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Course Schedule - Fall Semester 2026
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ENGL 250 001 (CRN: 15794)
THE NOVEL & ITS CULTURAL POWER
Long Title: THE NOVEL AND ITS CULTURAL POWER: WAYS OF STORYTELLING AND WORLDMAKING
Department: English and Creative Writing
Instructor: King, Heather
Meeting: 9:00AM - 9:50AM MWF (24-AUG-2026 - 4-DEC-2026)
Part of Term: Full Term
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Language of Instruction: Taught in English
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Method of Instruction: Face to Face
Credit Hours: 3
Course Syllabus:
Course Materials: Rice Campus Store
Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Level(s):
Undergraduate Professional
Visiting Undergraduate
Undergraduate
Section Max Enrollment: 25
Section Enrolled: 4
Waitlisted: 0 (Max 99)
Current members of the waitlist have priority for available seats.
Enrollment data as of: 26-APR-2026 12:03PM
Final Exam: No Final Exam
Description: Course designed to introduce students to the intellectual, historical and aesthetic importance of the novelistic tradition. Selection of works from the 19th century to the present may include Austen, Dickens, Flaubert, James, Woolf, Ellison, Nabokov, Rushdie, and Franzen, and others.