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DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2025/2026

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

In order to be eligible for the generic Award of Interdisciplinary Futures (PG Diploma) students need to obtain 120 SCQF level 11 credits.

In order to be eligible for the Cultural Heritage Futures (PG Diploma) (fusion on-site), students need to obtain 120 SCQF level 11 credits AND must take the following courses:

a) 20 credits of programme compulsory core courses.
b) 40 credits of EFI shared core courses.
c) 60 credits of optional courses.*

*A minimum of 20 credits must be selected from the programme optional course collection. The remaining 40 credits may be selected from the EFI educational portfolio.

The PG Diploma must be completed within 2 years.

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

Course options

Critical Heritage: Politics of the Past (fusion on-site)

Heritage Practice and Global Challenges (fusion on-site)

AND

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.

Students who are studying in the UK by means of a Student Visa must study all courses in-person and on-site.

AND

Heritage Data Activism (fusion on-site)

Heritage Places, Policies and Diplomacies (fusion on-site)

Video Games and XR for Inclusive Heritages (fusion on-site)

Sensing the Past: Intimacy and Heritage as an Ethical Practice (fusion on-site)

Future Library and Archive Collections (fusion on-site)

Heritage Environments and Climate Change (fusion on-site)

Wikipedia and the Past (fusion on-site)

Biocultural Heritage for Just and Sustainable Futures (fusion on-site)

AND

Ethical Data Futures (fusion on-site)

Futures Methods (fusion on-site)

AND

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 1

Text Remix (fusion on-site)

Insights Through Data (fusion on-site)

AND

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 2

Representing Data (fusion on-site)

Building Near Futures (fusion on-site)

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

In order to be eligible for the generic Award of Interdisciplinary Futures (PG Diploma) students need to obtain 120 SCQF level 11 credits.

In order to be eligible for the Cultural Heritage Futures (PG Diploma) (fusion on-site), students need to obtain 120 SCQF level 11 credits AND must take the following courses:

a) 20 credits of programme compulsory core courses.
b) 40 credits of EFI shared core courses.
c) 60 credits of optional courses.*

*A minimum of 20 credits must be selected from the programme optional course collection. The remaining 40 credits may be selected from the EFI educational portfolio.

The PG Diploma must be completed within 2 years.

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

Course options

Critical Heritage: Politics of the Past (fusion on-site)

Heritage Practice and Global Challenges (fusion on-site)

AND

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.

Students who are studying in the UK by means of a Student Visa must study all courses in-person and on-site.

AND

Heritage Data Activism (fusion on-site)

Heritage Places, Policies and Diplomacies (fusion on-site)

Video Games and XR for Inclusive Heritages (fusion on-site)

Sensing the Past: Intimacy and Heritage as an Ethical Practice (fusion on-site)

Future Library and Archive Collections (fusion on-site)

Heritage Environments and Climate Change (fusion on-site)

Wikipedia and the Past (fusion on-site)

Biocultural Heritage for Just and Sustainable Futures (fusion on-site)

AND

Ethical Data Futures (fusion on-site)

Futures Methods (fusion on-site)

AND

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 1

Text Remix (fusion on-site)

Insights Through Data (fusion on-site)

AND

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 2

Representing Data (fusion on-site)

Building Near Futures (fusion on-site)

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