DPT: Planetary Health (Fusion On-site) (Full-time) (MSc) (PTMSCPLHOS1F)

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Year 1 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: September

EFI Shared Core Course Selection Guidance:

- For students with no background in climate change/environmental studies, you MUST select the Semester 1 Shared Core course 'Understanding the Climate Crisis' in order to gain critical knowledge underpinning their degree.

Programme Optional Course Collection Selection Guidance:

- Please note that if you choose to study 2 'Shared Core' courses in Semester 1 (Understanding the Climate Crisis AND Insights Through Data), then you must select 40 credits across the 'Programme Optional Course Collection' and 'Edinburgh Futures Institute Level 11 Courses Collection'.

- If you choose to study 1 'Shared Core' course in Semester 1 (Understanding the Climate Crisis OR Insights Through Data), then you must select 50 credits across the 'Programme Optional Course Collection' and 'Edinburgh Futures Institute Level 11 Courses Collection'.

Compulsory courses

Introduction to Planetary Health (fusion on-site)

Must be taken during Semester 1

Human Health in the Anthropocene (fusion on-site)

Must be taken during Semester 1

Understanding Planetary Health Data (fusion on-site)

Must be taken during Semester 2

Interdisciplinary Futures (fusion on-site)

Must be taken during Semester 1

Ethical Data Futures (fusion on-site)

Must be taken during Semester 2

Knowledge Integration and Project Planning: Planetary Health (fusion on-site)

Must be passed and taken during Full Year

Futures Project: Planetary Health (fusion on-site)

Must be passed at 50% and taken during Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond

Course options

For students with no background in climate change/environmental studies, you MUST select the course 'Understanding the Climate Crisis' in order to gain critical knowledge underpinning their degree.

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 1

Insights Through Data (fusion on-site)

Understanding the Climate Crisis (fusion on-site)

AND

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 2

Representing Data (fusion on-site)

Building Near Futures (fusion on-site)

AND

EFI Postgraduate Taught students must take a minimum of 20 credits (2 courses) from this collection.

Any course may only be taken once.

We would recommend that course credits should be equally split across semesters 1 and 2. This is to support students in managing an equal workload balance during their studies.

Global Governance of the Health-Environment Nexus (fusion on-site)

Mental Health in the Anthropocene (fusion on-site)

Trauma and Resilience (fusion on-site)

Changing Climate, Changing Health (fusion on-site)

Transforming Economies: A Wellbeing Economy Agenda (fusion on-site)

Future Food Systems (fusion on-site)

AND

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.

Students who are studying in the UK by means of a Student Visa must study all courses in-person and on-site.

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Degree Programme Table: Planetary Health (Fusion On-site) (Full-time) (MSc) (PTMSCPLHOS1F)

Year 1 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: September

Compulsory courses

Course options

Group A

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

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

Group B

Planetary Health (fusion on-site) - Programme Optional Course Collection

Edinburgh Futures Institute Level 11 courses