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 |
| 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 | ||
| Classics of European Cinema | MODL10010 | 20 |
| Comparative Government and Politics: An Introduction | POLI11103 | 20 |
| Comparative and International Social Policy | SPOL10014 | 20 |
| Contemporary Debates in Global Childhood | SPOL10024 | 20 |
| Controlling Crime and Social Harm | SPOL10021 | 20 |
| Criminology: an introduction | SPOL10019 | 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 | ||
| Debates in Psychology of Education | EDUC10004 | 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 |
| 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 |
| German History and Thought | GERM10037 | 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 | ||
| Heresy and Reform in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras | THRS10062 | 20 |
| Historical Studies II : Western Art Music (1750 to the present day) | MUSI10046 | 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 | ||
| Indian Philosophy | THRS10056 | 20 |
| Introduction to Accounting | ACCG10052 | 20 |
| Introduction to Biological Psychology | PSYC10009 | 10 |
| Introduction to Developmental Psychology | PSYC10008 | 10 |
| Introduction to Early Modern History | HIST13012 | 20 |
| Introduction to Early-Modern Art | HART10216 | 20 |
| Introduction to Japanese Religions | THRS10059 | 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 | ||
| Pagan Religions of the Roman Empire | CLAS17003 | 20 |
| Philosophical Texts 1: Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion | PHIL10003 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Social Policy and the Welfare State: Historical Perspectives | SPOL10011 | 20 |
| Social Policy and the Welfare State: Theoretical Perspectives | SPOL10012 | 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 Religious World of Dante | THRS10050 | 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 | ||
| World Processors: Scientific and Medical Poetry from Parmenides to Padel | CLAS10031 | 20 |
| World in Crisis? | GEOG16001 | 20 |
