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 |
| 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 Society I: An introduction | SOWK10001 | 20 |
| Comparative World Archaeology | ARCH10003 | 20 |
| Contemporary Ethics | THRS10044 | 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 Reasoning | PHIL10030 | 10 |
| 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, Schooling and Diversity | SPOL10015 | 20 |
| English for Academic Purposes - Part 1 (Science and Engineering) | LANG10002 | 10 |
| 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 | ||
| Globalisation and Development | ECON10053 | 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 | ||
| Homeric Society | CLAS12343 | 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 | ||
| Introduction to Archaeology | ARCH10001 | 20 |
| Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy | THRS10043 | 20 |
| Introduction to Cognitive Psychology | PSYC10006 | 10 |
| Introduction to Film and Television Studies | DRAM10024 | 20 |
| Introduction to International Relations | SPAI10001 | 20 |
| Introduction to Medieval Art | HART10215 | 20 |
| Introduction to Medieval History | HIST13011 | 20 |
| Introduction to Modern Art | HART10217 | 20 |
| Introduction to Philosophy A | PHIL10005 | 20 |
| Introduction to Sanskrit I: Grammar | THRS10017 | 20 |
| Introduction to Social Anthropology | ANTH10001 | 20 |
| Introduction to Social Psychology | PSYC10007 | 10 |
| Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language | LANG10120 | 20 |
| Introduction to the History of the British Empire: Rise, Fall and Legacies | HIST13014 | 20 |
| Italian for General Purposes Level 1 Grade 3 (post A'Level) | LANG13014 | 10 |
| 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 | ||
| Living Religions | THRS10028 | 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 | ||
| Marx's Political Writings | PHIL10018 | 10 |
| Mathematics 1A20 | MATH11004 | 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 | ||
| Pagan Religions of the Roman Empire | CLAS17003 | 20 |
| Performance Forms and Analysis | DRAM11004 | 20 |
| Philosophical Texts: Plato | PHIL10024 | 10 |
| Political Concepts | POLI11101 | 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 | ||
| Romano-British Archaeology | ARCH10009 | 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 Identities and Divisions | SOCI10007 | 20 |
| Social Policy and the Welfare State: Historical Perspectives | SPOL10011 | 20 |
| Social Policy and the Welfare State: Key Concepts and Contemporary Ideas | SPOL10013 | 20 |
| Stars and Planets 106 | PHYS10600 | 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 Thought of John Calvin | THRS10048 | 20 |
| Thinking Sociologically | SOCI10004 | 20 |
