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 Japanese | UWLP30003 | 20 |
| Aesthetics of Revolution and Resistance: 21st-Century Images of North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean | FREN30106 | 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 | ||
| Changing Families and the State | SPOL31008 | 20 |
| Child Nutrition, Activity and Health | SPOL30034 | 20 |
| Children and Social Harm | SPOL30060 | 20 |
| Children and Young People in the Law A | SPOL30057 | 20 |
| Children in a Global Context | SPOL32008 | 20 |
| Cities and communities in the urban age | SPOL30062 | 20 |
| Comparative Social Policy in a Globalizing World | SPOL30048 | 20 |
| 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 | ||
| Dostoevsky | RUSS30063 | 20 |
| Drugs and Society | SPOL30011 | 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 | ||
| French for Business and Enterprise | FREN30047 | 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 | SPOL30055 | 20 |
| Housing, Economy and Society | SPOL30020 | 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 | ||
| Intermediate Japanese | UWLP30001 | 20 |
| Intermediate Mandarin Chinese | UWLP30002 | 20 |
| Interprofessional Working in Children's Services | SPOL30037 | 20 |
| Introduction to Sanskrit 1 | THRS30171 | 20 |
| Introduction to Sanskrit 2 | THRS30172 | 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 | ||
| Jewish Law | LAWD30010 | 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 and Literacy in Young Children | SPOL30036 | 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 | ||
| Medieval Music Palaeography | MUSI30121 | 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 | ||
| Punishment in Society | SPOL30052 | 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 | ||
| Reimagining Odysseus | MODL30019 | 20 |
| Reproduction Law, Ethics, and Policy | LAWD30068 | 20 |
| Russia in the 1990s: A Decade of Chaos? | RUSS30065 | 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 | SPOL30050 | 20 |
| Social Policy in East Asia | SPOL30049 | 20 |
| Societal Change and the Transformation of Work | SPOL32025 | 20 |
| Spanish for Business | HISP30057 | 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 Public Role of the Humanities | HUMS30001 | 20 |
| Therapeutic Work with Children | SPOL30035 | 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 |
| Writing Revolution: Russian Literature, 1910-1940 | RUSS30068 | 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 |
