Gatorman

My son is setting up his classes for Spring 2009 and wants to take Honors Computers and Honors Business communications. He will be taking about 15 total hours. His advisor told him not to take these two classses together because they both require a lot of out of class room group work which is very time consuming. Can someone give me an idea if he should even try this or just take them in seperate semesters as suggested?

bthomp1

That sounds like good advice. The honors technology classes K204 and X202 have semester-long group projects that are very demanding time wise. My son is in K204 and they meet one to two times a week to coordinate work and iron out database problems. X202 has a project that was 1/3 of the semester grade a few years ago (don't know what percentage it is today), as described in the .pdf file below. The classes also have lots of opportunities for extra credit which take some time, but which help raise the student's semester grade by 2.5-3.5 percent, which is a huge and usually makes the difference between a B+ and an A-; an A- and an A; etc. The honors technology courses are way more work but they reward you with better grades if you work hard on the projects and the extra credit exercises.

http://www.kelley.iu.edu/ICWEB/images/kinser.pdf

X205 has a capstone case competition between teams of students, so that would probably be very time consuming. A semester with the case competition and the K204 team project sounds very tough.

radronOmega

If you look back and search previous posts, you will see that we
advocate students schedule around the time required on each
class, so the fact that your counselor is aware of that and telling
you that is a good thing.

Off topic

freshman son registering on the 31st? o_O Damn my November 20th
date, damn it. damn it, damn it!!!! >_< ugh, watch my 7 classes
all be waitlisted.

Gatorman

Thanks for all the help, this could have been a real disaster!