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 |
| Archaic Greece | CLAS12352 | 20 |
| Arts Students Count | AFAC10004 | 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 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Introduction to Archaeology | ARCH10001 | 20 |
| Introduction to Cognitive Psychology | PSYC10006 | 10 |
| Introduction to Film and Television Studies | DRAM10024 | 20 |
| Introduction to Hebrew I | THRS10015 | 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 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 |
| Introductory Foundation Mathematics | MATH10008 | 20 |
| Issues in World Politics | SPAI10004 | 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 | ||
| Late Antiquity | CLAS12381 | 20 |
| Living Religions | ARCH10010 | 20 |
| 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 | ||
| Paradoxes | PHIL10028 | 10 |
| Performance Forms and Analysis | DRAM11004 | 20 |
| Philosophical Texts: Plato | PHIL10024 | 10 |
| Preliminary Physics A - Mechanics, Waves and Optics | PHYS10003 | 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 | ||
| Religion and Material Culture | THRS11051 | 20 |
| Roman Imperial Culture | CLAS10029 | 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 Issues | SPOL10018 | 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 Philosophy of Religion | THRS10034 | 20 |
| The Renaissance and the Rise of the Modern Age | THRS10041 | 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 in Crisis? | GEOG16001 | 20 |
