CSU Expository Reading and Writing Course = Remedial?!

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So today was my first day of school, I am for the most part satisfied with the students in my classes (a committed student body for the majority, except stats kinda - but that’s expected…physics H is filled with juniors but that’s fine). Here are my classes in senior year:

AP Calculus AB
AP Statistics
CSU Expository Reading and Writing
AP Art History
Physics Honors
AP United States Government / AP Macroeconomics

The students in the CSU ERWC class, don’t want to be rude, but most of them are HUGE bums. I thought from the description of the class, it would seem rigorous - quite frankly the most rigorous English class behind AP English Literature, of course. But the student body in the CSU ERWC class just overall shocked me since I was expecting some top students in the class (I only like 2 guys in the class and respect a few - that’s it, yikes).

I’m hesitant on switching to Multicultural Literature Accelerated. I’m just worried that CSU ERWC is remedial or not. I love the instructor, she put on an excellent view of what the class will consist of, but I don’t know if it’s worth it. She did say that many of her students last year got into the UC and CSU system, but for some reason I don’t quite believe it.

I seriously do not want to be rude but I’m just asking if taking CSU ERWC is worth it or switching over to Multicultural Literature Accelerated is the better option. Thoughts?

No, I am not interested in taking AP English Literature; I am highly ambitious of taking English classes in college since they are important.

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https://www.calstate.edu/eap/englishcourse/ indicates that ERWC is a “a rigorous, rhetorically based, full-year college preparatory English course for high school seniors designed to support college-readiness in English for California’s diverse students”, not a college course.

In the high school context, it is not a remedial course, but intended to reduce the need for remedial English courses needed when the students enter college at CSU campuses by addressing common areas of weakness found in English placement testing at CSU campuses. I.e. it is a standard level high school English course that is intended to be a better one than the standard level high school English courses it replaces, as opposed to an advanced (for high school) English course like AP English literature is.

If you want to be in an advanced English course with the stronger students in English, take AP English literature instead.