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Try something new 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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Enrolments are now closed

UCIL enrolments for the 2025/26 academic year closed on 13 February 2026.

Enrolments for 2026/27 will reopen in summer 2026, so keep an eye out for updates and get ready to choose your next unit.

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Featured online units

Leadership in Action

Leadership in Action

How can today’s leaders tackle big issues like climate change, poverty, and disaster relief?
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Trust and Security in a Digital World

Explore security risks in a super-connected, data-driven world and protect digital trust.
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI).

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Challenge your beliefs, attitudes and assumptions as you explore your role in shaping a fairer world.

Featured blended units

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Communicating with Confidence

This practical, engaging unit offers a toolkit of techniques to help you communicate with impact.
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Philosophy in Action

Examine how philosophy engages with social, moral, religious and aesthetic issues of our time.
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The Nuclear Age

Understand the impact of nuclear weapons on global politics, history and culture.

Featured face-to-face units

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Essential Enterprise

Start to think like a business professional.
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Biology for Curious Minds

Discover the biomedical and biological science behind the headlines.
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Medicine and the Media

How does the media represent medical and health issues and does this impact our lives?