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Degree Programme Table: Future Infrastructure, Climate Change and Sustainability (MSc) (Fusion On-site) (Part-time) - 2 years (PTMSCFCCOS1P)

Jump to: Year 1, Year 2

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

Notes:
In Year 1, students must study 80 credits.
In Year 2, students must study 100 credits.

Across the 2 years of study, students must take the following courses:

a) 40 credits of the programme compulsory core courses:

- Future Infrastructure Climate Change Challenges (20 credits)
- Future Infrastructure Policy, Innovation and Society (20 credits)

b) 40 credits worth of EFI shared core courses:

- Futures Methods
- Insights Through Data [OR] Text Remix [OR] Understanding the Climate Crisis
- Ethical Data Futures
- Representing Data [OR] Building Near Futures

c) 40 credits of optional courses. These must include:

- A minimum of 20 credits of programme specific optional courses.
- Up to 20 credits of EFI educational portfolio optional courses.

d) 60 credits of the programme compulsory core final project courses:

- Knowledge Integration and Project Planning: Future Infrastructure, Climate Change and Sustainability
- Futures Project: Future Infrastructure, Climate Change and Sustainability

The programme compulsory core courses and the shared core courses introduce students to skills and concepts that will assist them when studying optional courses and the project. Therefore, we encourage students to take the two programme compulsory core courses during Year 1 is possible.

Please aim to ensure that your credits are equally balanced across both semesters in a year. This is to ensure student workload is balanced.

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses
Future Infrastructure Climate Change Challenges (fusion on-site)

Must be taken during Semester 1

EFIE11387 20 credits
Futures Methods (fusion on-site)

Must be taken during Semester 1

EFIE11410 10 credits

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 50 credits in this group.

Future Infrastructure Policy, Innovation and Society (fusion on-site)

Select between 0 and 20 credits of the following courses
Notes:
This is a programme compulsory core course. It may be studied in either Year 1 or Year 2 of the programme.
Selected courses must be taken during Semester 2
Future Infrastructure Policy, Innovation and Society (fusion on-site)
EFIE11390 20 credits
AND

Future Infrastructure, Climate Change and Sustainability (fusion on-site) - Programme Optional Course Collection

Select between 0 and 40 credits of the following courses
Notes:
EFI Postgraduate Taught students must take a minimum of 20 credits (2 courses) from this collection across both years of study.

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. However, we appreciate that this may not always be possible (or preferrable) for part-time students.
Future Food Systems (fusion on-site)
EFIE11296 10 credits
Net Zero Infrastructures (fusion on-site)
EFIE11343 10 credits
Transport and Society (fusion on-site)
EFIE11345 10 credits
Energy and Society (fusion on-site)
EFIE11349 10 credits
Urban Project: An Introduction (fusion on-site)
EFIE11351 10 credits
AND

Edinburgh Futures Institute Level 11 courses

Select between 0 and 20 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.
AND

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

Select between 0 and 10 credits of the following courses
Notes:
For students with no background in climate change/environmental studies, you are strongly recommended to select the course 'Understanding the Climate Crisis' in order to gain critical knowledge underpinning your degree.
Selected courses must be taken during Semester 1
Text Remix (fusion on-site)
EFIE11004 10 credits
Insights Through Data (fusion on-site)
EFIE11025 10 credits
Understanding the Climate Crisis (fusion on-site)
EFIE11145 10 credits
AND

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

Select between 0 and 10 credits of the following courses
Selected courses must be taken during Semester 2
Representing Data (fusion on-site)
EFIE11002 10 credits
Building Near Futures (fusion on-site)
EFIE11029 10 credits
AND

Ethical Data Futures (fusion on-site)

Select between 0 and 10 credits of the following courses
Notes:
This is an EFI shared core compulsory course. It may be studied in either Year 1 or Year 2 of the programme.
Selected courses must be taken during Semester 2
Ethical Data Futures (fusion on-site)
EFIE11027 10 credits

Year 2 Academic year: 2025/26, Starting in: September

Notes:
In Year 1, students must study 80 credits.
In Year 2, students must study 100 credits.

Across the 2 years of study, students must take the following courses:

a) 40 credits of the programme compulsory core courses:

- Future Infrastructure Climate Change Challenges
- Future Infrastructure Policy Innovation

b) 40 credits worth of EFI shared core courses:

- Futures Methods
- Insights Through Data [OR] Text Remix [OR] Understanding the Climate Crisis
- Ethical Data Futures
- Representing Data [OR] Building Near Futures

c) 40 credits of optional courses. These must include:

- A minimum of 20 credits of programme specific optional courses.
- Up to 20 credits of EFI educational portfolio optional courses.

d) 60 credits of the programme compulsory core final project courses:

- Knowledge Integration and Project Planning: Future Infrastructure, Climate Change and Sustainability
- Futures Project: Future Infrastructure, Climate Change and Sustainability

The programme compulsory core courses and the shared core courses introduce students to skills and concepts that will assist them when studying optional courses and the project. Therefore, we encourage students to take the two programme compulsory core courses during Year 1 is possible.

Please aim to ensure that your credits are equally balanced across both semesters in a year. This is to ensure student workload is balanced.

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses
Knowledge Integration and Project Planning: Future Infrastructure, Climate Change and Sustainability (fusion on-site)

Must be passed and taken during Full Year

EFIE11359 20 credits
Futures Project: Future Infrastructure, Climate Change and Sustainability (fusion on-site)

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

EFIE11363 40 credits

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 40 credits in this group.

Future Infrastructure Policy, Innovation and Society (fusion on-site)

Select between 0 and 20 credits of the following courses
Notes:
This is a programme compulsory core course. If you did not study this course in Year 1 of the programme, then you MUST study it in Year 2.
Selected courses must be taken during Semester 2
Future Infrastructure Policy, Innovation and Society (fusion on-site)
EFIE11390 20 credits
AND

Future Infrastructure, Climate Change and Sustainability (fusion on-site) - Programme Optional Course Collection

Select between 0 and 40 credits of the following courses
Notes:
EFI Postgraduate Taught students must take a minimum of 20 credits (2 courses) from this collection across both years of study.

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. However, we appreciate that this may not always be possible (or preferrable) for part-time students.
Future Food Systems (fusion on-site)
EFIE11296 10 credits
Net Zero Infrastructures (fusion on-site)
EFIE11343 10 credits
Transport and Society (fusion on-site)
EFIE11345 10 credits
Energy and Society (fusion on-site)
EFIE11349 10 credits
Urban Project: An Introduction (fusion on-site)
EFIE11351 10 credits
AND

Edinburgh Futures Institute Level 11 courses

Select between 0 and 20 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.
AND

Ethical Data Futures (fusion on-site)

Select between 0 and 10 credits of the following courses
Notes:
This is an EFI shared core compulsory course. If you did not study this course in Year 1 of the programme, then you MUST study it in Year 2.
Selected courses must be taken during Semester 2
Ethical Data Futures (fusion on-site)
EFIE11027 10 credits
AND

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

Select between 0 and 10 credits of the following courses
Notes:
For students with no background in climate change/environmental studies, you are strongly recommended to select the course 'Understanding the Climate Crisis' in order to gain critical knowledge underpinning your degree.

Please note, if you did not study either of these courses in Year 1 of the programme, then you MUST study 1 course (10 credits) in Year 2.
Selected courses must be taken during Semester 1
Text Remix (fusion on-site)
EFIE11004 10 credits
Insights Through Data (fusion on-site)
EFIE11025 10 credits
Understanding the Climate Crisis (fusion on-site)
EFIE11145 10 credits
AND

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

Select between 0 and 10 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Please note, if you did not study either of these courses in Year 1 of the programme, then you MUST study 1 course (10 credits) in Year 2.
Selected courses must be taken during Semester 2
Representing Data (fusion on-site)
EFIE11002 10 credits
Building Near Futures (fusion on-site)
EFIE11029 10 credits
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