honors course

American  

noun

1. a course in a university or college consisting largely of independent research terminating in a dissertation or a comprehensive examination, and earning for the student who passes it a degree with distinction.

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Example Sentences

In a YouTube video posted seven years ago, she can be seen teaching a math honors course to mostly freshman.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2023

However, if you really wanted to see what a down-and-out football team looks like, in all its misery, the Jacksonville Jaguars gave an honors course on Sunday.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 31, 2021

Thorpe is taking six honors course, she said, and “is very active in his church.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 26, 2018

Last spring the University of Tennessee offered a history honors course titled “Dolly’s America.”

From New York Times • Aug. 18, 2017

"Start right in, then, and take an honors course, for behold in me a map and a book and a high-grade society index for the whole blessed little island of Manhattan."

From One Wonderful Night A Romance of New York by Tracy, Louis