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 |
| Approaches to the Study of Religion | THRS20098 | 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 |
| Changing Families and the State | SPOL21008 | 20 |
| Child and Adolescent Psychology | SPOL20032 | 20 |
| Cities and communities in the urban age | SPOL20038 | 20 |
| Comparative Social Policy in a Globalizing World | SPOL20048 | 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 | ||
| Drugs and Society | SPOL21011 | 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 | ||
| Family Support | SOWK20002 | 20 |
| 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 | ||
| Health Policy in a Global Context | SPOL20055 | 20 |
| Heresy and Reform in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras | THRS20208 | 20 |
| Housing, Economy and Society | SPOL22020 | 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 | ||
| Indian Philosophy | THRS20205 | 20 |
| Introduction to Digital Humanities | HUMS20006 | 20 |
| Introduction to Japanese Religions | THRS20209 | 20 |
| Introduction to Linguistics | MODL23013 | 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 | ||
| Miracles in the Christian Tradition | THRS20111 | 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 | ||
| Play and Creativity | SPOL22021 | 20 |
| Political Systems of Modern Europe | MODL20008 | 20 |
| Post-Beginners Russian | UWLP20011 | 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 | ||
| Religion and Material Culture | THRS20096 | 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 Development | SPOL20050 | 20 |
| Social Policy in East Asia | SPOL20049 | 20 |
| Social Research Methods | SOAD20004 | 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 Bible and/as Literature | THRS20196 | 20 |
| The Religious World of Dante | THRS20090 | 20 |
| The Renaissance and the Rise of the Modern Age | THRS20108 | 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, Sexualities and Gendered Violence | SPOL22023 | 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 | ||
| 'Talking to Tyrants' Politics, Thought and Drama in 1780s Germany | GERM20030 | 20 |
| ‘Hedgehogs and Foxes’: The Nineteenth-Century Russian Novel 2019 | RUSS20013 | 20 |
