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 | ||
| Advanced French | UWLP20002 | 20 |
| Advanced German | UWLP20004 | 20 |
| Advanced Japanese | UWLP30003 | 20 |
| Advanced Spanish | UWLP20006 | 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 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 Portuguese | UWLP10026 | 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 | ||
| City Futures: Migration, Citizenship, and Planetary Change | UNIV10005 | 20 |
| Classics of European Cinema | MODL10010 | 20 |
| Contemporary European Cinema | MODL10009 | 20 |
| Convincing stories? Numbers as evidence in the social sciences | UNIV10002 | 20 |
| Creative Futures: Tools for Changing the World | UNIV10007 | 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 | ||
| Follow-on French | UWLP20001 | 20 |
| Follow-on German | UWLP20003 | 20 |
| Follow-on Italian | UWLP20010 | 20 |
| Follow-on Spanish | UWLP20005 | 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 | ||
| Intermediate French | UWLP10003 | 20 |
| Intermediate German | UWLP10006 | 20 |
| Intermediate Japanese | UWLP30001 | 20 |
| Intermediate Mandarin Chinese | UWLP30002 | 20 |
| Intermediate Spanish | UWLP10011 | 20 |
| Introduction to Cognitive and Biological Psychology | PSYC10013 | 20 |
| Introduction to Social and Developmental Psychology | PSYC10012 | 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 | ||
| Post-Beginners French | UWLP10002 | 20 |
| Post-Beginners German | UWLP10005 | 20 |
| Pre-intermediate Japanese | UWLP20008 | 20 |
| Pre-intermediate Mandarin Chinese | UWLP20009 | 20 |
| Principles of Economics | EFIM10050 | 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Understanding global problems using data: inequality, climate change and the economy | UNIV10008 | 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 in Crisis? | GEOG16001 | 20 |
