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DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2024/2025

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

Not all electives may run in a given year and places may be limited.

Compulsory courses

Science, Knowledge and Expertise

Innovation Systems and Risk Management

Course options

Students should take 40 credits of these courses across the 2 year programme (one course in each year of study).

Energy Policy and Politics (20 credits)

Innovation in Sustainable Food Systems

OR

Students should take 40 credits of these courses across the 2 year programme (one course in each year of study).

Biobusiness

Social Dimensions of Systems and Synthetic Biology

OR

Students should take 40 credits of these courses across the 2 year programme (one course in each year of study).

Internet, Society and Economy

Controversies in the Data Society

Year 2 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: September

Not all electives may run in a given year and places may be limited.

Students will have an opportunity to apply for a Placement-Based Dissertation in Semester 2. For more information please see here: http://www.drps.ed.ac.uk/24-25/dpt/cxpgsp11547.htm

Compulsory courses

Understanding Technology

Dissertation (MSc Science and Technology in Society

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

Course options

Students should take 40 credits of these courses across the 2 year programme (one course in each year of study).

Energy Policy and Politics (20 credits)

Innovation in Sustainable Food Systems

OR

Students should take 40 credits of these courses across the 2 year programme (one course in each year of study).

Biobusiness

Social Dimensions of Systems and Synthetic Biology

OR

Students should take 40 credits of these courses across the 2 year programme (one course in each year of study).

Internet, Society and Economy

Controversies in the Data Society

AND

Internet, Society and Economy

Energy Policy and Politics (20 credits)

Biobusiness

Innovation in Sustainable Food Systems

Social Dimensions of Systems and Synthetic Biology

Research Design for Societal Challenges

Social Dimensions of Astrobiology and Space Exploration

Data, Sport & Society

OR

Courses in this collection can only be taken with permission from the Programme Director and the Course Organiser.

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