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Pop-up Classes

Pop-up classes are designed to allow students to dive into emerging industry trends and gain skills to prepare them for future careers and NIL opportunities. Some of these courses and workshops are credit-bearing, please check the descriptions below.

Pop-up classes are open to all UNL students.

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Spring 2024 Pre-Session Spring 2024

Spring 2024 Pre-Session

All Spring 2024 pre-session business classes are online. Register for any of these during with your spring courses. Questions? Schedule an appointment with an academic advisor in Business Advising and Student Engagement.

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r programming
BSAD 391-PO1 | 1 CREDIT HOUR | Graded

R Programming

ONLINE | 1/2-1/19
Open to all unl students.

In this introduction to R — one of the most in-demand programming languages for data analysis — students will learn the basics and apply them to a series of short projects.

Faculty: Christopher Mann

a phone being held in the air in NYC.
FINA 398.PO1 | 1 CREDIT HOUR | Graded | #NILbraska

Budgeting Bootcamp: Mastering Your Money Management Skills

ONLINE
Open to all unl students.

How do you plan today for your financial future? Take FINA 398: Special Topic - Personal Finance to learn strategies and skills to effectively plan your finances to reach your future financial goals.

Faculty: Lindsay Tillinghast

a phone being held in the air in NYC.
JOMC 292.PO2 | 1 CREDIT HOUR | P/NP | #NILbraska

Travel Writing

ONLINE | 1/2-1/19
Open to all unl students.

Have you ever wanted to travel for a living? What if you could do it for free? Learn how to pitch, write and publish travel stories to print and online publications, plus the ins and outs of working with tourism bureaus and PR companies to schedule FAM trips. Course will include instruction on both writing and networking within the industry.

Faculty: Nora Tarte

Students in class focusing on a faculty member.
JOMC 492/892.PO1 | 1 CREDIT HOUR | P/NP | #NILbraska

Branding Yourself in Today's Market

ONLINE | 1/2-1/19
Open to all unl students.

This online asynchronous pop-up course will explore strategies in better understanding how to brand yourself in today's ever-changing market. One of the best ways to articulate your skills, experience, knowledge, and overall worth in today’s competitive job market is to create a personal brand that helps you stand out in the crowd. Learn how to formulate your own value proposition and convey your knowledge, skills, and abilities to prospective employers. This course will leverage relevant social media platforms and other online portfolio tools to help you reframe how you approach your personal brand.

Faculty: Frauke Hachtmann

a phone being held in the air in NYC.
JOMC 392.PO1 | 1 CREDIT HOUR | P/NP | #NILbraska

The "Reel" Deal: Instagram for Storytelling

ONLINE | 1/2-1/19
Open to all unl students.

1 billion people use Instagram across the globe each and every month, spending an average of 30 minutes per day. 500 million people use Instagram stories every day and nearly 50% of people have visited a website to make a purchase after seeing a product or service. In the U.S., 26% of people aged 18 to 24 have recently used Instagram specifically to access coronavirus news. The platform provides countless opportunities for brands, businesses and organizations, from non-profits and for profits to large news organizations to tell stories and connect a message with a consumer. In this course, students will take a deep dive into the Instagram platform researching best practices, ethics and learning the ins and out of how to create and measure content. Students will learn and create content for the grid, stories, IGTV, reels, Instagram live and eCommerce to best leverage the platform to accomplish strategic communication goals.

Faculty: Tyler Thomas

Spring 2024

Hands pointing at a computer screen.
ENTR 325 | 1 CREDIT HOUR

48-Hour Challenge

IN PERSON | 2/15-2/17 | HLH 231
Open to all unl students.

Experience the highs, lows, fun and pressure of developing a business idea and working in a startup environment. Whether participating for credit or not, all students at Nebraska are welcome to bring a business idea – no matter how developed it is – and form teams to develop those early-stage ideas in this immersive experience.

Instructor: Samantha Fairclough

Andrew Hanna teaching a course.
MNGT 398.951 | 1 CREDIT HOUR | Graded

Applied Design Thinking: A Human-Centered Approach to Designing Your Life

IN PERSON AT THE BAY | 10 A.M. - 2 P.M. | 2/10, 2/17, 2/24, 3/2
Open to all unl students.

In this course, co-instructors Dr. Andrew Hanna and Mike Smith (founder of The Bay and Stanford-certified Life Design facilitator) will use the entrepreneurial skillset of “design thinking” to address a student problem of the utmost importance: The inability to design your life and career. This class offers a framework, tools and a community of peers and mentors where you’ll address this problem through assigned readings, reflections and exercises. The final deliverable will be the creation of an “Odyssey Plan” focusing on taking action in the 3-5 years following graduation from the university.

Faculty: Andrew Hanna

Super Bowl LVII
JOMC 292.791 | 1 CREDIT HOUR | P/NP | #NILbraska

The Super Bowl of Advertising

ONLINE | 1/22-2/23
Open to all unl students.

The Super Bowl is the most viewed, most anticipated, most expensive and most influential venue in the world for advertisers. Many people watch it just for the ads. Since Super Bowl I in 1967, the cost of a 30-second spot increased from $40,000 to $7 million in 2023. It is the place for advertisers to showcase their best work to 800+ million viewers around the world and continues to be of unrelenting interest to advertising, marketing, and branding professionals everywhere. In this class, we will take a look at the history of Super Bowl advertising, examine the game-changing ads that became part of the cultural zeitgeist, and discuss many of the hits, misses and buzz-generating campaigns throughout the years. And because the class takes place during Super Bowl LVIII, we’ll stay on top of the industry hype leading up to the game, do a post-game analysis of the winners and losers, and try to answer the question, “Is it really worth $7 million for just 30-seconds or is it nothing more than a flex on the part of clients and agencies with big budgets and even bigger egos?”

Faculty: Brian Hubbard

a phone being held in the air in NYC.
JOMC 392.791 | 1 CREDIT HOUR | P/NP | #NILbraska

The "Reel" Deal: Instagram for Storytelling

ONLINE | 3/18-4/19
Open to all unl students.

1 billion people use Instagram across the globe each and every month, spending an average of 30 minutes per day. 500 million people use Instagram stories every day and nearly 50% of people have visited a website to make a purchase after seeing a product or service. In the U.S., 26% of people aged 18 to 24 have recently used Instagram specifically to access coronavirus news. The platform provides countless opportunities for brands, businesses and organizations, from non-profits and for profits to large news organizations to tell stories and connect a message with a consumer. In this course, students will take a deep dive into the Instagram platform researching best practices, ethics and learning the ins and out of how to create and measure content. Students will learn and create content for the grid, stories, IGTV, reels, Instagram live and eCommerce to best leverage the platform to accomplish strategic communication goals.

Faculty: Tyler Thomas