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 | ||
| African narratives of migration | FREN30039 | 20 |
| After The Wall: Remembering the GDR | GERM32060 | 20 |
| American Art: Art and Identity (Lecture Response Unit) | HART30026 | 20 |
| Ancient Jewish Novels | THRS30071 | 20 |
| Art and Memory (Level H Lecture Response Unit) | HART30041 | 20 |
| Art in Russia and the Soviet Union (Lecture Response Unit) | HART30025 | 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 | ||
| Buddhist Psychology and Mental Health | THRS30067 | 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 | ||
| Changing Families and the State | SPOL31008 | 20 |
| Child Nutrition, Activity and Health | SPOL30034 | 20 |
| Children and Young People in the Law A | SPOL30057 | 20 |
| Children in a Global Context | SPOL32008 | 20 |
| Communist Worlds | HIST30019 | 20 |
| Comparative Social Policy in a Globalizing World | SPOL30048 | 20 |
| Computational Bioinformatics | COMS30003 | 10 |
| Contemporary British Cinema | MODL30007 | 20 |
| Contemporary British Theatre | DRAM30053 | 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 | ||
| Death and Afterlife in Buddhism | THRS30101 | 20 |
| Death, Doctors and Disease (Level H Lecture Response Unit) | HIST30025 | 20 |
| Dostoevsky | RUSS30063 | 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 | ||
| Europe: A Fractal History 1945-1989 (Level H Lecture Response) | HIST39003 | 20 |
| Exiles and Migrants in German Literature | GERM30058 | 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 | ||
| Food and feasting in the Roman World | ARCH30031 | 20 |
| Food: a Global History (Level H Lecture Response Unit) | HIST30027 | 20 |
| French for Business | FREN30095 | 20 |
| From Hell to Heaven: the Bible and spirituality | THRS30080 | 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 | ||
| Genocide in the Twentieth Century and Beyond (Level H Lecture Response Unit) | HIST30028 | 20 |
| Global Cities (Level H Lecture Response Unit) | HIST30034 | 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 | ||
| Health Care Policies | SPOL31018 | 20 |
| Health Policy in a Global Context | SPOL30055 | 20 |
| History in the Middle Ages (Level H Lecture Response Unit) | HIST30031 | 20 |
| Holocaust Landscapes (Level H Lecture Response) | HIST39009 | 20 |
| Housing, Economy and Society | SPOL30020 | 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 | ||
| Inter-professional Working | SOWK30002 | 20 |
| Intermediate Mandarin Chinese | LANG31047 | 20 |
| Interprofessional Working in Children's Services | SPOL30037 | 20 |
| Introduction to Hebrew 1 | THRS30169 | 20 |
| Introduction to Hebrew 2 | THRS30170 | 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 | ||
| Japanese for General Purposes (post-intermediate) | LANG32046 | 20 |
| Japanese for General Purposes Intermediate | LANG31046 | 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 Literacy in Young Children | SPOL30036 | 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 | ||
| Medieval Music Palaeography | MUSI30121 | 20 |
| Migration Policy in the UK and European Union | SPOL30030 | 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 | ||
| Pirates (Level H Lecture Response Unit) | HIST30032 | 20 |
| Poverty, Social Exclusion and Social Policy | SPOL30019 | 20 |
| Precursors of Modernism: Heine, Buchner, Kleist | GERM30057 | 20 |
| Prints | HART30046 | 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 | ||
| Realism (Level H Lecture Response Unit) | HART30044 | 20 |
| Representing the Holocaust | GERM32054 | 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 | ||
| Sex, Marriage, and Deviance in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras | THRS30077 | 20 |
| Sisters, Saints and Sinners: Women and the Medieval Church | THRS30076 | 20 |
| Social Policy and Development | SPOL30050 | 20 |
| Social Policy and the Environment | SPOL32032 | 20 |
| Societal Change and the Transformation of Work | SPOL32025 | 20 |
| Sociolinguistics: Language Variation and Change | MODL30015 | 20 |
| Spanish for Business | HISP30057 | 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 British World (Level H Lecture Response Unit) | HIST30033 | 20 |
| The Development of the Modern Mass Media: Disciplining Democracy (Level H Lecture Response Unit) | HIST30012 | 20 |
| The Feminist Politics of Food | SPAI30031 | 20 |
| The Origins of the Old Regime, 1550-1750 (Level H Lecture Response Unit) | HIST30037 | 20 |
| The True, the Good, and the Beautiful: Neoplatonism in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam | THRS30078 | 20 |
| Theorising Social Welfare | SPOL30038 | 20 |
| Theorising Social Welfare 1 | SPOL31001 | 20 |
| Translation and Adaptation | DRAM30055 | 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 | ||
| Understanding Urban Society | SPOL30023 | 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 | ||
| War Stories: Representation and Memory of Conflict in France since World War One | FREN30041 | 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 | ||
| Youth Justice | SPOL32006 | 20 |
