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 | ||
| Beginners Brazilian Portuguese | UWLP10007 | 20 |
| Beginners Czech | UWLP10017 | 20 |
| 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 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 | ||
| Disabled Childhoods | SPOLM0050 | 20 |
| 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 | ||
| Education Viewed from the Global South | EDUC20002 | 20 |
| Education, Schooling and Diversity | SPOL20037 | 20 |
| Engineering Physics | EMAT10005 | 20 |
| Engineers of the Human Soul: Soviet Culture and Politics 1917 - 1941 | RUSS20060 | 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 |
| French for Business and Enterprise | FREN30047 | 20 |
| Fundamentals of Body Function | PHPH10014 | 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 |
| Gender Based Violence | SPOL20021 | 20 |
| Gender based Violence | SPOL30029 | 20 |
| German Literature and Film: Genres, Texts, Contexts | GERM10035 | 20 |
| German Modernist Prose | GERM20045 | 20 |
| Greek Language Level A1 | CLAS12311 | 20 |
| Greek Language Level A2 | CLAS12312 | 20 |
| Greek Language Level B1 | CLAS12315 | 20 |
| Greek Language Level B2 | CLAS12316 | 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 | SPOL20055 | 20 |
| Health Policy in a Global Context | SPOL30055 | 20 |
| Historical Linguistics | MODL20017 | 20 |
| Historical Studies 1: Western Art Music (up to 1750) | MUSI10045 | 20 |
| Historical Studies II : Western Art Music (1750 to the present day) | MUSI10046 | 20 |
| Historical Survey: Ancient Rome | CLAS10036 | 20 |
| How to be Creative | UNIV10004 | 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 | ||
| 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 and Literacy in Young Children | SPOL30036 | 20 |
| Language and Power: Introductions to German History | GERM10039 | 20 |
| Latin Language Level B1 | CLAS12307 | 20 |
| Latin Language Level B2 | CLAS12308 | 20 |
| Life and Death with Stalin | RUSS30079 | 20 |
| Living Religions East | THRS10065 | 20 |
| Living Religions West | THRS10064 | 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 |
| Migration Policy in the UK and European Union | SPOL20030 | 20 |
| Migration Policy in the UK and European Union | SPOL30030 | 20 |
| Modern German Thought and Thinkers | GERM10038 | 20 |
| Modern Italy | ITAL10033 | 20 |
| Music and Sex | MUSI20111 | 20 |
| Music and Sex | MUSI30120 | 20 |
| Music in Times of War | MUSI20119 | 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 |
| Opera & Politics | MUSI20120 | 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 |
| Personal Welfare Services | SPOL20053 | 20 |
| Political Systems of Modern Europe | MODL20008 | 20 |
| Post-Beginners French | UWLP10002 | 20 |
| Post-Beginners German | UWLP10005 | 20 |
| Post-Beginners Italian | UWLP10015 | 20 |
| Post-Beginners Spanish | UWLP10010 | 20 |
| Poverty, Social Exclusion and Social Policy | SPOL20019 | 20 |
| Poverty, Social Exclusion and Social Policy | SPOL30019 | 20 |
| Pre-intermediate Japanese | UWLP20008 | 20 |
| Pre-intermediate Mandarin Chinese | UWLP20009 | 20 |
| Principles of Economics | EFIM10050 | 20 |
| Punishment in Society | SPOL30052 | 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 | ||
| Reimagining Odysseus | MODL30019 | 20 |
| Representing the Holocaust | GERM32054 | 20 |
| Russia in the 1990s: A Decade of Chaos? | RUSS30065 | 20 |
| Russian Orthodox Culture | RUSS20044 | 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 | ||
| Security 101 | COMS10005 | 10 |
| Segregation and inequality in the UK (measurement and debate) | SPOL10017 | 20 |
| Social Identities and Divisions | SOCI10007 | 20 |
| Social Policy and the European Union | SPOL20051 | 20 |
| Social Policy and the European Union | SPOL30051 | 20 |
| Societal Change and the Transformation of Work | SPOL22030 | 20 |
| Spanish for Business | HISP30057 | 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 | ||
| The Early Modern World | HIST10043 | 20 |
| The Film Musical | MUSI20144 | 20 |
| The Film Musical | MUSI39011 | 20 |
| The Medieval World | HIST10042 | 20 |
| The Modern World | HIST10048 | 20 |
| The Soviet Union from Beginning to End | RUSS20061 | 20 |
| The State of Welfare | SPOL30044 | 20 |
| The State of Welfare | SPOL20027 | 20 |
| Therapeutic Work with Children | SPOL30035 | 20 |
| Thought | CLAS10040 | 20 |
| Transcription and Editing | MUSI20056 | 20 |
| Transforming the Tragic Hero(ine): 1770-1840 | GERM20044 | 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 Crime, Harm and Society | SPOL10020 | 20 |
| 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 Processors: Scientific and Medical Poetry from Parmenides to Padel | CLAS10031 | 20 |
| World in Crisis? | GEOG16001 | 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 |
| Youth Justice | SPOL20022 | 20 |
| Youth Policy and Social Welfare | SPOL22022 | 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 | ||
| ‘Hedgehogs and Foxes’: The Nineteenth-Century Russian Novel 2019 | RUSS20013 | 20 |
