Legal Question in Civil Rights Law in North Carolina

You should speak to an attorney, but unfortunately you have not stated grounds for discrimination. First, you don't have race discrimination as you are have not been treated differently because of your race. Second, to prove age discrimination you will need a lot more. Assuming you will have to do more work is not in of itself discrimination.

First, you have to definitively show that every other student in the class is younger than you by a significant amount. Then you have to definitively show that all of their reports are going to take much less work than yours. You assume that being older equals more work, when in fact some people may have had harder or more serious psychological turbulence at a younger age and thus require more work at younger stages. There is not nearly enough information here to definitively say either way.

Second, there is a much less relaxed coverage of discrimination laws in the post secondary education system. Primarily because you are not compelled to go to a certain school, take certain classes, or even go to college in the first place. And when one sues, they need to show damages. It is difficult to calculate damages based on having to do more work.

First, you should speak to your department dean and then administration. From there speak to an attorney, but a lawsuit is extremely unlikely. In fact it would be more efficient and cheaper to transfer to a school that will treat you better than to sue over one assignment in one class.