Electives
All Students
Program elective requirements are listed in the catalog for the year the student enrolled in their program.
Unless otherwise stated, elective credits may be taken from any discipline, but credit will not be granted for coursework that is deemed to be similar or foundational to the student’s degree program required coursework. For example, a course in the foundations of naturopathic medicine could not be applied to the elective credit requirement for naturopathic medicine (NM) students.
General Electives: defined as a course at any level
Programmatic Electives: limited to specific courses directly related to the program
Dual Degree Students
If a dual-degree student has waived a required course from one or both of their degree programs, that student may use coursework from one program to make up waived credits in the other program in which they are concurrently enrolled.
In addition, students may use core credits in their secondary academic degree or certificate program to fulfill general elective credit requirements in their primary academic degree program. Required electives from one program may not be substituted for programmatic (i.e., required discipline-specific) electives in another program.
If the student has completed all the general electives for the primary program prior to adding the secondary program, the general electives for the secondary program would be waived.
Naturopathic Medicine Students
A maximum of 6 credits from any one discipline may be used to satisfy NM program elective requirements (except as outlined in the Electives Policy for dual-degree students). Also, only 3 credits of the Summer Massage Intensive program may be applied toward the total number of elective credits required to graduate from the naturopathic medicine program.
When an NM student is granted a waiver for core coursework, additional elective credits equal to the number of credits waived must be earned to fulfill the total elective credit requirement. The rule of a 6-credit maximum does not apply to elective credits being taken to satisfy waived credits. Elective credits covering waived course credits may be from any discipline.