<p>My son was accepted into LAH (English) for the Fall. He is bright but sometimes disorganized and finds himself playing catch-up a lot. The question is whether he can handle the LAH work load, or whether he should consider passing on LA Honors. Can anyone explain what the LAH workload is like (and how it might compare to the non-Honors workload)?</p>
<p>He should take any opportunity that cross in front of him. It’s ridiculous to reject something just because it is very difficult, or involve a lot of work to get. He might not succeed working hard but if he wants to succeed he better work hard. </p>
<p>In other words I suggerst give it a try go for it, and in the process think deeply why he is caght up and change that defect and grow up personally. </p>
<p>Both programs in the backgroud or in the foundation are almost the same, but one is more fancy or have more stuff than the other so, challenger.</p>
<p>Freshmen LAHers are required to take two LAH classes, I believe, one of them being LAH 102H. LAH 102H is an hour and a half long class every Monday where you hear a lecture from a professor in a liberal arts department, and then afterwards, you write a paper on a topic related to the lecture (e.g., when we had a lecture about physical anthropology, we were made to write an essay afterwards about practical uses of the comparative method in areas other than physical anthropology). This can be stressful for someone who is disorganized or a slow worker, because you only have until Wednesday afternoon to turn in each paper. However, it definitely helped my writing skills, and there’s a monetary prize involved for the three best essays of each week.<br>
The other class I took was the infamous LAH 305, or History at Play/Reacting to the Past. I won’t bother to tell you all about it in this thread, but it is very, very writing/reading intensive and it completely took over my life. </p>
<p>In short, your son should definitely do LAH. It’s a great community and he definitely shouldn’t pass it up just because he thinks it might be too hard. If he’s intelligent enough and has the work ethic to get accepted to an honors program in the first place, then he should be able to handle the workload.</p>