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    • Digital Society: Your Place in a Networked World
    • Entrepreneur: Innovator and Risk-taker
    • Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
    • Essential Enterprise
    • From Cholera to COVID-19: A Global History of Epidemics
    • From Sherlock to CSI: A History of Forensic Science and Medicine
    • In Frankenstein's Footsteps: Science Fiction in Literature and Film
    • Introduction to Sports Business: Innovation, Marketing Strategy and Sustainability
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    • Language Mind and Brain
    • Language Mind and Brain Online
    • Leadership in Action
    • Leadership of Learning with Teaching Placement
    • LEAP British Sign Language
    • Madness and Society in the Modern Age
    • Medicine and the Media
    • On Creativity: Practices and Perspectives
    • Philosophy in Action: Philosophical Approaches to the Big Problems of our Time
    • Programming: What? Why? How?
    • Science, Technology and Democracy
    • The Nuclear Age
    • Trust and Security in a Digital World: From Fake News to Cybercriminals
    • Understanding Mental Health
    • Visualising Information
    • Why China Matters
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    • AI: Robot Overlord, Replacement or Colleague?
    • Are We Alone? The Search for Extraterrestrial Life
    • Climate Change and Society
    • Communicating with Confidence
    • Communicating with Confidence (Blended)
    • Crisis of Nature
    • Current Topics in Biology
    • Developing an Entrepreneurial Mindset
    • Digital Society: Your Place in a Networked World
    • Entrepreneur: Innovator and Risk-taker
    • Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
    • Essential Enterprise
    • From Cholera to COVID-19: A Global History of Epidemics
    • From Sherlock to CSI: A History of Forensic Science and Medicine
    • In Frankenstein's Footsteps: Science Fiction in Literature and Film
    • Introduction to Sports Business: Innovation, Marketing Strategy and Sustainability
    • Language Experiences for all Programmes
    • Language Mind and Brain
    • Language Mind and Brain Online
    • Leadership in Action
    • Leadership of Learning with Teaching Placement
    • LEAP British Sign Language
    • Madness and Society in the Modern Age
    • Medicine and the Media
    • On Creativity: Practices and Perspectives
    • Philosophy in Action: Philosophical Approaches to the Big Problems of our Time
    • Programming: What? Why? How?
    • Science, Technology and Democracy
    • The Nuclear Age
    • Trust and Security in a Digital World: From Fake News to Cybercriminals
    • Understanding Mental Health
    • Visualising Information
    • Why China Matters
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Unit Catalogue

Browse and learn more about the units available to study with UCIL. Units are subject to change for 2025/6 academic year.

Semester

Delivery method

Credits

  • Little humanoid robot

    AI: Robot Overlord, Replacement or Colleague

    • Semester 2
    • UCIL20122
    • Online

    Full details

  • Silhouette of the person looking at a star-filled sky.

    Are We Alone? The Search for Extraterrestrial Life

    • Semester 1
    • UCIL20211
    • Online

    Full details

  • Broken off iceberg in the ocean.

    Climate Change and Society

    • Semester 1
    • UCIL33201 / UCIL33501
    • Face-to-face

    Full details

  • Main speaking confidently with a megaphone.

    Communicating with Confidence

    • Semester 1
    • UCIL21301
    • Face-to-face

    Full details

  • Woman speaking confidently with a megaphone.

    Communicating with Confidence (Blended)

    • Semester 2
    • UCIL21302
    • Blended

    Full details

  • Plastic bag floating in the ocean.

    Crisis of Nature: Issues in Environmental History

    • Semester 2
    • UCIL20092 / UCIL20592
    • Face-to-face

    Full details

  • DNA Molecule

    Current Topics in Biology

    • Semester 2
    • UCIL20882 / UCIL20892
    • Face-to-face

    Full details

  • Woman with a set of light bulbs above her head, one is lit up, representing an idea generated.

    Developing an Entrepreneurial Mindset

    • Semester 1
    • UCIL21331
    • Face-to-face

    Full details

  • Man holding phone with emojis, emails, likes floating from it.

    Digital Society: Your Place in a Networked World

    • Semester 2
    • UCIL26002
    • Online

    Full details

  • Three lightbulbs, one lit up.

    Entrepreneur: Innovator and Risk-taker

    • Semester 2
    • UCIL24002
    • Face-to-face

    Full details

  • Cartoon with various people to signify diversity.

    Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: Your Role in Shaping a Fairer World

    • Semester 2
    • UCIL22302
    • Online

    Full details

  • Woman presenting a business plan.

    Essential Enterprise

    • Semester 1 or 2
    • UCIL22001 / UCIL22002
    • Face-to-face

    Full details

  • Close up of the Coronavirus structure.

    From Cholera to Covid-19: A Global History of Epidemics

    • Semester 1
    • UCIL20331 / UCIL20081
    • Face-to-face

    Full details

  • Magnifying glass looking at a fingerprint.

    From Sherlock Holmes to CSI: A History of Forensic Science and Medicine

    • Semester 1
    • UCIL32011 / UCIL32511
    • Face-to-face

    Full details

  • Frankenstein image with lightning behind.

    In Frankenstein's Footsteps: Science Fiction in Literature and Film

    • Semester 1
    • UCIL20301 / UCIL20801
    • Face-to-face

    Full details

  • Professional basketballer, in the air, passing the ball under his body.

    Introduction to Sports Business: Innovation, Marketing Strategy and Sustainability

    • Semester 2
    • UCIL23002 / UCIL23022
    • Face-to-face

    Full details

  • A cartoon representation of a number of countries flags.

    Language Experience for all programmes

    • Semester 1 or 2
    • Face-to-face

    Full details

  • A model of a person's head with the brain areas labelled.

    Language, Mind and Brain

    • Semester 1
    • UCIL10201
    • Face-to-face

    Full details

  • Puzzle of a brain, with one piece taken out with the English flag, representing the English language.

    Language Mind and Brain (Online)

    • Semester 2
    • UCIL20202
    • Online

    Full details

  • A group of people climbing a mountain at sunset, helping each other to get to the top.

    Leadership in Action

    • Semester 1 or 2
    • UCIL20031 / UCIL20030
    • UCIL20032
    • Online

    Full details

  • Woman in a school, working with students.

    Leadership of Learning with Teaching Placement

    • Semester 1 or 2
    • UCIL20001 / UCIL21001
    • UCIL21002 / UCIL20002
    • Face-to-face

    Full details

  • Image of four people using different sign language signs.

    LEAP British Sign Language

    • Semester 1 or 2
    • ULBS50001/ULBS50002 
    • ULBS51001/ULBS51002
    • Face-to-face

    Full details

  • Black cut out of a person, with a number of scrunched up pieces of paper around their mind, representing mental health difficulties.

    Madness and Society in the Modern Age

    • Semester 2
    • UCIL30832 / UCIL30332
    • Blended

    Full details

  • News clippings with single words relating to epidemics such as coronavirus, health care, worries, panic, social distancing, uncertainty, vaccine.

    Medicine and the Media

    • Semester 2
    • UCIL20712 / UCIL20722
    • Face-to-face

    Full details

  • Digital image of a colourful brain, with a paint explosion, representing creative idea generation.

    On Creativity: Practices and Perspectives

    • Semester 2
    • UCIL21112
    • Online

    Full details

  • Woman pondering life's moral questions.

    Philosophy in Action

    • Semester 2
    • UCIL20162
    • Blended

    Full details

  • Digital image of a computer screen with coding on it, and various icons representing exploring, ideas, how things work and code.

    Programming: What? Why? How?

    • Semester 2
    • UCIL22212
    • Face-to-face

    Full details

  • An image of a scientist working in a big laboratory.

    Science, Technology and Democracy

    • Semester 1
    • UCIL24141 / UCIL24151
    • Online

    Full details

  • Atomic bomb explosion in the desert.

    The Nuclear Age: Global Nuclear Threats from Hiroshima to Today

    • Semester 2
    • UCIL31212 / UCIL31712
    • Blended

    Full details

  • Digital image showing a computer board, with locks on top of it.

    Trust and Security in a Digital World: From Fake News to Cybercriminals

    • Semester 2
    • UCIL20132
    • Online

    Full details

  • Hands holding a cardboard cut out of a human face and brain, with the brain having flowers, leaves on it symbolising mental health.

    Understanding Mental Health

    • Semester 2
    • UCIL20112
    • Online

    Full details

  • Climate stripes representing the changes in the global heat.

    Visualising Information

    • Semester 1
    • UCIL20401 / UCIL20421
    • Blended

    Full details

  • A photo of a number of Chinese balloons with Chinese script on them.

    Why China Matters

    • Semester 1
    • UCIL22601
    • Online

    Full details

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