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 French | UWLP20002 | 20 |
| Advanced German | UWLP20004 | 20 |
| Advanced Spanish | UWLP20006 | 20 |
| African-American Music in the 20th Century | MUSI20066 | 20 |
| Approaches to Music History I | MUSI20142 | 20 |
| Approaches to Music History II | MUSI20143 | 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 | ||
| Catalan Language (Elementary) | MODL23014 | 20 |
| Child and Adolescent Psychology | SPOL20032 | 20 |
| Cities and communities in the urban age | SPOL20038 | 20 |
| Curriculum Design for Learning | EDUC20001 | 20 |
| Czech Language (Elementary) | MODL23015 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | SPOL20021 | 20 |
| German Modernist Prose | GERM20045 | 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 |
| Historical Linguistics | MODL20017 | 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 | MUSI20113 | 20 |
| Introduction to Sanskrit 1 | THRS20188 | 20 |
| Introduction to Sanskrit 2 | THRS20189 | 20 |
| Introduction to the Medical Humanities | HUMS20004 | 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 | SPOL20030 | 20 |
| Music and Sex | MUSI20111 | 20 |
| Music in Times of War | MUSI20119 | 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 | 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 | SPOL20053 | 20 |
| Political Systems of Modern Europe | MODL20008 | 20 |
| Poverty, Social Exclusion and Social Policy | SPOL20019 | 20 |
| Pre-intermediate Japanese | UWLP20008 | 20 |
| Pre-intermediate Mandarin Chinese | UWLP20009 | 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Social Policy and the European Union | SPOL20051 | 20 |
| Societal Change and the Transformation of Work | SPOL22030 | 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 | MUSI20144 | 20 |
| The Soviet Union from Beginning to End | RUSS20061 | 20 |
| The State of Welfare | SPOL20027 | 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 | ||
| 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 |
