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 Legal and Socio-Legal Research Methods | LAWDM0084 | 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 | ||
| Biophysics and Molecular Life Sciences I | BIOCM0008 | 20 |
| Biophysics and Molecular Life Sciences II | BIOCM0009 | 20 |
| Buddhism: The Foundations | THRSM0015 | 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 |
| Charles Dickens | ENGLM3019 | 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 |
| Dissertation | BIOCM0005 | 60 |
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Global Contexts of Rights and Disability | SPOLM0049 | 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 | ||
| Inclusive Research with Disabled People | ACHSM0001 | 20 |
| Infection, Immunology and Immunity | PANMM0015 | 20 |
| Introduction to Sanskrit 1 | THRSM0097 | 20 |
| Introduction to Sanskrit 2 | THRSM0098 | 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 | ||
| Law Gender and Sexuality | LAWDM0033 | 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 | ||
| Medieval Music Palaeography | MUSIM0044 | 20 |
| Medieval Mystics and Visionaries in Medieval England | THRSM0100 | 20 |
| Migration, asylum and human rights: EU and global policy perspectives. | SPOLM0042 | 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Pedagogy and Curriculum in TESOL | EDUCM5902 | 20 |
| Pharmacology | PHPHM0007 | 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 | ||
| Reception Studies | MODLM0024 | 20 |
| Researching Health and Social Care | SPOLM5004 | 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 | ||
| Sisters, Saints and Sinners: Women and the Medieval Church | THRSM0115 | 20 |
| Social and Legal Theory | LAWDM0083 | 20 |
| Supervised Individual Study | AFACM0008 | 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 Dynamic Cell | BIOCM0007 | 20 |
| The History of Christianity: Core Texts | THRSM0001 | 20 |
| The True, the Good, and the Beautiful: Neoplatonism in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam | THRSM0108 | 20 |
