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DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2025/2026

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

Notes:
All Ecological Economics students must take 80 credits of compulsory courses and the 60-credit research dissertation. You will be auto-enrolled in these courses.

Students have an additional 40 credits of optional courses. We recommend you divide these credits evenly between semester 1 and 2. To help you navigate the list of courses available, your Programme Directors have gone through the list and have identified those that they think are most likely to be of interest to Ecological Economics students. They have further classified them according to some broad themes.

Your Student Advisor will contact you to collect your preferences for optional courses.

Please be aware that the optional courses listed on this degree programme timetable may be subject to closure or changes at short notice, and do have caps that limit the number of students who can take them. There may be additional requirements students may need to meet to be eligible to enrol in a particular course.

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 20 credits in this group.

Courses from School(s) N - Ecological Economics (SAC) (MSc) (Full-time) Recommended Semester One Options - Level(s) 11

Select between 0 and 20 credits of the following courses
Notes:
These courses are recommended SEMESTER ONE options for the MSc in Ecological Economics. You must pick 20 credits from the choices below.

Category 1: For students who have not studied any environmental/ecological systems at the university level, we recommend you consider one of these:
-- Atmospheric Quality and Global Change PGGE11007
-- Ecosystems and Global Change PGGE11247
-- Environmental Survey and Monitoring PGGE11263
-- Marine Ecosystems and Policies PGGE11254
-- Soil Protection and Management PGGE11183

Category 2: For students who have not studied any social sciences, policy, or development issues at the university level, we recommend you consider one of these:
-- Development and Justice PGGE11295
-- Environmental Justice and Development PGGE11294
-- Values and the Environment PGGE11114
-- Economic Issues in Public Policy PGSP11246

Category 3: For students who wish to combine Ecological Economics with the study of food systems, we recommend you consider:
-- Frameworks to Assess Food Security PGGE11164

Category 4: For students who wish to combine Ecological Economics with a circular economy theme, we recommend you consider:
-- Resource Recovery and Circular Economy PGGE11300

Category 5: For students who wish to focus on sustainability, we recommend you consider:
-- Sustainable Marine Development PGGE11253
OR

Courses from School(s) N - Ecological Economics (SAC) (MSc) (Full-time) Additional Semester One Options - Level(s) 11

Select between 0 and 20 credits of the following courses
AND

Group B

Select exactly 20 credits in this group.

Courses from School(s) N - Ecological Economics (SAC) (MSc) (Full-time) Recommended Semester Two Options - Level(s) 11

Select between 0 and 20 credits of the following courses
Notes:
These courses are recommended SEMESTER TWO options for the MSc in Ecological Economics. You must pick 20 credits from the choices below.

Category 1: For students who wish to develop more their understanding of ecosystems, we recommend you consider one of these:
-- PGGE11250 Introduction to Environmental Modelling
-- PGGE11231 Corals in a Changing Ocean
-- PGGE11260 Polar Oceans: Science and Policy
-- PGGE11265 Nature-based Solutions

Category 2: For students who wish to continue developing social science or policy expertise, we recommend you consider one of these:
-- PGGE11257 Environmental Governance and Policy
-- PGGE11305 Public Participation in Policy
-- PGGE11276 Social Movements and the Environment
-- VESC11260 Making Science Relevant to Policy and Decision-making, ONLINE course

Category 3: For students who wish to combine Ecological Economics with a focus on development issues, we recommend you consider one of these:
-- PGGE11267 Professional Skills in Environment & Development
-- PGGE11276 Social Movements and the Environment

Category 4: For students who wish to combine Ecological Economics with the study of food systems, we recommend you consider:
-- PGGE11165 Sustainability of Food Production

Category 5: For students who wish to combine Ecological Economics with a circular economy theme, we recommend you consider:
-- PGGE11262 Circular Economy Principles and Practices

Category 6: For students who wish to gain skills related to data analysis, we recommend you consider one of these:
-- PGGE11272 GIS and Spatial Analytics for Health
-- PGGE11239 Visual Analytics

Category 7: For students who wish to focus on sustainability, we recommend you consider one of these:
-- PGGE11192 Case Studies in Sustainable Development
-- PGGE11265 Nature-based Solutions
-- PGGE11260 Polar Oceans: Science and Policy

Category 8: For students who wish to pursue a specialist topic (defined by the student) of relevance to Ecological Economics, we recommend you consider one of these:
-- PGGE11284 Advanced Topics in Ecological Economics
-- PGGE11270 Student-Led Individually Created Course (SLICC) - Level 11
OR

Courses from School(s) N - Ecological Economics (SAC) (MSc) (Full-time) Additional Semester Two Options - Level(s) 11

Select between 0 and 20 credits of the following courses

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