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DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2026/2027

Draft Edition - Due to be published Thursday 9th April 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: 2026/27, 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
AND

Challenge Courses: Engaging with complex problems through interdisciplinary collaboration

Select between 0 and 60 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Challenge Courses are designed to bring together students from different degree programmes to explore the complex issues facing the world today through interdisciplinary collaboration and creative thinking.

Working with each other and expert academics, students will gain new perspectives and develop important life skills highly valued by employers, such as teamwork, problem-solving and adaptability.
Our Changing World
BIME08006 20 credits
Sustainability and Social Responsibility (UG)
EDUA08116 20 credits
Wicked problems: Reason and Rhetoric
EDUA08126 20 credits
Understanding decolonisation in a globalised world
EDUA08127 20 credits
Sustainable Development Goals: History, Progress and Beyond 2030
EFIE08008 20 credits
Living in the Anthropocene
GESC08004 20 credits
Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World
SSPS08012 20 credits
Healthy Eating for People and Planet
VETS08016 20 credits
AND

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

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

Year 2 Academic year: 2026/27, 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
AND

Challenge Courses: Engaging with complex problems through interdisciplinary collaboration

Select between 0 and 60 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Challenge Courses are designed to bring together students from different degree programmes to explore the complex issues facing the world today through interdisciplinary collaboration and creative thinking.

Working with each other and expert academics, students will gain new perspectives and develop important life skills highly valued by employers, such as teamwork, problem-solving and adaptability.
Our Changing World
BIME08006 20 credits
Sustainability and Social Responsibility (UG)
EDUA08116 20 credits
Wicked problems: Reason and Rhetoric
EDUA08126 20 credits
Understanding decolonisation in a globalised world
EDUA08127 20 credits
Sustainable Development Goals: History, Progress and Beyond 2030
EFIE08008 20 credits
Living in the Anthropocene
GESC08004 20 credits
Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World
SSPS08012 20 credits
Healthy Eating for People and Planet
VETS08016 20 credits
AND

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

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

Year 3 Academic year: 2026/27, 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 Undergraduate Honours Optional Course Collection

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

EFI Undergraduate Honours Curated Collection - Optional Courses from Other Schools

Select between 0 and 60 credits of the following courses
Behavioural Economics
ECNM10066 20 credits
Climate Change and Environmental Economics
ECNM10114 20 credits
The Indigenous Cinematic: Shifting perspectives on Indigenous film in Abiayala/Latin America
ELCH10083 20 credits
A Nordic Model for the 21st Century? Identity, Colonialism and Politics in Contemporary Nordic Society
ELCS10043 20 credits
Unfolding Afghanistan in a Globalised Context
IMES10110 20 credits
Social Determinants of Health and Public Policy
IPHP10001 20 credits
Global Legal Histories
LAWS10243 20 credits
Strategic Decision-Making: Game Theory and the Law
LAWS10273 20 credits
Homeless and Inclusion Health: Global Challenges; Local Perspectives
NUST10051 20 credits
Social & Political Movements: Theory and Practice
SCIL10047 20 credits
Migration: social origins and social consequences
SCIL10068 20 credits
Contemporary Feminist Debates
SSPS10001 20 credits
The Internet and Society
STIS10001 20 credits
Controversies in Medicine, Technology and the Environment
STIS10009 20 credits
Knowledge, Expertise and Policy
STIS10010 20 credits
AND

Level 9 and 10 courses in Schedules A to S and W

Select between 0 and 60 credits from Level 9 and 10 courses in Schedules A to S and W

Year 4 Academic year: 2026/27, 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 Undergraduate Honours Optional Course Collection

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

EFI Undergraduate Honours Curated Collection - Optional Courses from Other Schools

Select between 0 and 60 credits of the following courses
Behavioural Economics
ECNM10066 20 credits
Climate Change and Environmental Economics
ECNM10114 20 credits
The Indigenous Cinematic: Shifting perspectives on Indigenous film in Abiayala/Latin America
ELCH10083 20 credits
A Nordic Model for the 21st Century? Identity, Colonialism and Politics in Contemporary Nordic Society
ELCS10043 20 credits
Unfolding Afghanistan in a Globalised Context
IMES10110 20 credits
Social Determinants of Health and Public Policy
IPHP10001 20 credits
Global Legal Histories
LAWS10243 20 credits
Strategic Decision-Making: Game Theory and the Law
LAWS10273 20 credits
Homeless and Inclusion Health: Global Challenges; Local Perspectives
NUST10051 20 credits
Social & Political Movements: Theory and Practice
SCIL10047 20 credits
Migration: social origins and social consequences
SCIL10068 20 credits
Contemporary Feminist Debates
SSPS10001 20 credits
The Internet and Society
STIS10001 20 credits
Controversies in Medicine, Technology and the Environment
STIS10009 20 credits
Knowledge, Expertise and Policy
STIS10010 20 credits
AND

Level 9 and 10 courses in Schedules A to S and W

Select between 0 and 60 credits from Level 9 and 10 courses in Schedules A to S and W
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