Are Honors courses harder?
Honors courses are not the college equivalent of AP courses. You will not be asked to do 2-3 times as much work as students in non-honors courses. Nor will the classes move at an accelerated pace, covering twice as much material. Instead, honors courses are designed to probe deeper into the topics in the course, to let you discover the material rather than have it all presented to you in lecture format, and to let you explore independently some of the topics which are of particular interest to you. You should not have to work harder in an honors class than other students do in non-honors courses. If they are spending 4 hours a week reading, studying and writing for a course, you should expect to spend about the same amount of time in an honors course. You will in most cases be reading different textbooks and doing different assignments than students in non-honors courses. Our aim, though, is to make the work manageable, allowing you to have plenty of time to work on your other courses
