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Study outside your norm with UCIL

No matter who you are or what you’re studying, UCIL offers a variety of course units you can take as part of your degree.

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Featured online units

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Leadership in Action

How can today’s leaders tackle big issues like climate change, poverty, and disaster relief?
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Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Consider the concepts of privilege, dominance, and power to raise self-awareness and enhance your inclusive leadership potential.
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Trust and Security in a Digital World

What do our digital footprints reveal, and who is trying to exploit them?

Featured blended units

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Communicating with Confidence

This practical and engaging unit aims to provide you with a toolkit of techniques to communicate with impact.
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Philosophy in Action

Examine the ways in which Philosophy engages with the important social, moral, religious, and aesthetic issues of our time.
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Visualising Information

Learn to recognise and critique oversimplifying, biased, or misleading forms of visual representation and create your own visualisations.

Featured face to face units

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Crisis of Nature

Untangle the narratives that led to the emergence of the 'environment' as an object worth protecting.
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In Frankenstein's Foosteps

How does science fiction reflect and influence cultural views on science, tech, and the future?
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Entrepreneur: Innovator and Risk-taker

Learn to recognise business opportunities and how you can evaluate them.