Usually means: Optional courses chosen by students.
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  1. electives: Merriam-Webster
  2. electives: Collins English Dictionary
  3. electives: Vocabulary.com
  4. Electives, electives: Wordnik
  5. electives: Wiktionary
  6. electives: Dictionary.com
  7. Electives: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Electives: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Electives: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Electives: Medical dictionary

(Note: See elective as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (elective)

adjective:  Of, or pertaining to voting or elections; involving a choice between options.
adjective:  Open to choice; freely chosen; (also, usually) unnecessary; minor.
adjective:  (US health care system, technical) Scheduled and nonemergent (regardless of whether necessary or unnecessary and whether minor or serious).
noun:  Something that is an option or may be freely chosen, especially a course of study.
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