When you major in English at Nebraska, you’ll explore print and digital texts to discover deeper meanings through literary, rhetorical and historical analysis. Learn how to write fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction with award-winning authors. Amplify your understanding of society and culture while empowering yourself to imagine audacious solutions to insoluble societal problems through engaging texts from a diverse range of experiences.
Discover what moves you with a diverse blend of academic disciplines.
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Connect your major, interests and goals to any field.
Dive deep into your English major while taking a wide variety of courses across all areas in the College of Arts and Sciences. Graduate academically well-rounded and eager to keep learning. Use your collaboration and communication skills to address complex problems and make a positive impact professionally and personally.
Along with your faculty, professional academic advisors and career coaches will help you make a one-of-a-kind degree plan. We are focused on your success, while at Nebraska and after graduation, whether your goal is employment or graduate/professional school.
English is a broad academic field, and you’ll take courses across genres, periods of time and topics. You can select from several interdisciplinary areas, like medieval and renaissance studies, ethnic studies, digital humanities, film studies, traditional American literature or British literature. Be ready for an active classroom that is small, intimate and discussion based.
Examine science fiction from its origins in the 18th century to its contemporary expression. Explore issues of technological modernity and mediation through literary texts.
Literature of War and Peace (ENGL 210P)
Explore literary works in response to war, conflict and peace.
African American Literature before 1865 (ENGL 244E)
Study representative early African American works of various genres, studied in their social and historical contexts from the oral tradition to the Civil War.
Women and Pop Culture (ENGL 315B)
Consider the relationship between women's roles and popular images in the media, including romances, television, science fiction and magazines, with attention to their historical development.
American Short Story (ENGL 403)
Examine the narrative genre of the short story, as represented by stories from American authors of the nineteenth century to the present day.
Modern Fiction (ENGL 405E)
Read British and American novels and short stories from 1910 to 1950 to examine Modernism’s interpretation of revolutionary changes in culture and society.
