A-Z list of all open units in 2014/15

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 Levels represent?

• Level QCA-3
• Level C/4
• Level I/5
• Level H/6
• Level M/7
• Level D/8
• All units

What do the teaching blocks (TB) mean?

• All
• TB-1
• AYEAR
• TB-1A
• TB-1B
• TB-2
• TB-2C
• TB-2D
• TB-4

 

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
A Consumer Revolution: The Rise of Consumer Culture in Britain (Level I Lecture Response)	HIST25004	20
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 Legal and Socio-Legal Research Methods	LAWDM0084	20
American Art: Art and Identity (Lecture Response Unit)	HART30026	20
American Fiction that Matters: US Writing in 'The American Century'	MODL23012	20
Analysis in Management	EFIM10003	20
Anguish in Eden: Foundations of American Prose Writing	MODL23011	20
Animated Film	DRAM23137	20
Approaches to Poetry	ENGL10026	20
Approaches to Shakespeare	ENGL10027	20
Approaches to the study of Political Science	POLI11104	20
Architecture and Urbanism	HART20019	20
Art and Memory (Level H Lecture Response Unit)	HART30041	20
Art in Russia and the Soviet Union (Lecture Response Unit)	HART30025	20
Arts Students Count	AFAC10004	20
Atheism	THRS30050	20
Atheism	THRSM0107	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
Big Ideas in Science	CHEM10001	20
Biology 1A: Diversity of Life	BIOL11000	40
Biology 1B: Life Processes	BIOL12000	40
Biophysics and Molecular Life Sciences I	BIOCM0008	20
Biophysics and Molecular Life Sciences II	BIOCM0009	20
Brazilian Portuguese Level 2 Grade 2	LANG20003	20
Brazilian Portuguese Level 2 Grade 2	LANG20004	20
Brazilian Portuguese for General Purposes Level 1 Grade 1	LANG10005	20
British Prehistory	ARCH12011	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
Cancer Biology	PANMM0014	20
Cardiovascular Research	PHPHM0005	20
Catalan Language (Elementary)	MODL23014	20
Charles Dickens	ENGLM3019	20
Chekhov on the World Stage	RUSS20014	20
Children in Society I: An introduction	SOWK10001	20
Children in Society II: Children and Contemporary Society	SOWK10002	20
Classics of European Cinema	MODL10010	20
Comedy	CLAS12370	20
Communist Worlds	HIST30019	20
Comparative Government and Politics: An Introduction	POLI11103	20
Comparative World Archaeology	ARCH10003	20
Comparative and International Social Policy	SPOL10014	20
Computational Bioinformatics	COMS30003	10
Conservation Biology	BIOL20401	10
Contemporary British Cinema	MODL30007	20
Contemporary British Theatre	DRAM30053	20
Contemporary Ethics	THRS20194	20
Contemporary Ethics	THRS10044	20
Contemporary European Cinema	MODL10009	20
Contemporary Hollywood Cinema	DRAM33127	20
Contemporary Russia through the Media	RUSS10034	20
Contemporary Writing	ENGL10016	20
Convincing stories? Numbers as evidence in the social sciences	UNIV10002	20
Core Physics I:Mechanics and Matter	PHYS10006	20
Creative Technology Project	COMSM0014	40
Criminology	SPOL30010	20
Criminology	SPOL21010	20
Critical Reasoning	PHIL10030	10
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
Death, Doctors and Disease (Level H Lecture Response Unit)	HIST30025	20
Developmental and Cellular Physiology of the Specialised Cell	PHPH20010	20
Dissertation	BIOCM0005	60
Documentary Histories and Practices	DRAM23135	20
Doing Social Research	SOCI10005	20
Dostoevsky	RUSS30063	20
Drugs and Society	SPOL30011	20
Drugs and Society	SPOL21011	20
Dynamics of Networks	EMATM0008	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
Education and Society	SPOL30028	20
Education and Society	SPOL20020	20
Education, Schooling and Diversity	SPOL10015	20
Engineering Physics	EMAT10005	20
English for Academic Purposes - Part 1 (Science and Engineering)	LANG10002	10
English for Academic Purposes - Part 2 (Science and Engineering)	LANG10003	10
Environment Earth	EASC10004	20
Environmental Geoscience 1	EASC10002	40
Environmental Imperialism (Level I Lecture Response Unit)	HIST20048	20
European Crime Fiction	MODL30014	20
European Foreign Policy	SPAI30022	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
Film Criticism	DRAM33128	20
Film and TV Comedy	DRAM23122	20
Film and Television Histories	DRAM23123	20
Food: a Global History (Level H Lecture Response Unit)	HIST30027	20
French for Business	FREN30095	20
French for General Purposes Level 1 Grade 2 (post GCSE)	LANG12022	20
French for General Purposes Level 1 Grade 3 (post A'Level)	LANG13022	20
French for Specific Purposes Level 2 Grade 1	LANG21022	20
French for Specific Purposes Level 2 Grade 2	LANG22022	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
Gender Based Violence	SPOL20021	20
Gender based Violence	SPOL30029	20
Genocide in the Twentieth Century and Beyond (Level H Lecture Response Unit)	HIST30028	20
Geology 1	EASC10001	40
German for General Purposes Level 1 Grade 2 (post GCSE)	LANG12023	20
German for General Purposes Level 1 Grade 1 (ab-initio)	LANG11043	20
German for General Purposes Level 1 Grade 3 (post A'Level)	LANG13023	20
German for Specific Purposes Level 2 Grade 1	LANG21023	20
German for Specific Purposes Level 2 Grade 2	LANG22023	20
Ghosts, Death and the Afterlife	THRS11055	20
Ghosts, Death and the Afterlife	THRS20167	20
Global Cinemas / Local Stories	DRAM33131	20
Global Cities (Level H Lecture Response Unit)	HIST30034	20
Globalisation and Development	ECON10053	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
Hard Labour? The History of Work (Level H Lecture Response Unit)	HIST30030	20
Health Policy in a Global Context	SPOL30055	20
Histories and Theories of Art	HART22223	20
History of the USA Before 1865	MODL23009	20
History of the USA Since 1865	MODL23010	20
Hollywood Cinema History	DRAM23126	20
Holocaust Landscapes (Level H Lecture Response)	HIST39009	20
Homeric Society	CLAS12343	20
Homeric Society	CLAS22343	20
Human Rights in History (Level H Lecture Response Unit)	HIST30035	20
Human Rights in Law, Politics and Society	LAWDM0089	30
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
Infection, Immunology and Immunity	PANMM0015	20
Integrative Physiology	PHPH20008	20
Intermediate Mandarin Chinese	LANG31047	20
Introduction to Accounting	ACCG10052	20
Introduction to Aegean and Greek Archaeology	ARCH14008	20
Introduction to Archaeology	ARCH10001	20
Introduction to Biological Psychology	PSYC10009	10
Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy	THRS20193	20
Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy	THRS10043	20
Introduction to Cognitive Psychology	PSYC10006	10
Introduction to Czech History and Culture	RUSS10038	20
Introduction to Developmental Psychology	PSYC10008	10
Introduction to Early Modern History	HIST13012	20
Introduction to Early-Modern Art	HART10216	20
Introduction to Film and Television Studies	DRAM10024	20
Introduction to German Studies	GERM10023	20
Introduction to German Studies (Post A-Level)	GERM10013	40
Introduction to International Relations	SPAI10001	20
Introduction to Linguistics	MODL23013	20
Introduction to Medieval Art	HART10215	20
Introduction to Medieval History	HIST13011	20
Introduction to Modern Art	HART10217	20
Introduction to Philosophy A	PHIL10005	20
Introduction to Philosophy B	PHIL10006	20
Introduction to Public Management	EFIM20004	20
Introduction to Russian History and Culture	RUSS10033	20
Introduction to Russian Literature	RUSS10037	20
Introduction to Sanskrit 1	THRS20188	20
Introduction to Sanskrit 1	THRS30171	20
Introduction to Sanskrit 2	THRS20189	20
Introduction to Sanskrit 2	THRS30172	20
Introduction to Sanskrit I: Grammar	THRS10017	20
Introduction to Sanskrit II: Texts	THRS10018	20
Introduction to Social Anthropology	ANTH10001	20
Introduction to Social Psychology	PSYC10007	10
Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language	LANG10120	20
Introduction to the History of the British Empire: Rise, Fall and Legacies	HIST13014	20
Introduction to the Philosophy of Science	PHIL10015	10
Introduction to the Study of Cultures	MODL10011	20
Issues in the Study of Religion	THRS10031	20
Issues in the Study of Religion	THRS20099	20
Italian for General Purposes Level 1 Grade 1 (ab-initio)	LANG11044	20
Italian for General Purposes Level 1 Grade 2 (post GCSE)	LANG12024	20
Italian for General Purposes Level 1 Grade 3 (post A'Level)	LANG13014	10
Italian for General Purposes Level 1 Grade 3 (post A'Level)	LANG13024	20
Italian for Specific Purposes Level 2 Grade 1	LANG21024	20
Italian for Specific Purposes Level 2 Grade 2	LANG22024	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 (ab-initio)	LANG11046	20
Japanese for General Purposes Intermediate	LANG31046	20
Japanese for General Purposes Pre-Intermediate	LANG21046	20
Jesus in an Age of Colonialism	THRS30068	20
Jewish Experience in Modern European History (Level I Lecture Response Unit)	HIST20044	20
Journeying: Discovering the World, Creating Ourselves	GEOG16002	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 (Advanced)	MODL10014	40
Language for General Purposes (Ab-initio Mandarin Chinese)	LANG11047	20
Language for General Purposes - French Level 1, Grade 1	LANG11042	20
Language, Culture, and Society	ARCH20045	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
Mahayana Buddhist Literature	THRS30075	20
Mahayana Buddhist Literature	THRSM0110	20
Mandarin Chinese for General Purposes (pre-intermediate)	LANG21047	20
Marine Ecology and Physiology	BIOL21403	10
Markets, Government and Public Policy	SPOL30021	20
Markets, Government and Public Policy	SPOL20017	20
Marx's Political Writings	PHIL10018	10
Mathematics 1A20	MATH11004	20
Mathematics 1EM	MATH10600	40
Medieval English Lifestyles (Lecture Response Unit)	HIST20028	20
Melodrama	DRAM20054	20
Memory and History in the Twentieth Century	MODL20010	20
Migration Policy in the UK and European Union	SPOL20030	20
Migration Policy in the UK and European Union	SPOL30030	20
Modern Art in the USA 1900-1939 (Lecture Response Unit)	HART20005	20
Modern Girls and New Women (Level I Lecture Response Unit)	HIST20079	20
Modern Italy	ITAL10029	20
Modern Latin American Revolutions	HIST20042	20
Modern Latin American Revolutions (Level H Lecture Response)	HIST39011	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
Neurophysiology	PHPH20009	20
Neuroscience	PHPHM0006	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	CLAS27003	20
Pagan Religions of the Roman Empire	CLAS17003	20
Performance Forms and Analysis	DRAM11004	20
Performance Histories	DRAM23125	20
Personal Welfare Services	SPOL30053	20
Personal Welfare Services	SPOL20053	20
Pharmacology	PHPHM0007	20
Philosophical Text 3: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics	PHIL10008	10
Philosophical Texts 1: Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion	PHIL10003	10
Philosophical Texts: Plato	PHIL10024	10
Pirates (Level H Lecture Response Unit)	HIST30032	20
Planet Earth	EASC10003	20
Political Concepts	POLI11101	20
Political Systems of Modern Europe	MODL20008	20
Politics and Society in Contemporary Britain (Level I Lecture Response)	HIST25007	20
Popular Performance: Cabaret, Music Hall, Musicals and Revue	DRAM23124	20
Precursors of Modernism: Heine, Buchner, Kleist	GERM30057	20
Principles of Economics	EFIM10050	20
Principles of Quantitative Social Science	SPAI20013	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
Religious and Cultural Change in India: from Indus to Islam	THRS10033	20
Religious and Cultural Change in India: from Indus to Islam	THRS20101	20
Researching Child and Family Welfare	SPOLM0011	20
Researching Health and Social Care	SPOLM5004	20
Rethinking History	HIST23101	20
Romano-British Archaeology	ARCH10009	20
Russian Orthodox Culture	RUSS20044	20
Russian for General Purposes Level 1 Grade 1	LANG10006	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
Sculpture and the Body (Level I Lecture Response Unit)	HART20026	20
Segregation and inequality in the UK (measurement and debate)	SPOL10017	20
Self Portraiture	HART30037	20
Sex, Marriage, and Deviance in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras	THRSM0109	20
Sex, Marriage, and Deviance in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras	THRS30077	20
Sixties America and its Aftermath (Level I Lecture Response Unit)	HIST20052	20
Slavery and the Modern World (Level I Lecture Response)	HIST25003	20
Social Identities and Divisions	SOCI10007	20
Social Policy and The Lifecourse	SPOL32026	20
Social Policy and The Lifecourse	SPOL22031	20
Social Policy and the European Union	SPOL20051	20
Social Policy and the European Union	SPOL30051	20
Social Policy and the Welfare State: Historical Perspectives	SPOL10011	20
Social Policy and the Welfare State: Key Concepts and Contemporary Ideas	SPOL10013	20
Social Policy and the Welfare State: Theoretical Perspectives	SPOL10012	20
Social Research Methods	SOAD20004	20
Social and Legal Theory	LAWDM0083	20
Socio-legal Research Methods	LAWDM1007	10
Spanish and Business Studies	HISP30039	20
Spanish for General Purposes Level 1 Grade 1 (ab-initio)	LANG11045	20
Spanish for General Purposes Level 1 Grade 2 (post GCSE)	LANG12025	20
Spanish for General Purposes Level 1 Grade 3 (post A'Level)	LANG13025	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
Stars and Planets 106	PHYS10600	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
Technocracy (Level H Lecture Response Unit)	HIST30039	20
Texts in Modern Political Philosophy	PHIL10027	10
The Archaeology and Topography of Ancient Greece	ARCH20021	20
The Archaeology and Topography of Ancient Rome	ARCH20024	20
The Camera Eye: Inter-war Photographic Culture (Level I Lecture Response Unit)	HART25000	20
The Development of the Modern Mass Media: Disciplining Democracy (Level H Lecture Response Unit)	HIST30012	20
The Dynamic Cell	BIOCM0007	20
The Early Reformation (Level I Lecture Response)	HIST25009	20
The Foundations of Buddhist Thought and Practice	THRS10045	20
The Great Outdoors (Level I Lecture Response Unit)	HIST20080	20
The Italian City: Medieval and Early Modern Cultures	ITAL30051	20
The Origins of the Old Regime, 1550-1750 (Level H Lecture Response Unit)	HIST30037	20
The Persian Empire	CLASM0048	20
The Religious World of Dante	THRS20090	20
The Religious World of Dante	THRS10050	20
The Senses	CLASM0049	20
The South African War (Level I Lecture Response Unit)	HIST20023	20
The Struggle for Russia: 19th-century Debates on Self and Society	RUSS20012	20
The Thought of John Calvin	THRS10048	20
The Thought of John Calvin	THRS20197	20
The True, the Good, and the Beautiful: Neoplatonism in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam	THRS30078	20
The True, the Good, and the Beautiful: Neoplatonism in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam	THRSM0108	20
Theorising Social Welfare 1	SPOL31001	20
Theravada Buddhist Practice in Asia	THRS30019	20
Thinking Sociologically	SOCI10004	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 Public Policy	SPOL20054	20
Understanding Urban Society	SPOL30023	20
Understanding Urban Society	SPOL20023	20
Utopia (Level I Lecture Response Unit)	HIST20075	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 and Society	HIST20035	20
Well-being and Society	ARCH10008	20
World in Crisis?	GEOG16001	20

 

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'Talking to Tyrants' Politics, Thought and Drama in 1780s Germany	GERM20030	20
‘Hedgehogs and Foxes’: The Nineteenth-Century Russian Novel 2019	RUSS20013	20