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 | ||
| 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 |
| Approaches to Poetry | ENGL10026 | 20 |
| Approaches to the Study of Religion | THRS10030 | 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| City Futures: Migration, Citizenship, and Planetary Change | UNIV10005 | 20 |
| Classics of European Cinema | MODL10010 | 20 |
| Communicating Science | PHYS10001 | 20 |
| Comparative Government and Politics: An Introduction | POLI11103 | 20 |
| Comparative and International Social Policy | SPOL10014 | 20 |
| Constructing Childhoods | SPOL10023 | 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 |
| Critical Concepts in the Study of the Hispanic World | HISP10010 | 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 | ||
| Engineering Physics | EMAT10005 | 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 | ||
| 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 |
| German Literature and Film: Genres, Texts, Contexts | GERM10035 | 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Inequality, Crisis and Prosperity: How to Make Sense of the Global Economy | UNIV10003 | 20 |
| Intermediate French | UWLP10003 | 20 |
| Intermediate German | UWLP10006 | 20 |
| Intermediate Spanish | UWLP10011 | 20 |
| 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 Art | HART10216 | 20 |
| Introduction to Medieval Art | HART10215 | 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 Study of Cultures | MODL10011 | 20 |
| Issues in World Politics | POLI10001 | 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 Power: Introductions to German History | GERM10039 | 20 |
| Latin Language Level B1 | CLAS12307 | 20 |
| Latin Language Level B2 | CLAS12308 | 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 |
| Modern German Thought and Thinkers | GERM10038 | 20 |
| Modern Italy | ITAL10033 | 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 | ||
| Post-Beginners French | UWLP10002 | 20 |
| Post-Beginners German | UWLP10005 | 20 |
| Post-Beginners Italian | UWLP10015 | 20 |
| Post-Beginners Spanish | UWLP10010 | 20 |
| Principles of Economics | EFIM10050 | 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 |
| 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 Medieval World | HIST10042 | 20 |
| The Modern World | HIST10048 | 20 |
| Thought | CLAS10040 | 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 |
