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 | ||
| African narratives of migration | FREN30039 | 20 |
| After The Wall: Remembering the GDR | GERM32060 | 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 | ||
| Children in a Global Context | SPOL32008 | 20 |
| Comparative Social Policy in a Globalizing World | SPOL30048 | 20 |
| Computational Bioinformatics | COMS30003 | 10 |
| Contemporary British Cinema | MODL30007 | 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 | ||
| Death and Afterlife in Buddhism | THRS30101 | 20 |
| Dostoevsky | RUSS30063 | 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 | ||
| Exiles and Migrants in German Literature | GERM30058 | 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 | ||
| Food and feasting in the Roman World | ARCH30031 | 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 | ||
| Inter-professional Working | SOWK30002 | 20 |
| Interprofessional Working in Children's Services | SPOL30037 | 20 |
| Introduction to Hebrew 2 | THRS30170 | 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 | ||
| Poverty, Social Exclusion and Social Policy | SPOL30019 | 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 | ||
| Sex, Marriage, and Deviance in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras | THRS30077 | 20 |
| Social Policy and Development | SPOL30050 | 20 |
| Social Policy and the Environment | SPOL32032 | 20 |
| Sociolinguistics: Language Variation and Change | MODL30015 | 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 True, the Good, and the Beautiful: Neoplatonism in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam | THRS30078 | 20 |
| Theorising Social Welfare | SPOL30038 | 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 | ||
| War Stories: Representation and Memory of Conflict in France since World War One | FREN30041 | 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 |
