Elective courses provide the opportunity for students to take courses in areas of special interest. Courses may be selected from curriculum offerings related to particular intervention methods, fields of practice, intervention theories, social problems, populations, and research methods. Students may take advanced methods courses as electives in areas other than the student’s primary methods area. Students also have the opportunity to take relevant courses in other graduate programs and professional schools of the University. Up to 3 credits of course work from other UW graduate programs may be included within the approved Program of Study. Under some circumstances students may petition the Assistant Dean for Student Affairs to apply more than 3 elective credits from other graduate programs to their elective requirement, when the outside course offerings are part of a certificate program. Students may also take elective courses from other programs as an overload.