<p>I will be a freshman in the fall, and while going through my summer welcome guide I saw that in order to take the English 1000H course, the subscore for English on the ACT has to be 29. I usually wouldn't be bothered by this, but because my score on the English section was a 28 I was wondering if my summer welcome adviser might make an exception and let me take the honors course? Are the benefits of the honors course vs the general course that much of a difference? </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>-jgrl</p>
<p>Were you accepted to the Honor College?</p>
<p>echo tori_mom there. you have to be in the honors college to take eng1000H. if you’re not in the honors college, you can still petition to be in it. the form’s online. i think it’s on honors.missouri.edu</p>
<p>other than that, once you’re in the honors college you can take any honors classes you want. </p>
<p>for lower level/intro classes, it’s not going to make a huge difference whether or not you take it honors or regular. eng1000 is kind of interesting in that it’s pretty much made up of instructors that are grad students and have free reign over the way they teach. for example, friends of mine have taken eng1000 with an emphasis on vietnam war, one took it where they reflected on movies, one was based on poetry, one was all some obscure british author…you get the idea. pretty much everyone who takes eng 1000 has to write a certain amount of papers, but the topics of the papers are completely up to the instructors. i transferred in some credit for eng 1000 so i didn’t ever take it here, but it’s my understanding that the course topic is kind of luck of the draw.</p>
<p>if eng 1000H means you’ll have a professor rather than an instructor, it might be worth it. you may gain better writing skills. then again, a prof may grade harder than a grad student. seems like there are pros and cons to both sides of the argument. </p>
<p>if it were me: i’d try to take it honors, but if it didn’t work, i wouldn’t sweat it. if you want to take honors classes, you’ll have plenty of opportunities to do so besides eng 1000! good luck</p>
<p>thank you so much! the replies you’ve posted on here have been very helpful (even to the questions i didn’t ask myself!)</p>