture 3
Course Delivery:
Classroom
ACE Outcomes:
5, 9
Groups:
Literary and Cultural Studies
Twentieth and twenty-first century literature by major Jewish-American authors.
ENGL245N
Introduction to Native American Literature LINKCrosslisted as ETHN 245N
Credit Hours:
3
Course Format:
Lecture 3
Course Delivery:
Classroom
ACE Outcomes:
5, 9
Groups:
Literary and Cultural Studies
Introduction to literature by Native Americans covering early and recent periods.
Introduction to the writing of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Writing, the development of the craft and technique, and analytical reading skills.
Reading and analysis of published autobiographical writing and practice in recalling, researching, and writing autobiographical material. [258x]. Special Topics in Writing (2 cr) Prereq: 6 hrs freshman English. Independent study course for intermediate students in the study and practice of composition.
Introduction to the basics of screenplay writing from the conception of an idea through its realization in a screenplay written in the master scene format.
Major authors, themes, and intellectual trends in American literature from the beginnings to 1865. Works from the Colonial, Early National, and Romantic periods.
Major authors, themes, and intellectual trends in American literature from 1865 to the present. Works from the Realist, Modernist, and Contemporary periods.
May be repeated once for credit with a different topic.
Intensive examination of artistic movements and major directors in an important historic period of film. Examples: Russian film of the '20s, the French New Wave, Hollywood in the '30s. Weekly film screenings.
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.
ENGL277
Being Human in a Digital Age LINKCrosslisted as HIST 277
Credit Hours:
3
Course Format:
Lecture 3
Course Delivery:
Classroom
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.
ENGL 278 requires contributing to an ongoing web-based project.
Introduction to the variety of rationales, technologies, and materials that commonly inform electronic projects in the humanities. Definitions of digital research, various theoretical and methodological approaches, and the implications for the academy, publishers, classrooms, and libraries.
Introduction to the interdisciplinary study of both thematic and formal/technical relationships between works of literature and music, visual arts, theatre, and the plastic and spatial arts.
ENGL285
Introduction to Comparative Literature LINKCrosslisted as MODL 285
Credit Hours:
3
Course Delivery:
Classroom
Groups:
Literary and Cultural Studies
Prereqs:
Sophomore standing and at least 3 cr in literature in English or modern languages.
Course not taught every year.
Introduction to the methods and materials of scholarly comparison of literatures of different languages, cultures, historical periods, and genres.
Major playwrights and dramatic movements, such as realism, naturalism, expressionism, "epic theater," and theater of the absurd, from Ibsen to the present.
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.
Women in Popular Culture LINKCrosslisted as WMNS 315B/315X
Credit Hours:
3
Course Format:
Lecture 3
Course Delivery:
Classroom, Web
ACE Outcomes:
9
Groups:
Literary and Cultural Studies
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.
How language is used in the media, education, and politics. Bilingualism, speech style, kinesics, pragmatics, orality and literacy, dialects, gender and applied sociolinguistics.
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.
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.
May be repeated once for credit with a different topic.
Films produced in one country, seen in their aesthetic and historical context. Examples: Italian cinema since World War II, Japanese cinema, Australian cinema.
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.
Admission to Teacher Education Program in the College of Education and Human Sciences.
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.
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.
ENGL364
Introduction to Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature LINK
Credit Hours:
3
Course Delivery:
Classroom
ACE Outcomes:
5
Groups:
Literary and Cultural Studies
Major English writers-such as Dryden, Pope, Swift, Johnson-seen in the literary, historical, and intellectual context of the period 1660-1800.
ENGL365
Introduction to Nineteenth-Century British Literature LINK
Credit Hours:
3
Course Delivery:
Classroom
ACE Outcomes:
5
Groups:
Literary and Cultural Studies
Poetry and prose of the principal British authors of the Romantic and Victorian periods.
May be repeated once for credit with a different topic.
Study of particular film theories and methods of applied criticism for the intermediate or advanced student with previous film study experience. Weekly film screenings.
Admission to Teacher Education Program in the College of Education and Human Sciences.
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.
Shakespeare's Dramatic Arts LINKCrosslisted as THEA 386
Credit Hours:
3
Course Format:
Field 5
Course Delivery:
Classroom
ACE Outcomes:
5
Prereqs:
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.
Shakespeare and the well-known literature of England since the Middle Ages.
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.
Survey of British poetry, 1780-1835. The traditional major authors and some of the many other poets whose works were popular and influential. The social, historical, and cultural context.
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.
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.
Survey of British fiction (primarily novels), 1780-1850. Major and minor authors whose works illustrate the tastes and trends of British fiction in the early modern period. The literary, social, and cultural context.
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.
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 Romanticisms, literary modernism, the literature of Civil Rights, postmodernism, and/or the avant garde movement.
May be repeated once for credit with a different topic.
Study of specific critical and historical film theory and approaches to film history using more difficult texts (both as films and as readings) for the students, to create an intense immersion into more complex films and critical readings.
The shift from printed to digital texts and its implications for the nature of meaning and research in the humanities. Practice in digitally encoding texts and analysis of representative electronic projects dedicated to a variety of authors and genres.
Introduction for advanced students to the history and methods of linguistics, to the theory of language, and to applications of linguistics in a variety of fields and disciplines.
Practical application of the principles of linguistics. Examples: TESOL Theory and Practice, Second Language Composition Theory and Practice, Introduction to First and Second Language Acquisition, Teaching of Grammar.
The works of a particular major author, such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, or Milton situated within literary, historical, biographical, and critical context.
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.
Works of writers with connections to one or more American ethnic communities, seen in their historical, intellectual, and cultural context. Survey of ethnic literature.
ENGL445B/845B
Topics in African American Literature LINKCrosslisted as ETHN 445B
Credit Hours:
3
Course Format:
Lecture 3
Course Delivery:
Classroom
Groups:
Literary and Cultural Studies
Prereqs:
Junior standing.
The study of a particular topic in African American poetry, fiction, and/or non-fiction prose.
ENGL445K/845K
Topics in African Literature LINKCrosslisted as ETHN 445K
Credit Hours:
3
Course Format:
Lecture 3
Course Delivery:
Classroom
Groups:
Literary and Cultural Studies
Prereqs:
Junior standing.
Topics in African poetry, fiction, and/or non-fiction prose.
ENGL445N/845N
Topics in Native American Literature LINKCrosslisted as ETHN 445N
Credit Hours:
3
Course Format:
Lecture 3
Course Delivery:
Classroom
Groups:
Literary and Cultural Studies
Prereqs:
Junior standing.
Topics in Native American poetry, fiction, and/or non-fiction prose. Critical theory and cultural criticism.
3 hrs English composition above the English 200 level.
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.
The various genres and movements of Medieval English literature and their cultural context.
ENGL462A/862A
Ideas of Ethnicity in Medieval and Renaissance Literature LINK
Credit Hours:
3
Course Delivery:
Classroom
Groups:
Literary and Cultural Studies
Medieval and Renaissance literary texts that involve encounters between different religions and cultures. Readings from chronicles, romances, travel writings, debates, and epics.
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.
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.
Rhetoric and rhetorical theory in relation to literature, composition, and language.
ENGL475A/875A
Rhetorical Theory: Rhetoric of Women Writers LINKCrosslisted as WMNS 475A/875A
Credit Hours:
3
Course Format:
Lecture 3
Course Delivery:
Classroom
Groups:
Writing, Rhetoric, and Culture
Prereqs:
Junior standing.
Rhetoric and rhetorical theory of women writers and speakers and its implications for literature, composition, literacy, feminist theory, and women's and gender studies.
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.
Integration and application of skills and knowledge gained in courses taken for the English major. Involves synthesis, reflection, and a substantive final writing project.
ENGL489/889
Medieval Literature and Theology LINKCrosslisted as RELG 489
Credit Hours:
3
Course Delivery:
Classroom
Groups:
Literary and Cultural Studies
The relationship between significant medieval theologies and primary medieval poets and prose masters.