<p>Is the workload the same as two classes combined?</p>
<p>Are you referring primarily to language courses? It’s not so much difficulty as time commitment. They generally meet for 9-10 hours of class time a week (a normal class meets for 3, an intro language may meet for 4, 5, or 6) and go twice as fast (and have roughly twice the work). So it’s the work and time commitment of 2 classes, even if the difficulty doesn’t necessarily increase by the same amount.</p>