Graduate Certificate in Literature and Culture

University of Nebraska at Omaha

The graduate certificate in Literature and Culture offers an education in the intersection between literature written in English-either originally or in translation-with human culture broadly considered. The certificate will give high school teachers the credential to teach preparatory coursework worthy of college credit at UNO and other universities. And it is also designed as a continuing education option for anyone wishing to study literature at a post-baccalaureate level for personal enrichment. The certificate can be earned as part of the larger Master’s in English at UNO, and it can also be applied toward completion of that larger program retroactively.
The certificate will teach:
literature of every period, from ancient to modern, in a variety of thematic and historical contexts
cultural encounters captured imaginatively on the pages of the literary text
the relationship of a culture to the literature produced within it, both harmonious and discordant
theories of literary effects on the course of human culture and history and
literature as a celebrated artifact of human hope, critique, and beauty.

College of Arts and Sciences