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 |
| Approaches to Shakespeare | ENGL10027 | 20 |
| Approaches to the Study of Religion | THRS10030 | 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 | ||
| Big Ideas in Science | CHEM10001 | 20 |
| Brazilian Portuguese for General Purposes Level 1 Grade 1 | LANG10005 | 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 |
| Children in Society II: Children and Contemporary Society | SOWK10002 | 20 |
| Classical Greece | CLAS12380 | 20 |
| Classics of European Cinema | MODL10010 | 20 |
| Communicating Science | PHYS10001 | 20 |
| Comparative Government and Politics: An Introduction | POLI11103 | 20 |
| Comparative World Archaeology | ARCH10003 | 20 |
| Comparative and International Social Policy | SPOL10014 | 20 |
| Contemporary European Cinema | MODL10009 | 20 |
| Contemporary Russia through the Media | RUSS10034 | 20 |
| Contemporary Writing | ENGL10016 | 20 |
| Convincing stories? Numbers as evidence in the social sciences | UNIV10002 | 20 |
| Core Physics I:Mechanics and Matter | PHYS10006 | 20 |
| Criminology: an introduction | SPOL10019 | 20 |
| Critical Concepts in the Study of the Hispanic World | HISP10010 | 20 |
| Critical Reasoning | PHIL10030 | 10 |
| Czech for General Purposes Level 1 Grade 1 (ab initio) | LANG10013 | 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 | ||
| Education, Schooling and Diversity | SPOL10015 | 20 |
| Engineering Physics | EMAT10005 | 20 |
| English for Academic Purposes - Part 1 (Science and Engineering) | LANG10002 | 10 |
| English for Academic Purposes - Part 2 (Science and Engineering) | LANG10003 | 10 |
| Environment Earth | EASC10004 | 20 |
| Environmental Geoscience 1 | EASC10002 | 40 |
| 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 | ||
| French for General Purposes Level 1 Grade 2 (post GCSE) | LANG12022 | 20 |
| French for General Purposes Level 1 Grade 3 (post A'Level) | LANG13022 | 20 |
| Further Foundation Mathematics | MATH10007 | 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 | ||
| Galaxies and the Universe | PHYS11500 | 20 |
| Geology 1 | EASC10001 | 40 |
| German for General Purposes Level 1 Grade 2 (post GCSE) | LANG12023 | 20 |
| German for General Purposes Level 1 Grade 1 (ab-initio) | LANG11043 | 20 |
| German for General Purposes Level 1 Grade 3 (post A'Level) | LANG13023 | 20 |
| 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 | ||
| History of Thought | CLAS12366 | 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 | ||
| Japanese for General Purposes (ab-initio) | LANG11046 | 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 | ||
| Key Social Thinkers | SOCI10006 | 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 | ||
| Language (Advanced) | MODL10014 | 40 |
| Language for General Purposes (Ab-initio Mandarin Chinese) | LANG11047 | 20 |
| Language for General Purposes - French Level 1, Grade 1 | LANG11042 | 20 |
| 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 |
| Miracles in the Christian Tradition | THRS10055 | 20 |
| Modern Italy | ITAL10029 | 20 |
| Modern Standard Arabic Level 1 Grade 1 | LANG10012 | 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 |
| People and Cultures of the British Isles | ARCH10011 | 20 |
| Performance Forms and Analysis | DRAM11004 | 20 |
| Philosophical Text 3: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics | PHIL10008 | 10 |
| Philosophical Texts 1: Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion | PHIL10003 | 10 |
| Philosophical Texts: Plato | PHIL10024 | 10 |
| Planet Earth | EASC10003 | 20 |
| Preliminary Physics A - Mechanics, Waves and Optics | PHYS10003 | 20 |
| Preliminary Physics B - Electromagnetism, Thermodynamics and Atomic Physics | PHYS10002 | 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 |
| Russian for General Purposes Level 1 Grade 1 | LANG10006 | 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 | ||
| Segregation and inequality in the UK (measurement and debate) | SPOL10017 | 20 |
| 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 |
| Social Policy and the Welfare State: Theoretical Perspectives | SPOL10012 | 20 |
| Spanish for General Purposes Level 1 Grade 1 (ab-initio) | LANG11045 | 20 |
| Spanish for General Purposes Level 1 Grade 2 (post GCSE) | LANG12025 | 20 |
| Spanish for General Purposes Level 1 Grade 3 (post A'Level) | LANG13025 | 20 |
| Stars and Planets 106 | PHYS10600 | 20 |
| Sustainable Development | UNIV10001 | 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 | ||
| Texts in Modern Political Philosophy | PHIL10027 | 10 |
| The Archaeology of Myth: From the Trojan War to the end of Atlantis | CLAS12384 | 20 |
| The Body in Antiquity | CLAS10010 | 20 |
| The Body, Gender and Religion | THRS10042 | 20 |
| 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 |
| 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 | ||
| Divine Love in Hinduism: From Devotion to Tantra | THRS10054 | 20 |
