diff --git a/app/controllers/api/v5/courses_controller.rb b/app/controllers/api/v5/courses_controller.rb
index 261fec21..132d32c4 100644
--- a/app/controllers/api/v5/courses_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/api/v5/courses_controller.rb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ class Api::V5::CoursesController < Api::V5::ApiController
 
   def index
     if params[:search].present?
-      @query = Course.search params[:search].gsub(/[^0-9a-z\s]/i, '').split
+      @query = Course.search params[:search].gsub(/[^0-9a-z\-\s]/i, '').split
     else
       filter_model Course
       filter :section_id do |q|