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 | ||
| American Fiction that Matters: US Writing in 'The American Century' | MODL23012 | 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 | ||
| Brazilian Portuguese Level 2 Grade 2 | LANG20004 | 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 | ||
| Child and Adolescent Psychology | SPOL20032 | 20 |
| Czech Language (Elementary) | MODL23015 | 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Early and Premodern Christianity | THRS20100 | 20 |
| Education and Society | SPOL20020 | 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 | ||
| Family Support | SOWK20002 | 20 |
| French for Specific Purposes Level 2 Grade 1 | LANG21022 | 20 |
| French for Specific Purposes Level 2 Grade 2 | LANG22022 | 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 | ||
| Gender Based Violence | SPOL20021 | 20 |
| German for Specific Purposes Level 2 Grade 1 | LANG21023 | 20 |
| German for Specific Purposes Level 2 Grade 2 | LANG22023 | 20 |
| Green Planet | BIOL20013 | 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 | ||
| History of the USA Since 1865 | MODL23010 | 20 |
| Human-Computer Interaction | COMS21301 | 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 | ||
| Inside Medieval Music | MUSI20113 | 20 |
| Introduction to Digital Humanities | HUMS20006 | 20 |
| Introduction to Disability Studies | SPOL20018 | 20 |
| Introduction to Francophone African Literature | FREN20043 | 20 |
| Introduction to the Medical Humanities | HUMS20004 | 20 |
| Italian for Specific Purposes Level 2 Grade 1 | LANG21024 | 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 Pre-Intermediate | LANG21046 | 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 | ||
| Marine Ecology and Physiology | BIOL21403 | 10 |
| Migration Policy in the UK and European Union | SPOL20030 | 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 | ||
| Personal Welfare Services | SPOL20053 | 20 |
| Philosophical Approaches to Religious Experience | THRS20206 | 20 |
| Play and Creativity | SPOL22021 | 20 |
| Poverty, Social Exclusion and Social Policy | SPOL20019 | 20 |
| Punishment in Society | SPOL20052 | 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 | ||
| Russian Language Level 2 Grade 1 | LANG20005 | 20 |
| Russian Orthodox Culture | RUSS20044 | 20 |
| Russian for General Purposes Level 1 Grade 2 (post GCSE) | LANG10014 | 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 | ||
| Social Policy and the European Union | SPOL20051 | 20 |
| Social Research Methods | SOAD20004 | 20 |
| Spanish for Specific Purposes Level 2 Grade 1 | LANG21025 | 20 |
| Spanish for Specific Purposes Level 2 Grade 2 | LANG22025 | 20 |
| Spotlights on Anglo-German Relations: Literature, Media, Film | GERM20031 | 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 Bible in the Academy | THRS20093 | 20 |
| The Body, Gender and Religion | THRS20192 | 20 |
| The Foundations of Buddhist Thought and Practice | THRS20031 | 20 |
| The State of Welfare | SPOL20027 | 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 | ||
| Urban Governance and Democracy | SPOL20028 | 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 Policy and Social Welfare | SPOL22022 | 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 |
| 3000 Years of Chinese Religions | THRS20103 | 20 |
| ‘Hedgehogs and Foxes’: The Nineteenth-Century Russian Novel 2019 | RUSS20013 | 20 |
