English Class Schedule: Fall 2024

• 3000 Level Courses
• 4000 Level Courses

For a complete list of English courses currently offered and additional information, please use UNO's Class Search.

3000 Level Course Offerings:

ENGL 3000: SPECIAL TOPICS IN ENGLISH — QUEER FILM

This class explores the ways in which LGBTQIA (or queer) individuals and communities are represented in film, how films construct and distrupt and queer stereotypes, and how films shape public memory of historical events and queer lives. Films will be examined through a queer lens, including queer theory and LGBT studies. Students will also produce critical blogs about the films that will be stored in UNO's Queer Archive.

Prereq: ENGL 1160

ENGL 3000: SPECIAL TOPICS IN ENGLISH — CRITICAL WRITING

This course prepares undergraduate students, whose fields of interest include any area of humanities and/or social sciences, for the specific writing styles and research methodologies expected in cultural studies disciplines. This preparation includes instruction in resource evaluation, organization strategies, sentence style and vocabulary, documentation styles, and revision strategies.

Prereq: Variable according to topic.

ENGL 3050: WRITING FOR THE WORKPLACE

In this course students learn to write polished, professional communication, focusing content for specific audiences and contexts. Instruction stresses audience and situational analysis, clarity, and professional tone and style as well as elements of format and pattern, research, and revision techniques.

Prereq: ENGL 1160, ENGL 1164, or permission of instructor

Bachelor of Multidisciplinary Studies (BMS) Program Section:

ENGL 3130: AMERICAN NONFICTION

This is an intermediate literature course intended to give students broad exposure to American nonfiction. Students will study and analyze a variety of literary forms, including the personal essay, memoir, and literary journalism, from a wide range of historical periods.

Prereq: ENGL 1160 or equivalent. Not open to non-degree graduate students.

ENGL 3150: FORM AND STYLE

This is an introduction to creative nonfiction. This course focuses on the study and analysis of the art of creative nonfiction and its various subgenres: personal essay, memoir, literary journalism, travel writing, segmented/collage essay, and literary/cultural analysis.

Prereq: ENGL 1160 or ENGL 1164 or a composition II equivalent. Not open to non-degree graduate students.

ENGL 3280: IRISH LITERATURE I

This course explores Irish literature from the early medieval period (c. 600) to the late nineteenth century and the Irish Literary Renaissance. Texts include works written in Irish as well as in English, and cover a variety of genres, including but not limited to: early medieval monastic nature poetry, medieval prose saga literature, the Irish bardic and aisling traditions, political satire and laments, Anglo-Irish Ascendancy novels, and the Irish Gothic.

Prereq: ENGL 1160 or permission required; ENGL 2410 and ENGL 2310 recommended.

ENGL 3610: INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS

An introduction to the concepts and methodology of the scientific study of language; includes language description, history, theory, variation, and semantics as well as first and second language acquisition. (Cross-listed with ENGL 8615).

Prereq: ENGL 1160 or equivalent.

ENGL 3980: TECHNICAL WRITING

This course emphasizes the problem-solving processes of producing effective written documents and visuals in technical professions. Students will study the genres, situations, and audiences related to professional settings, the contexts in which writing occurs, the process involved in individual and collaborative projects, and the production of technical documents.

Prereq: ENGL 1160 or permission

4000 Level Course Offerings:

ENGL 4250: WOMEN'S STUDIES LIT

A critical study of literature by and/or about women in which students learn about contributions of women to literature, ask what literature reveals about the identity and roles of women in various contexts, and evaluates standard interpretations from the perspectives of current research and individual experience. (Cross-listed with ENGL 8256, WGST 4250).

Prereq: ENGL 1160; ENGL 2410 or ENGL 2420 recommended.

ENGL 4340: SHAKESPEARE

A critical study of selected plays and poetry from Shakespeare's works, in the context of the historical and cultural moment of the English Renaissance and as a set of texts inherited and reinvented by modernity. (Cross-listed with ENGL 8346).

Prereq: ENGL 1160; ENGL 2410 or ENGL 2420 and ENGL 2310 are recommended.

ENGL 4670: SOCIOLINGUISTICS

An exploration of interconnections between language, culture, and communicative meaning, stressing interactional, situational, and social functions of language as they take place and are created within social contexts. (Cross-listed with ENGL 8676).

Prereq: ENGL 3610/ENGL 8615, or permission.

ENGL 4750: COMPOSITION THEORY & PEDAGOGY

This course is an overview of composition theories and pedagogies since 1968 and focuses on how historical movements in education and theoretical frameworks (rhetorical, expressivist, socio-cognitivist, collaborative, social constructionist, critical pedagogy, cultural studies, feminist, technological, and linguistic theories) both enrich and complicate the teaching of composition. (Cross-listed with ENGL 8756).

Prereq: Any 2000 or above writing course or permission

ENGL 4800: ENGLISH INTERNSHIP*

Supervised internship in a professional setting with a local employer or nonprofit organization. Hands-on experience. Work hours, activities, and responsibilities must be specified in a written agreement between the employer and the student in consultation with the internship director. Some internships will be paid and some will not. (Cross-listed with ENGL 8806).

Prereq: ENGL 2410 or ENGL 2420, an ENGL 4000-level writing course, Junior/Senior standing, and permission of internship director.

*Permission needed by instructor. Students wishing to enroll in the English Internship class should contact the instructor. To contact the instructor, please email Dr. O'Brien eeobrien@unomaha.edu. To fast-track your enrollment, please fill out the internship application found at http://www.unomaha.edu/college-of-arts-and-sciences/english/student-opportunities/internships.php.

ENGL 4840: TRAVEL WRITING

Travel Writing is a course in professional writing. Although the course includes critical examinations of texts, the primary focus is on the composition of various kinds of travel essays. (Cross-listed with ENGL 8846).

Prereq: ENGL 2410, ENGL 2420, or ENGL 3150

ENGL 4860: MODERN FAMILIAR ESSAY

Students in this course will read as well as write the Modern Familiar Essay, a sub-genre of Creative Nonfiction, with an emphasis on writing the informal essay. Essays will represent a wide scope of perspectives and issues, including gender, social class, education, politics, culture, sexuality, health, race, and ethnicity, and will range from the the sixteenth century "inventor" of the modern essay to twenty-first century practitioners of the form. This course will also cover a wide range of sub-genres and stylistic forms, such as memoir, autobiography, flash, experimental, and more. (Cross-listed with ENGL 8866).

Prereq: ENGL 2410 or ENGL 2110 or ENGL 3150 or instructor permission for Arts, 7-12; Secondary English, 7-12; and/or English as a Second Language, 7-12

ENGL 4940: PUBLISHING THE LINDEN REVIEW

This course will offer students an experiential learning opportunity within the publishing field. Students will work as an editorial team advised by their instructor to publish a biannual, international, online literary journal named The Linden Review. The Linden Review's mission is to publish high-quality creative nonfiction and book reviews that investigate the complexities of the word health. Health will be defined broadly as a deep understanding and appreciation of bodily, emotional, spiritual, social, political, and environmental well-being. (Cross-listed with ENGL 8946, MEDH 4940).

Prereq: ENGL 1160 or equivalent

ENGL 4950: BRINGING THE WAR HOME

Course explores the impact of war on combatants, their families and communities as represented in literary fiction, film, historical documentation, first-person accounts, and other texts written in or translated to English. (Cross-listed with ENGL 8956, MEDH 4950).

Prereq: ENGL 1160

ENGL 4960: TOPICS IN LANGUAGE & LIT — ANGLO-IRISH GOTHIC

This course introduces students to a specialized subject matter in the discipline of English Studies not covered in existing courses. This course may be repeated for different topics. (Cross-listed with ENGL 8966).

Prereq: Will vary depending on what the topic is.

ENGL 4980: INDEPENDENT STUDY

Specially planned readings in a well-defined field of literature or language, carried out under the supervision of a member of the English faculty. Designed primarily for the student who has need of work not currently available in the departmental offerings and who has demonstrated capability of working independently. May be repeated for credit once.

Prereq: Permission of the instructor, junior or senior, and no incompletes outstanding.

ENGL 4990: SENIOR PAPER OR PROJECT

Attached to an existing 4000-level English course in which a student is currently enrolled and normally added during the first six weeks of the academic semester, the Senior Paper or Project contracts a student to produce a culminating paper or project in an area of the English major. The paper or project produced in conjunction with this course will constitute a student's most dedicated accomplishment at the end of her or his undergraduate career.

Prereq: Permission of the instructor and senior standing. Not open to non-degree graduate students.

ENGL 8020: SEM: COLLEGE WRTG INTRUCTION

The seminar in college writing instruction prepares Graduate Teaching Assistants to fulfill their responsibilities as teachers of first-year composition.

Prereq: Graduate status and a teaching assistantship. Not open to non-degree graduate students.

ENGL 8030: FIELD-BASED RESEARCH METHODS

An overview of resources and methods for conducting qualitative, field-based research in English and related disciplines; students gain experience collecting data and analyzing data and reporting findings.

Prereq: Admission to the graduate program in English or permission of instructor. Not open to non-degree graduate students.

ENGL 8100: SEM: TOPICS IN AMERICAN LIT — DYSTOPIAS IN AMERICAN SOCIETY

This course involves the investigation of a particular topic (genre, author or group of authors, time period, subject area) in American literature. (The course may be repeated for additional credits under different topics.) Formerly ENGL 8060.

Prereq: Graduate standing; ENGL 8010 or 8030 recommended

ENGL 8890: SEM: EXPERIMENTS IN CREATIVE NONFICTION

This is a graduate seminar in creative nonfiction. This course explores, through an intensive engagement with long and short forms of creative nonfiction, the ways in which contemporary practitioners of the genre have experimented with form and meaning. Students will attempt their own experiments in writing.

Prereq: Graduate Standing, Two graduate-level creative nonfiction courses from ENGL 8846, ENGL 8866, ENGL 8870, or ENGL 8800, when topic is appropriate.

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