I've been reading course evaluations* for all of our honors courses from the past few years. I've come across a number of comments where someone says a particular course really felt like an honors course, or was what they thought an honors course should be. I've probably come across a dozen or so such comments and it's been said about a range of courses. I have a sense of what I think an honors course should be, and I know what NCHC says an honors course should be. I would like to hear more about what you think an honors course should be.
Other than putting "honors" in the title or making it an 088 section, what is it that makes a course feel most like an honors course to you? Is it the content? Pedagogy? Something else? Or, on the negative side, what makes a course not feel like an honors course?
*It would be really great if more of you actually filled out the evaluations. I don't think any course made it to double digit responses this year. In case it isn't obvious, you completing evaluations is a necessary condition for your evaluations to contribute to decisions about courses and curriculum.
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