What is "electives"

Usage examples of "electives".

Peppering his schedules with electives in art, music, current events, comparative literature, and even drama, he gradually acquired a true old-fashioned liberal arts education.

After that, there is a wide field of electives, hundreds of thousands of them.

We'll outline the course of basic study and you then may take such electives as you wish.

He promised to supply me with recordings of the electives so I could pick out what we wanted.

All we'd need to do was pick a number of electives in geography or social science or whatever they might call it.

Well, they were rather shocking—only forty-two hundred electives left out of fifty-eight hundred infantry, and eighteen hundred of a trifle over three thousand cavalry.