Does a higher section number indicate a harder course?

Colleges & Universities University of Pennsylvania
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<p>Does a higher section number indicate a harder course?</p>

<p>LGST-101-001</p>

<p>VS</p>

<p>LGST-101-**301<a href=“BFS%20seminar”>/B</a></p>

<p>Thanks! :)</p>

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<p>The BFS seminar will be tougher. Generally, for Wharton core courses 00x sections are normal and 30x sections are honors. Honors courses have more difficult material and more work, but are graded easier. Wharton core courses can have 25-30% As, and 30% Cs. Honors courses can have up to 50% As and if you try hard in some, you will get at least a B.</p>

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<p>Oh… I’m actually not in Wharton. I’m in the college but a BFS, so i was looking through some BFS seminars and this one caught my eye. Does this mean I’ll have to look for another class since its not offered by the College? Or can a BFS take whatever seminar he likes, regardless of which college offers it?</p>

<p>and you’re saying that this course is actually easier than the regular Wharton course? what about compared to College courses?</p>

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<p>i’m pretty sure any bfs seminar will fulfill that one-seminar-a-semester thing, regardless of school; you should be fine taking the lgst 101-301 section</p>

<p>of course, best to double-check with the bfs advisor</p>

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<p>one more question, its off topic, but anyway:</p>

<p>are freshman only allowed to take classes offered in the freshman timetable?</p>

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<p>You mean one seminar a year, right?</p>

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<p>oh is it one seminar a year? okay then, whatever the requirement is for bfs</p>

<p>(wasn’t a bfs, sorry about that)</p>

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<p>I believe that you can try to take courses not on the freshman timetable. I <em>think</em> that most of the courses not listed on the timetable are ones that freshmen would never take anyway.</p>

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<p>The freshman timetable has courses that are suggested for freshman, i.e. requirement courses and core courses for different majors. A freshman can, however, take whatever he wants to take. There are some courses only offered to freshmen, actually.</p>

<p>Also, students in the College are allowed to take for credit up to four courses outside of the College, so feel free to take LGST101; it’s actually a really good course!</p>

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<p>azneyes had a great question regarding lgst101 which was “and you’re saying that this course is actually easier than the regular Wharton course? what about compared to College courses?” I’m wondering the same thing.</p>

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<p>the question was whether the honors section was easier than the regular course, and the answer is no; the grading is gentler to compensate for added difficulty, but that doesn’t make it easier</p>

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<p>tenebrousfire is correct. The honors section is going to have much more work, but on the plus side it doesn’t have a final and doesn’t need to fit the Wharton curve. As far as a comparison to college courses, I thought it was much easier than most of my College courses, but that might just be me.</p>