6. Student choice (open units)

6.1. Full time students on undergraduate degree programmes will normally have the opportunity to broaden their education by taking units outside of their subject discipline (i.e. ‘open units’) worth at least 20 credit points across the programme, except where this is not practicable, for example, due to professional accreditation reasons. 

6.2. Faculties and schools will determine the point during a student's programme at which open units may be taken. 

6.3. Students do not have a right to take any particular unit as an open unit and should not undertake an open unit in which they are already proficient. The availability of any particular unit is subject to practical constraints such as space in teaching rooms or laboratories and timetabling. Subject to these constraints, students may also seek to take a unit (or units), which has not been flagged as being an ‘open unit’. 

6.4. Students are not required to take open units. If they wish, and subject to the programme structure and any practical constraints, they may take the 20 credit points set aside for open units in their honours subject(s).