Any Parents on this site???

res_ipsa
Wed, 30 Jan 2013 15:42:41 +0000

Honors college and RC are completely separate.

RC is a residential college where students live and study and in the same environment. There is a focus on languages. Most of the classes are in the dorm where the RC is housed - I think it is moving back to East Quad next year. It is designed to create a small college within a larger university.

Honors is also a subset of LSA. There is a dorm where rooms are set aside for honors students - I think it will be West Quad next year - but unlike RC students are not expected to live there. Most do because it is a ticket to Central Campus housing. There are separate advisers for honors college - I think this provides a little more individual attention than the regular LSA advisers. There are classes that designated as honors classes and discussion sections in larger classes that are set aside for honors students. Often the professor will lead the honors discussion section. Honors students are required to take Great Books (or a substitute) for the first year writing requirement and are expected to average two honors classes a semester. There are also special programs (such as lectures) that are available to honors students (I think they are optional) and social events through the honors housing (also optional). Some say that the honors courses have a more intellectual focus (I think this is especially true in Math) and some say the average GPA is higher in the honors courses. Honors is probably a good route for a classics major.

There are a number of threads on this board on both RC and honors which should be able to find through the search engine.