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DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2025/2026

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

Notes:
In order to be eligible for the Future Infrastructure, Climate Change and Sustainability (MSc) (fusion on-site), students need to obtain 180 SCQF level 11 credits.

The MSc must be completed within 3 years.

Across the 3 years of study, students must take the following:

a) 40 credits of programme compulsory core courses:

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

b) 40 credits 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

*Please note that the EFI Shared Core courses are currently undergoing a redesign process. As such, some information may change in advance of the 2026/7 academic year.

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 programme 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 final project. Therefore, we encourage students to take the two programme compulsory core courses during Year 1 if possible.

We would recommend that you aim to balance your course credits across the 3 years evenly. This is to ensure student workload is balanced. However, we appreciate that this may not always be possible (or preferrable) for part-time students.

All taught courses must be taken before the MSc final project.

There are no compulsory courses in this year of this programme.

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 120 credits in this group.

Future Infrastructures, Climate Change and Sustainability (fusion on-site) - Compulsory Course Collection

Select exactly 120 credits of the following courses
Notes:
You must take these courses before the end of your 3-year period of study.

The 'Knowledge Integration and Project Planning' and 'Futures Project' courses must be taken in Year 3 of your programme.
AND

Group B

Select exactly 40 credits in this group.

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

Select between 20 and 40 credits of the following courses
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

Group C

Select exactly 20 credits in this group.

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

Select exactly 10 credits of the following courses
Notes:
For students with no background in climate change/environmental studies, it is recommended that you select the course 'Understanding the Climate Crisis' in order to gain critical knowledge underpinning your degree.
AND

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

Select exactly 10 credits of the following courses

Year 3 Academic year: 2025/26, Starting in: September

Notes:
In order to be eligible for the Future Infrastructure, Climate Change and Sustainability (MSc) (fusion on-site), students need to obtain 180 SCQF level 11 credits.

The MSc must be completed within 3 years.

Across the 3 years of study, students must take the following:

a) 40 credits of programme compulsory core courses:

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

b) 40 credits 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

*Please note that the EFI Shared Core courses are currently undergoing a redesign process. As such, some information may change in advance of the 2026/7 academic year.

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 programme 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 final project. Therefore, we encourage students to take the two programme compulsory core courses during Year 1 if possible.

We would recommend that you aim to balance your course credits across the 3 years evenly. This is to ensure student workload is balanced. However, we appreciate that this may not always be possible (or preferrable) for part-time students.

All taught courses must be taken before the MSc final project.

There are no compulsory courses in this year of this programme.

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 120 credits in this group.

Future Infrastructures, Climate Change and Sustainability (fusion on-site) - Compulsory Course Collection

Select exactly 120 credits of the following courses
Notes:
You must take these courses before the end of your 3-year period of study.

The 'Knowledge Integration and Project Planning' and 'Futures Project' courses must be taken in Year 3 of your programme.
AND

Group B

Select exactly 40 credits in this group.

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

Select between 20 and 40 credits of the following courses
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

Group C

Select exactly 20 credits in this group.

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

Select exactly 10 credits of the following courses
Notes:
For students with no background in climate change/environmental studies, it is recommended that you select the course 'Understanding the Climate Crisis' in order to gain critical knowledge underpinning your degree.
AND

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

Select exactly 10 credits of the following courses

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