<p>*Many of the schools we looked at said “not to be afraid” of honors classes. They say they are not harder, just smaller, and more writing. Is this the casae at UA? Are the classes actually more challenging? *</p>
<p>Challenging as being “more time consuming homework”? Not really. More interesting, more in depth…</p>
<p>I liken honors courses to this…Imagine discussing the same topic with 2 different groups of people …each conversation took one hour. The first group consists of mostly very intelligent people. The second group consists mostly of “very average intelligence” people. You’re going to have 2 VERY DIFFERENT conversations. It’s more likely that you’re going to learn more and hear more “new things” and “new theories” when discussing with the first group…even if you spent the same amount of time…and the first conversation wasn’t more “difficult”, but it probably was more interesting.</p>