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 | ||
| AVDASI 1 - Aerospace Vehicle Systems Introduction | AENG10001 | 10 |
| Academic Listening and Speaking | LANG10007 | 10 |
| Academic Reading and Writing | LANG10008 | 10 |
| Advanced English Language Studies | LANG14011 | 20 |
| Advanced French | UWLP20002 | 20 |
| Advanced German | UWLP20004 | 20 |
| Advanced Japanese | UWLP30003 | 20 |
| Advanced Legal and Socio-Legal Research Methods | LAWDM0084 | 20 |
| Advanced Spanish | UWLP20006 | 20 |
| Aesthetics of Revolution and Resistance: 21st-Century Images of North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean | FREN30106 | 20 |
| After The Wall: Remembering the GDR | GERM32060 | 20 |
| Approaches to Poetry | ENGL10026 | 20 |
| Approaches to the Study of Religion | THRS20098 | 20 |
| Approaches to the Study of Religion | THRS10030 | 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 | ||
| Beginners Brazilian Portuguese | UWLP10007 | 20 |
| Beginners Czech | UWLP10017 | 20 |
| Beginners French | UWLP10001 | 20 |
| Beginners German | UWLP10004 | 20 |
| Beginners Italian | UWLP10014 | 20 |
| Beginners Japanese | UWLP10012 | 20 |
| Beginners Korean | UWLP10018 | 20 |
| Beginners Mandarin Chinese | UWLP10013 | 20 |
| Beginners Modern Standard Arabic | UWLP10008 | 20 |
| Beginners Russian | UWLP10016 | 20 |
| Beginners Spanish | UWLP10009 | 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 | ||
| Debates in Psychology of Education | EDUC10004 | 20 |
| Disabled Childhoods | SPOLM0050 | 20 |
| Domestic Violence: Research, Policy and Activism | SPOLD2029 | 20 |
| Domestic Violence: Research, Policy and Activism | SPOLM5010 | 20 |
| Dostoevsky | RUSS30063 | 20 |
| Drugs and Society | SPOL30011 | 20 |
| Drugs and Society | SPOL21011 | 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 | ||
| Education, Schooling and Diversity | SPOL10015 | 20 |
| Engineering Physics | EMAT10005 | 20 |
| Environmental Geoscience 1 | EASC10002 | 40 |
| 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 | ||
| Family Support | SOWK20002 | 20 |
| Follow-on French | UWLP20001 | 20 |
| Follow-on German | UWLP20003 | 20 |
| Follow-on Italian | UWLP20010 | 20 |
| Follow-on Spanish | UWLP20005 | 20 |
| Foreign Language Skills for Postgraduate Students (Advanced) | MODLM0031 | 20 |
| Foreign Language Skills for Postgraduate Students (Beginners and Intermediate) | MODLM0030 | 20 |
| French for Business and Enterprise | FREN30047 | 20 |
| Fundamentals of Body Function | PHPH10014 | 20 |
| Further Qualitative Methods | SPOLM0017 | 20 |
| Further Quantitative Methods | SPOLM0016 | 20 |
| Future Leaders in Contexts of Change (Teach First) | EDUCM0031 | 30 |
| 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 |
| Geology 1 | EASC10001 | 40 |
| German History and Thought | GERM10037 | 20 |
| German Literature and Film: Genres, Texts, Contexts | GERM10035 | 20 |
| Global Contexts of Rights and Disability | SPOLM0049 | 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 Policy in a Global Context | SPOL20055 | 20 |
| Health Policy in a Global Context | SPOL30055 | 20 |
| Heresy and Reform in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras | THRS10062 | 20 |
| Heresy and Reform in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras | THRS20208 | 20 |
| Historical Studies 1: Western Art Music (up to 1750) | MUSI10045 | 20 |
| Historical Studies II : Western Art Music (1750 to the present day) | MUSI10046 | 20 |
| Housing, Economy and Society | SPOL22020 | 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 | ||
| Jewish Law | LAWD30010 | 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 Literacy in Young Children | SPOL30036 | 20 |
| Law Gender and Sexuality | LAWDM0033 | 30 |
| Living Religions | THRS10028 | 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 | ||
| Mathematics 1A20 | MATH11004 | 20 |
| Medieval Music Palaeography | MUSIM0044 | 20 |
| Medieval Music Palaeography | MUSI30121 | 20 |
| Migration, asylum and human rights: EU and global policy perspectives. | SPOLM0042 | 20 |
| Miracles in the Christian Tradition | THRS20111 | 20 |
| Miracles in the Christian Tradition | THRS10055 | 20 |
| Modern Italy | ITAL10029 | 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 | ||
| Pagan Religions of the Roman Empire | CLAS17003 | 20 |
| Pedagogy and Curriculum in TESOL | EDUCM5902 | 20 |
| Philosophical Texts 1: Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion | PHIL10003 | 10 |
| Play and Creativity | SPOL22021 | 20 |
| Political Systems of Modern Europe | MODL20008 | 20 |
| Post-Beginners French | UWLP10002 | 20 |
| Post-Beginners German | UWLP10005 | 20 |
| Post-Beginners Italian | UWLP10015 | 20 |
| Post-Beginners Russian | UWLP20011 | 20 |
| Post-Beginners Spanish | UWLP10010 | 20 |
| Poverty, Inequality and Social Inclusion Research | SPOLD2024 | 20 |
| Pre-intermediate Japanese | UWLP20008 | 20 |
| Pre-intermediate Mandarin Chinese | UWLP20009 | 20 |
| Principles of Economics | EFIM10050 | 20 |
| Punishment in Society | SPOL20052 | 20 |
| Punishment in Society | SPOL30052 | 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 | ||
| Reimagining Odysseus | MODL30019 | 20 |
| Religion and Material Culture | THRS11051 | 20 |
| Religion and Material Culture | THRS20096 | 20 |
| Reproduction Law, Ethics, and Policy | LAWD30068 | 20 |
| Researching Poverty, Inequality and Social Exclusion | SPOLM5011 | 20 |
| Russia in the 1990s: A Decade of Chaos? | RUSS30065 | 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 | ||
| Security 101 | COMS10005 | 10 |
| Segregation and inequality in the UK (measurement and debate) | SPOL10017 | 20 |
| Social Identities and Divisions | SOCI10007 | 20 |
| Social Policy and Development | SPOL30050 | 20 |
| Social Policy and Development | SPOL20050 | 20 |
| Social Policy and the Welfare State: Historical Perspectives | SPOL10011 | 20 |
| Social Policy and the Welfare State: Key Concepts and Contemporary Issues | SPOL10018 | 20 |
| Social Policy and the Welfare State: Theoretical Perspectives | SPOL10012 | 20 |
| Social Policy in East Asia | SPOL20049 | 20 |
| Social Policy in East Asia | SPOL30049 | 20 |
| Social Research Methods | SOAD20004 | 20 |
| Social and Legal Theory | LAWDM0083 | 20 |
| Societal Change and the Transformation of Work | SPOL22030 | 20 |
| Societal Change and the Transformation of Work | SPOL32025 | 20 |
| Spanish for Business | HISP30057 | 20 |
| Stars and Planets 106 | PHYS10600 | 20 |
| Supervised Individual Study | AFACM0008 | 20 |
| Supervised Individual Study | SPAIM0038 | 10 |
| 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 Archaeology of Myth: From the Trojan War to the end of Atlantis | CLAS12384 | 20 |
| The Bible and/as Literature | THRS20196 | 20 |
| The Bible and/as Literature | THRS10047 | 20 |
| The Public Role of the Humanities | HUMS30001 | 20 |
| The Religious World of Dante | THRS10050 | 20 |
| The Religious World of Dante | THRS20090 | 20 |
| The Renaissance and the Rise of the Modern Age | THRS20108 | 20 |
| The Renaissance and the Rise of the Modern Age | THRS10041 | 20 |
| Therapeutic Work with Children | SPOL30035 | 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 Crime, Harm and Society | SPOL10020 | 20 |
| Understanding Russia: Critical Approaches | RUSS10039 | 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 |
| World Processors: Scientific and Medical Poetry from Parmenides to Padel | CLAS10031 | 20 |
| World in Crisis? | GEOG16001 | 20 |
| Writing Revolution: Russian Literature, 1910-1940 | RUSS30068 | 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 | SPOL20022 | 20 |
| Youth Justice | SPOL32006 | 20 |
| Youth, Sexualities and Gendered Violence | SPOL22023 | 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 | ||
| 'Talking to Tyrants' Politics, Thought and Drama in 1780s Germany | GERM20030 | 20 |
| ‘Hedgehogs and Foxes’: The Nineteenth-Century Russian Novel 2019 | RUSS20013 | 20 |
