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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 Circular Economy (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) 30 credits of programme compulsory core courses*:

- Fundamentals of a Circular Economy
- Designing for a Circular Economy
- Circular Economy in Business

Please Note: As a continuing part-time student, you may be offered alternative arrangements for any programme compulsory core courses you did not study in Year 1 of your programme. Please contact your Programme Director if you have any queries.

b) 40-50 credits of EFI Shared Core courses:

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

Please Note: As a continuing part-time student, you may be offered alternative arrangements for any Shared Core courses you did not study in Year 1 of your programme. Please contact your Programme Director if you have any queries.

c) 40-50 credits of optional courses. These must include:

- A minimum of 20 credits of programme specific optional courses.
- Up to 20-30 credits of EFI portfolio optional courses.

d) 60 credits of programme core final project courses:

- Knowledge Integration and Project Planning: Circular Economy
- Futures Project: Circular Economy

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 90 credits in this group.

Circular Economy (fusion online) - Compulsory Course Collection

Select exactly 90 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.

Please Note:
As a continuing part-time student, you may be offered alternative arrangements for any programme compulsory core courses you did not study in Year 1 of your programme. Please contact your Programme Director if you have any queries.
AND

Group C

Select between 40 and 50 credits in this group.

Circular Economy (fusion online) - Programme Optional Course Collection

Select between 20 and 40 credits of the following courses
AND

Group B

Select exactly credits in this group.

Edinburgh Futures Institute Level 11 courses

Select between 0 and 30 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 between 40 and 50 credits in this group.

EFI Shared Core Compulsory Course Collection - Circular Economy

Select exactly 20 credits of the following courses
AND

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

Select between 10 and 20 credits of the following courses
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 Circular Economy (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) 30 credits of programme compulsory core courses*:

- Fundamentals of a Circular Economy
- Designing for a Circular Economy
- Circular Economy in Business

Please Note: As a continuing part-time student, you may be offered alternative arrangements for any programme compulsory core courses you did not study in Year 1 of your programme. Please contact your Programme Director if you have any queries.

b) 40-50 credits of EFI Shared Core courses:

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

Please Note: As a continuing part-time student, you may be offered alternative arrangements for any Shared Core courses you did not study in Year 1 of your programme. Please contact your Programme Director if you have any queries.

c) 40-50 credits of optional courses. These must include:

- A minimum of 20 credits of programme specific optional courses.
- Up to 20-30 credits of EFI portfolio optional courses.

d) 60 credits of programme core final project courses:

- Knowledge Integration and Project Planning: Circular Economy
- Futures Project: Circular Economy

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 90 credits in this group.

Circular Economy (fusion online) - Compulsory Course Collection

Select exactly 90 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.

Please Note:
As a continuing part-time student, you may be offered alternative arrangements for any programme compulsory core courses you did not study in Year 1 of your programme. Please contact your Programme Director if you have any queries.
AND

Group C

Select between 40 and 50 credits in this group.

Circular Economy (fusion online) - Programme Optional Course Collection

Select between 20 and 40 credits of the following courses
AND

Group B

Select exactly credits in this group.

Edinburgh Futures Institute Level 11 courses

Select between 0 and 30 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 between 40 and 50 credits in this group.

EFI Shared Core Compulsory Course Collection - Circular Economy

Select exactly 20 credits of the following courses
AND

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

Select between 10 and 20 credits of the following courses
AND

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

Select exactly 10 credits of the following courses

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