Engineering Honors Decision Came Today

pbleigh
Fri, 31 Jan 2020 02:59:44 +0000

@Jamesmom3 @icedmachiato If you look at the course listings for engineering courses the class sizes can be a little distorted. For example for one engineering class you may have one teacher teaching 3-5 different sections of 20 students each. If you look closely the teacher will have a lecture with all of those students at the same time; the 20 student sections come into play for their lab time only and that is taught by TA’s. Another example specifically for honors engineering courses is frequently like this: you will see one teacher assigned to the honors section of a particular engineering course and it will have just a handful on students; but, if you look closely you will see another section taught by the same teacher at the same time that is not honors and has 50-80 students in it. This is what they called a stacked honors class. The honors kids go to the exact same class as the non-honors but have a different syllabus then they do. Once you get to some 300 and 400 level courses class sizes tend to be much smaller anyways but honors classes tend to be of the stacked variety. I think my son has only had 2-3 dedicated honors classes besides research. The honor’s kids do get to pre-register the first day of pre-registration and that is a great perk.