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A-Z list of all open units in 2016/17

Please note: you are viewing unit and programme information for a past academic year. Please see the current academic year for up to date information.

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.

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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
Arts Students Count AFAC10004 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 for General Purposes Level 1 Grade 1 LANG10005 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
Children in Society I: An introduction SOWK10001 20
Children in Society II: Children and Contemporary Society SOWK10002 20
Classics of European Cinema MODL10010 20
Contemporary European Cinema MODL10009 20
Convincing stories? Numbers as evidence in the social sciences UNIV10002 20
Core Physics I:Mechanics and Matter PHYS10006 20
Criminology: an introduction SPOL10019 20
Czech for General Purposes Level 1 Grade 1 (ab initio) LANG10013 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
Environment Earth EASC10004 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
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
 
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
German Literature and Film: Genres, Texts, Contexts GERM10035 20
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
 
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
Historical Studies 1: Western Art Music (up to 1750) MUSI10045 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
Introduction to Biological Psychology PSYC10009 10
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 German Studies (Post A-Level) GERM10036 40
Introduction to Medieval Art HART10215 20
Introduction to Medieval History HIST13011 20
Introduction to Modern Art HART10217 20
Introduction to Russian Literature RUSS10037 20
Introduction to Sanskrit I: Grammar THRS10017 20
Introduction to Sanskrit II: Texts THRS10018 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
Introductory Foundation Mathematics MATH10008 20
Issues in World Politics POLI10001 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
 
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
 
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 for General Purposes (Ab-initio Mandarin Chinese) LANG11047 20
Language for General Purposes - French Level 1, Grade 1 LANG11042 20
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
Modern Italy ITAL10029 20
Modern Standard Arabic Level 1 Grade 1 LANG10012 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
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: Key Concepts and Contemporary Issues SPOL10018 20
Social Policy and the Welfare State: Theoretical Perspectives SPOL10012 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
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
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
World in Crisis? GEOG16001 20

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