Open units are units which are outside of a student's subject discipline(s) that are available in many undergraduate programmes (subject to space and timetabling constraints). Typically these units are interdisciplinary and do not have any pre- or co-requisites. Single honours undergraduate students are normally able to choose up to 20 credit points of open units.
The University has developed a number of thematic, interdisciplinary "Bristol Futures" open units which deal with issues and themes of current importance. Details of these units are available here including video trailers for some of the units. Specific details about each unit is available below. The Bristol Futures optional units are:
City Futures: Migration, Citizenship, and Planetary Change
Creative Futures: Tools for Changing the World
Decolonise the Future!
Science of Happiness
Sustainable Development
Understanding global problems using data: inequality, climate change and the economy
The open units scheme also includes the University Wide Language Programme units. Details of these are available here as well as specific information about each unit below.
It is possible that open units appearing on this list will be unavailable if capacity has been taken up by students taking it as an optional unit.
What do the teaching blocks (TB) mean?
| A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Other Top | ||
| Academic Listening and Speaking | LANG10007 | 10 |
| Academic Reading and Writing | LANG10008 | 10 |
| Advanced English Language Studies | LANG14011 | 20 |
| Approaches to Poetry | ENGL10026 | 20 |
| A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Other Top | ||
| City Futures: Migration, Citizenship, and Planetary Change | UNIV10005 | 20 |
| Classics of European Cinema | MODL10010 | 20 |
| Comparative Government and Politics: An Introduction | POLI11103 | 20 |
| Comparative and International Social Policy | SPOL10014 | 20 |
| Critical Concepts in the Study of the Hispanic World | HISP10010 | 20 |
| A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Other Top | ||
| Fundamentals of Body Function | PHPH10014 | 20 |
| A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Other Top | ||
| Galaxies and the Universe | PHYS11500 | 20 |
| Greek Language Level A2 | CLAS12312 | 20 |
| Greek Language Level B2 | CLAS12316 | 20 |
| A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Other Top | ||
| Historical Studies II : Western Art Music (1750 to the present day) | MUSI10046 | 20 |
| Historical Survey: Ancient Rome | CLAS10036 | 20 |
| How to be Creative | UNIV10004 | 20 |
| A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Other Top | ||
| Inequality, Crisis and Prosperity: How to Make Sense of the Global Economy | UNIV10003 | 20 |
| Introduction to Biological Psychology | PSYC10009 | 10 |
| Introduction to Developmental Psychology | PSYC10008 | 10 |
| Introduction to Early-Modern Art | HART10216 | 20 |
| Introduction to Russian Literature | RUSS10037 | 20 |
| Introduction to Sanskrit II: Texts | THRS10018 | 20 |
| Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language | LANG10120 | 20 |
| Introduction to the Study of Cultures | MODL10011 | 20 |
| A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Other Top | ||
| Key Social Thinkers | SOCI10006 | 20 |
| A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Other Top | ||
| Language and Power: Introductions to German History | GERM10039 | 20 |
| Latin Language Level B2 | CLAS12308 | 20 |
| Living Religions East | THRS10065 | 20 |
| A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Other Top | ||
| Modern German Thought and Thinkers | GERM10038 | 20 |
| Modern Italy | ITAL10033 | 20 |
| A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Other Top | ||
| Segregation and inequality in the UK (measurement and debate) | SPOL10017 | 20 |
| Sustainable Development | UNIV10001 | 20 |
| A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Other Top | ||
| The Medieval World | HIST10042 | 20 |
| Thought | CLAS10040 | 20 |
