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DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2025/2026

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Degree Programme Table: Design Informatics (MA (eca)) (PTMARTDESI1F)

Jump to: Year 1

Year 1 Academic year: 2025/26, Starting in: September

Notes:
This programme is currently under review. Please note that programme structure and course availability is subject to change.

Alternative relevant option courses to those listed below may be substituted with the written permission of the Programme Director.

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses
Histories and Futures of Technology

Must be taken during Semester 1

DESI11073 20 credits
Case Studies in Design Informatics 1

Must be taken during Semester 1

INFR11094 20 credits
Data Science for Design

Must be taken during Semester 1

DESI11100 20 credits
Design with Data

Must be taken during Semester 2

DESI11025 20 credits
Dissertation (Design, Context & Communication)

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

DESI11028 60 credits

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 40 credits in this group.

Design Informatics

Select between 0 and 40 credits of the following courses
Selected courses must be taken during Semester 2
Design Informatics Project
DESI11026 20 credits
Disseminating Design Practices
DESI11099 20 credits
Body, Identity and Technology
DESI11176 20 credits
AND

Level 10 and 11 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W

Select between 0 and 40 credits from Level 10 and 11 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W
Notes:
In addition to the above table, other Level 10 and 11 courses not limited to those listed below, but available in the wider UoE course catalogue that comply with individual timetable requirements, may be possible to attend. This is dependent on explicit approval of the student's Programme Director, and the Course Organiser in question where stated as a requirement, subject to availability.

Please note - PGT students are only permitted to take up to 20 credits of Level 10 courses in total across a programme of study, as per the University Taught Assessment Regulations. This means that at least 20 credits of the chosen electives must consist of Level 11 courses.


DESI11178 Media and Culture (20 credits)
ARCH11006 Digital Media Studio Project (20 credits)
DESI11183 Digital Playgrounds for the Online Public (20 credits)
DESI11196 Global Design Culture (20 credits)

PGSP11467 Controversies in the Data Society (20 credits)
PGSP11466 Issues and Concepts in Digital Society (20 credits)
PGSP11400 Innovation in Sustainable Food Systems (20 credits)
SCIL11029 Researching Global Social Change (20 credits)
PGSP11573 Digital Global Development (20 credits)

CMSE11202 Innovation-driven Entrepreneurship (10 credits)
CMSE11440 Blockchain, Governance and Policy (10 credits)
EFIE11010 Digital Influence (10 credits)
EFIE11412 Experience Prototyping (10 credits)
INFR11141 The Human Factor: Working with Users (10 credits)

Courses requiring previous experience and approval from respective course organiser:
ARCH11010 Interactive Sound Environments (20 credits)
DESI11182 Game Design Studio (20 credits)
Selected courses must be taken during Semester 2
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