Weirdest DEAC-accredited universities and degrees

[bjcheung77]

More zany degrees I found:

• Sonoran Desert Institute - Associate's Degrees in guns and drone strikes (https://sdi.edu/programs/associate-degre...echnology/)
  
• Holmes Institute MA Consciousness Studies - includes courses like "The Quantum Doctor"
  
• Viridis Graduate Institute "Doctor of Arts in Ecological Psychology and Environmental Humanities with a Specialization in Regenerative Coaching"
  

One of our members have a SDI Associates! And for Viridis, I actually recommended that to Supermind a few months after he got his MS Psych from Walden. It's a unique degree in Ecological Psychology, even though they're NA, I thought they had a good course list in the subject matter.

[Mint Berry Crunch]

Beats me, I wonder if they were naming it Atlantic because they were targeting nations closest to the Atlantic Ocean, even though they're in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

I don't remember this for sure, but wasn't it that they started out being domiciled somewhere on the East Coast before relocating to Hawai'i and they just kept the name?

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Naprapathy is historically a breakaway from chiropractic but it emphasizes soft tissue manipulation. It's licensed in IL, NM, NV, and OH (but it appears only grandfathered to historical licensees in OH). It also seems to have a foothold in Scandinavia. Although Southwest University of Naprapathic Medicine is accredited by the DEAC, its DN degree is a hybrid program with classes on-campus most Saturdays for the first two years, then a hands-on internship in the student clinic in year three.

No thanks, I'd rather just go to a bona fide orthopedist.

Funny enough, I was there on "campus" 2 years ago back in August in Virginia Beach to explore A.R.E. and the rest of the area. It's an interesting facility that hosts tours and provides insights into the realm of holistic healing and clairvoyants. They also have a room for meditation in the upstairs portion of the A.R.E. building with overlook out towards the beach and their own personal library. Atlantic University is adjacent to the A.R.E. building and practices the teachings that are a core part of A.R.E. I believe its located inside the Cayce Hospital where they provide massages as well. A lot of it is based off of dreams, psychology, and the afterlife. It derives from Edgar Cayce's history of healing people by dreaming and providing a treatment for them based off of those dreams. I believe a part of why it is called Atlantic University stems from the belief of Edgar Cayce, his wife Gertrude, and assoicates in the belief of finding Atlantis and other lost continents via those dreams (they were some pretty weird people, but interesting nonetheless). Plus, it's situated right there on the edge of the Atlantic.

Here's a link to dive deeper into Edgar Cayce: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Cayce

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More zany degrees I found:

• Sonoran Desert Institute - Associate's Degrees in guns and drone strikes (https://sdi.edu/programs/associate-degre...echnology/)
  
• Holmes Institute MA Consciousness Studies - includes courses like "The Quantum Doctor"
  
• Viridis Graduate Institute "Doctor of Arts in Ecological Psychology and Environmental Humanities with a Specialization in Regenerative Coaching"
  

One of our members have a SDI Associates!  And for Viridis, I actually recommended that to Supermind a few months after he got his MS Psych from Walden.  It's a unique degree in Ecological Psychology, even though they're NA, I thought they had a good course list in the subject matter.

I was also about to say, I remember someone did the associates in firearms from SDI.

[PearsonOTHMQualifi7654]

Beats me, I wonder if they were naming it Atlantic because they were targeting nations closest to the Atlantic Ocean, even though they're in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

I don't remember this for sure, but wasn't it that they started out being domiciled somewhere on the East Coast before relocating to Hawai'i and they just kept the name?

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Naprapathy is historically a breakaway from chiropractic but it emphasizes soft tissue manipulation. It's licensed in IL, NM, NV, and OH (but it appears only grandfathered to historical licensees in OH). It also seems to have a foothold in Scandinavia. Although Southwest University of Naprapathic Medicine is accredited by the DEAC, its DN degree is a hybrid program with classes on-campus most Saturdays for the first two years, then a hands-on internship in the student clinic in year three.

No thanks, I'd rather just go to a bona fide orthopedist.

Some medical doctors make fun of orthopedic surgeons because the orthopedic surgeon is concerned with a local issue, such as a knee, and doesn't really focus on everything else happening in the body, which may be contributing to the problem.  There is also something called manual osteopathy, or European-style Osteopathy, which does not involve surgery and thus is not a medical practice. It's more like chiropractic, without the cracking and popping.  I don't see any such program with DEAC or RA accredidation inthe US, however. Internationally, it may be more common.

It is not the same as a Doctor of Osteopathy in the U.S. who goes to an actual medical school and is on par with an MD, just has more specialized training on the bones.

That being said, the American College of Healthcare Science has some very good programs in holistic nutrition, as well as integrative health sciences, the OP happened to pick the ones that might sound the strangest to an average person.

[Kevin.B]

More zany degrees I found:

• Sonoran Desert Institute - Associate's Degrees in guns and drone strikes (https://sdi.edu/programs/associate-degre...echnology/)
  
• Holmes Institute MA Consciousness Studies - includes courses like "The Quantum Doctor"
  
• Viridis Graduate Institute "Doctor of Arts in Ecological Psychology and Environmental Humanities with a Specialization in Regenerative Coaching"
  

One of our members have a SDI Associates!  And for Viridis, I actually recommended that to Supermind a few months after he got his MS Psych from Walden.  It's a unique degree in Ecological Psychology, even though they're NA, I thought they had a good course list in the subject matter.

I had a undergrad professor who earned his Art.D in Ecopsycology from Viridis. He talked highly of the program. I looked into it; it looks like a good degree program.

[nykorn]

I lived in Sweden, naprapathy is extremely common and normal there, and entirely covered by normal insurance. They basically tell you to do stretching exercises and fix your posture so you don't get Computer Neck. I was referred to one by the normal doctor because the medicine I was given had the odd side effect of stiffening all my muscles to the point of pain (in the end I just quit the medicine). The one I went to was extremely knowledgeable about the human body and very professional.

Aromatherapy turned into a "real" profession after so many people lost their sense of smell from getting infected by COVID. People had doctors ordering them to go to aromatherapy and articles claimed you could "retrain your nose" by frequently smelling different smells. Last I heard, they had developed a surgery to get more air to the back of the nose (or something) which returned people's sense of smell, so maybe aromatherapy is on the out.