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DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2025/2026

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Degree Programme Table: Interdisciplinary Futures (MA) (UTMAHINTFU1F)

Jump to: Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4

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

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses
Researching Global Challenges 1

Must be passed and taken during Full Year

EFIE07001 20 credits
Reflections on Interdisciplinary Practice 1: Foundations

Must be passed and taken during Full Year

EFIE07003 20 credits
Students as Change Agents

Must be passed and taken during Semester 2

EFIE08003 20 credits

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 60 credits in this group.

EFI Pre-Honours UG Optional Course Collection

Select between 0 and 60 credits of the following courses
Currents: Understanding and addressing global challenges
EFIE08001 20 credits
Creating Edinburgh: The Interdisciplinary City
EFIE08002 20 credits
Ethics and Politics of Data
EFIE08004 20 credits
Sustainable Development Goals: History, Progress and Beyond 2030
EFIE08008 20 credits
AND

Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, S, T, W and Y

Select between 0 and 60 credits from Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, S, T, W and Y
AND

Healthy Eating for People and Planet

Select between 0 and 20 credits of the following courses
Healthy Eating for People and Planet
VETS08016 20 credits

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

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses
Researching Global Challenges 2

Must be passed and taken during Full Year

EFIE08005 20 credits
Reflections on Interdisciplinary Practice 2: Growing Confidence

Must be passed and taken during Full Year

EFIE08007 20 credits
EFI Change Agents

Must be passed and taken during Full Year

EFIE08006 20 credits

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 60 credits in this group.

EFI Pre-Honours UG Optional Course Collection

Select between 0 and 60 credits of the following courses
Currents: Understanding and addressing global challenges
EFIE08001 20 credits
Creating Edinburgh: The Interdisciplinary City
EFIE08002 20 credits
Ethics and Politics of Data
EFIE08004 20 credits
Sustainable Development Goals: History, Progress and Beyond 2030
EFIE08008 20 credits
AND

Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, S, T, W and Y

Select between 0 and 60 credits from Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, S, T, W and Y
AND

Healthy Eating for People and Planet

Select between 0 and 20 credits of the following courses
Healthy Eating for People and Planet
VETS08016 20 credits

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

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses
Interdisciplinary Research

Must be passed and taken during Full Year

EFIE09002 40 credits
Reflections on Interdisciplinary Practice 3: Comparing and Critiquing

Must be passed and taken during Full Year

EFIE09001 20 credits

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 60 credits in this group.

EFI Honours Optional Course Collection

Select between 0 and 60 credits of the following courses
Making Creative Futures
EFIE10003 20 credits
REALITIES in Health Disparities
EFIE10004 20 credits
Introduction to Futures Thinking and Futures Methods
EFIE10005 20 credits
Conflict, Peacebuilding and Religion
EFIE10006 20 credits
AND

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

Select exactly 60 credits from Level 10 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W

Year 4 Academic year: 2025/26, Starting in: August

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses
Reflections on Interdisciplinary Practice 4: Creating Interdisciplinary Futures

Must be passed and taken during Full Year

EFIE10001 20 credits
Capstone Project

Must be passed and taken during Full Year

EFIE10002 40 credits

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 60 credits in this group.

EFI Honours Optional Course Collection

Select between 0 and 60 credits of the following courses
Making Creative Futures
EFIE10003 20 credits
REALITIES in Health Disparities
EFIE10004 20 credits
Introduction to Futures Thinking and Futures Methods
EFIE10005 20 credits
Conflict, Peacebuilding and Religion
EFIE10006 20 credits
AND

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

Select exactly 60 credits from Level 10 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W
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