<p>I have been accepted into FSU honors and I was thinking about the courses I wanted to take for the next year. First semester being physics A, Cal 3, general chemistry 1, and biocalculus lab. I was wondering which of the courses listed has an honors section and how hard is the honors section for general chemistry 1. Also, being in honors do you have to take the honors section of the course if available? Also, if you don’t have to take the honors section of a course, how hard is honors general chemistry. Does the copious amount of work from honors chem (from what i heard maybe this is not true) outweigh the benefits of a small class size and accessible profesor - if it is from a subject that you are not particulary interested in.</p>
<p>Bump: 39 view no answers - someone must know. Thanks in advance to people who answer.</p>
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<p>Use the FSU course lookup to see what courses had honors sections for fall 09 and spring 10. Summer and Fall 10 will be able to be viewed by about March 1. To see all sections unclick the open sections only box and if you get the main page again, uncheck again and then you can see ALL sections. For chem, do not search using CHM 1045–there is a different course number for honors sections. Search by department–chemistry. Then you can see all chem courses and which ones have honors sections. </p>
<p>Honors sections are open only to honors students, but honors students DO NOT HAVE TO TAKE an honors section. We cant answer your other questions. For you, best advice is to take some of your first semester courses honors and some not, and decide for your self the risk/reward ratio of more work vs smaller classes.</p>
<p>I can’t answer for the honors professors but what do you mean by an accessible professor?</p>
<p>I don’t know if other colleges differ, but at FSU every class I have taken, I felt that my professor was accessible, it’s simply taking the initiative to see them. Most of my professors had set office hours (at least 3-5 a week) but had an open door policy, if their door was open you could come in with no appointment and they would help. I’d say this is for more than half my professors. For the ones with no open door policy, if their office hours didn’t work for you they would always schedule appointments with you that worked with your schedule. </p>
<p>A lot of people who say their professor isn’t “accessible” really hasn’t actually tried talking with their professor, they see that the office hours don’t work for them and give up. A simple email or talk to them after class and all of them will help you make it work out.</p>
<p>As for the work load, I heard honors chemistry is really to “separate the strong from the weak”, I know multiple science majors who are no longer science majors because of that class. But be warned, it is what you put into it, I knew a lot of people who couldn’t pass non-honors general chemistry. </p>
<p>To sum up my whole post: College is what you put into it.</p>
<p>@sunny Thanks for the tool its really helpful
@m By accessible i meant the ability to ask questions during class due to small class size.
H gen chem sounds similar in workload to chem, so i suppose i’ll stick with honors - also i’ve reconsidered and decided to give chem another try and attribute my dislike of the subject to my mediocre teacher.</p>
<p>Chem is tough and definitely a weed-out class both chem I and II. But I think a honors class would be an advantage. In a smaller class you will be able to ask more questions, get more one on one help, and you would have more access to the prof and have to use the TA less. You would be less likely to get lost in the crowd. Also, there is a great Chem help room. It is staffed all day M-Th and half a day Friday all semester. You can show up and there will be one or more grad students who are TA’s for the labs and the recitation sections who are there to give assistance to students who drop in looking for help. This is in addition to TA office hours and prof office hours. While there are students who struggle, there is no lack of available assistance.</p>