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 Japanese | UWLP30003 | 20 |
Aesthetics and Criticism | MUSI30029 | 20 |
Aesthetics of Revolution and Resistance: 21st-Century Images of North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean | FREN30106 | 20 |
African-American Music in the 20th Century | MUSI30105 | 20 |
After The Wall: Remembering the GDR | GERM32060 | 20 |
Ancients and moderns: cultures of humanism in Renaissance Europe | MODL30002 | 20 |
Anticipating the End: Russian Thought in the Shadow of Revolution (1890-1917) | RUSS30059 | 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 Nutrition, Activity and Health | SPOL30034 | 20 |
Children and Young People in the Law A | SPOL30057 | 20 |
Children in a Global Context | SPOL32008 | 20 |
Comparative Social Policy in a Globalizing World | SPOL30048 | 20 |
Contemporary British Cinema | MODL30007 | 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 | ||
Drama and the German Stage: Spotlights on Theatrical Practice, 1800-2000 | GERM30072 | 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 | ||
French for Business and Enterprise | FREN30047 | 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 | SPOL30029 | 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 | ||
Health Policy in a Global Context | SPOL30055 | 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 | ||
Inside Medieval Music | MUSI30122 | 20 |
Intermediate Japanese | UWLP30001 | 20 |
Intermediate Mandarin Chinese | UWLP30002 | 20 |
Interprofessional Working in Children's Services | SPOL30037 | 20 |
Introduction to Sanskrit 1 | THRS30171 | 20 |
Introduction to Sanskrit 2 | THRS30172 | 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 | ||
Jewish Law | LAWD30010 | 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 and Literacy in Young Children | SPOL30036 | 20 |
Life and Death with Stalin | RUSS30079 | 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 | ||
Migration Policy in the UK and European Union | SPOL30030 | 20 |
Music and Sex | MUSI30120 | 20 |
Music in Times of War | MUSI30128 | 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 | ||
Opera & Politics | MUSI30129 | 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 | SPOL30053 | 20 |
Poverty, Social Exclusion and Social Policy | SPOL30019 | 20 |
Punishment in Society | SPOL30052 | 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 | ||
Reimagining Odysseus | MODL30019 | 20 |
Representing the Holocaust | GERM32054 | 20 |
Russia in the 1990s: A Decade of Chaos? | RUSS30065 | 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 | SPOL30051 | 20 |
Spanish for Business | HISP30057 | 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 Film Musical | MUSI39011 | 20 |
The State of Welfare | SPOL30044 | 20 |
Therapeutic Work with Children | SPOL30035 | 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 | SPOL32006 | 20 |