THE UNIVERSITY of EDINBURGH

DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2023/2024

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Year 1 Academic year: 2023/24, Starting in: September

Notes:
Please Note:

In order to be eligible for the Service Management and Design (MSc) (fusion on-site), students need to obtain 180 SCQF level 11 credits.

The MSc must be completed within 3 years.

Across the 3 years of study, students must take the following:

a) The 3 programme compulsory core courses (30 credits):

- Introduction to Service Design
- Introduction to Service Management
- Value and Value Creation

b) EFI Shared Core courses (40 credits):

- Interdisciplinary Futures
- Insights Through Data [OR] Text Remix
- Ethical Data Futures
- Representing Data [OR] Building Near Futures

c) A total of 50 credits of electives, which must include a minimum of 20 credits of elective courses from the 'Service Management and Design (fusion on-site) - Programme Optional Course Collection'.

d) The following MSc final project courses MUST be taken in Year 3 (60 credits):

- Knowledge Integration and Project Planning: Service Management and Design
- Futures Project: Service Management and Design

All taught courses must be taken before the MSc final project. Please refer to the EFI Postgraduate Programme Handbook for further information.

The programme compulsory courses and the shared core courses introduce students to skills and concepts that will assist them when studying elective courses and the final project. Therefore, we encourage students to take the two programme compulsory courses, along with the required EFI shared core courses as early as possible .

We would reco mmend that you aim to balance your course credits across the 3 years evenlt. This is to ensure student workload is balanced. However, we appreciate that this may not always be possible (or preferrable) for part-time students.

There are no compulsory courses in this year of this programme.

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 110 credits in this group.

Service Management and Design (fusion on-site) ICL - Compulsory

Select exactly 110 credits of the following courses
AND

Group B

Select exactly 20 credits in this group.

EFI Shared Core Course Collection (fusion on-site) - Semester 1

Select between 0 and 10 credits of the following courses
AND

EFI Shared Core Course Collection (fusion on-site) - Semester 2

Select between 0 and 10 credits of the following courses
AND

Group C

Select exactly 50 credits in this group.

Service Management and Design (fusion on-site) - Programme Optional Course Collection

Select between 20 and 50 credits of the following courses
AND

Edinburgh Futures Institute Level 11 courses

Select between 0 and 30 credits from Edinburgh Futures Institute Level 11 courses
Notes:
Please note that EFI Postgraduate Taught students may only select from courses worth 10-credits within this collection.

Students enrolled on the owning programme of any course will be given priority. Therefore, we cannot always guarantee that you will be successful in gaining a space if student demand is high.

Year 2 Academic year: 2023/24, Starting in: September

Notes:
Please Note:

In order to be eligible for the Service Management and Design (MSc) (fusion on-site), students need to obtain 180 SCQF level 11 credits.

The MSc must be completed within 3 years.

Across the 3 years of study, students must take the following:

a) The 3 programme compulsory core courses (30 credits):

- Introduction to Service Design
- Introduction to Service Management
- Value and Value Creation

b) EFI Shared Core courses (40 credits):

- Interdisciplinary Futures
- Insights Through Data [OR] Text Remix
- Ethical Data Futures
- Representing Data [OR] Building Near Futures

c) A total of 50 credits of electives, which must include a minimum of 20 credits of elective courses from the 'Service Management and Design (fusion on-site) - Programme Optional Course Collection'.

d) The following MSc final project courses MUST be taken in Year 3 (60 credits):

- Knowledge Integration and Project Planning: Service Management and Design
- Futures Project: Service Management and Design

All taught courses must be taken before the MSc final project. Please refer to the EFI Postgraduate Programme Handbook for further information.

The programme compulsory courses and the shared core courses introduce students to skills and concepts that will assist them when studying elective courses and the final project. Therefore, we encourage students to take the two programme compulsory courses, along with the required EFI shared core courses as early as possible .

We would reco mmend that you aim to balance your course credits across the 3 years evenlt. This is to ensure student workload is balanced. However, we appreciate that this may not always be possible (or preferrable) for part-time students.

There are no compulsory courses in this year of this programme.

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 110 credits in this group.

Service Management and Design (fusion on-site) ICL - Compulsory

Select exactly 110 credits of the following courses
AND

Group B

Select exactly 20 credits in this group.

EFI Shared Core Course Collection (fusion on-site) - Semester 1

Select between 0 and 10 credits of the following courses
AND

EFI Shared Core Course Collection (fusion on-site) - Semester 2

Select between 0 and 10 credits of the following courses
AND

Group C

Select exactly 50 credits in this group.

Service Management and Design (fusion on-site) - Programme Optional Course Collection

Select between 20 and 50 credits of the following courses
AND

Edinburgh Futures Institute Level 11 courses

Select between 0 and 30 credits from Edinburgh Futures Institute Level 11 courses
Notes:
Please note that EFI Postgraduate Taught students may only select from courses worth 10-credits within this collection.

Students enrolled on the owning programme of any course will be given priority. Therefore, we cannot always guarantee that you will be successful in gaining a space if student demand is high.

Year 3 Academic year: 2023/24, Starting in: September

Notes:
Please Note:

In order to be eligible for the Service Management and Design (MSc) (fusion on-site), students need to obtain 180 SCQF level 11 credits.

The MSc must be completed within 3 years.

Across the 3 years of study, students must take the following:

a) The 3 programme compulsory core courses (30 credits):

- Introduction to Service Design
- Introduction to Service Management
- Value and Value Creation

b) EFI Shared Core courses (40 credits):

- Interdisciplinary Futures
- Insights Through Data [OR] Text Remix
- Ethical Data Futures
- Representing Data [OR] Building Near Futures

c) A total of 50 credits of electives, which must include a minimum of 20 credits of elective courses from the 'Service Management and Design (fusion on-site) - Programme Optional Course Collection'.

d) The following MSc final project courses MUST be taken in Year 3 (60 credits):

- Knowledge Integration and Project Planning: Service Management and Design
- Futures Project: Service Management and Design

All taught courses must be taken before the MSc final project. Please refer to the EFI Postgraduate Programme Handbook for further information.

The programme compulsory courses and the shared core courses introduce students to skills and concepts that will assist them when studying elective courses and the final project. Therefore, we encourage students to take the two programme compulsory courses, along with the required EFI shared core courses as early as possible .

We would reco mmend that you aim to balance your course credits across the 3 years evenlt. This is to ensure student workload is balanced. However, we appreciate that this may not always be possible (or preferrable) for part-time students.

There are no compulsory courses in this year of this programme.

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 110 credits in this group.

Service Management and Design (fusion on-site) ICL - Compulsory

Select exactly 110 credits of the following courses
AND

Group B

Select exactly 20 credits in this group.

EFI Shared Core Course Collection (fusion on-site) - Semester 1

Select between 0 and 10 credits of the following courses
AND

EFI Shared Core Course Collection (fusion on-site) - Semester 2

Select between 0 and 10 credits of the following courses
AND

Group C

Select exactly 50 credits in this group.

Service Management and Design (fusion on-site) - Programme Optional Course Collection

Select between 20 and 50 credits of the following courses
AND

Edinburgh Futures Institute Level 11 courses

Select between 0 and 30 credits from Edinburgh Futures Institute Level 11 courses
Notes:
Please note that EFI Postgraduate Taught students may only select from courses worth 10-credits within this collection.

Students enrolled on the owning programme of any course will be given priority. Therefore, we cannot always guarantee that you will be successful in gaining a space if student demand is high.

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