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 | ||
| Academic Listening and Speaking | LANG10007 | 10 |
| Academic Reading and Writing | LANG10008 | 10 |
| Advanced English Language Studies | LANG14011 | 20 |
| Analysis in Management | EFIM10003 | 20 |
| Approaches to Shakespeare | ENGL10027 | 20 |
| Approaches to the study of Political Science | POLI11104 | 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 | ||
| British Prehistory | ARCH12011 | 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 II: Children and Contemporary Society | SOWK10002 | 20 |
| Classics of European Cinema | MODL10010 | 20 |
| Comedy | CLAS12370 | 20 |
| Comparative Government and Politics: An Introduction | POLI11103 | 20 |
| Comparative and International Social Policy | SPOL10014 | 20 |
| Contemporary Russia through the Media | RUSS10034 | 20 |
| Contemporary Writing | ENGL10016 | 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 | ||
| Doing Social Research | SOCI10005 | 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 | ||
| English for Academic Purposes - Part 2 (Science and Engineering) | LANG10003 | 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 | ||
| Galaxies and the Universe | PHYS11500 | 20 |
| Ghosts, Death and the Afterlife | THRS11055 | 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 Accounting | ACCG10052 | 20 |
| Introduction to Aegean and Greek Archaeology | ARCH14008 | 20 |
| Introduction to Biological Psychology | PSYC10009 | 10 |
| Introduction to Czech History and Culture | RUSS10038 | 20 |
| Introduction to Developmental Psychology | PSYC10008 | 10 |
| Introduction to Early Modern History | HIST13012 | 20 |
| Introduction to Early-Modern Art | HART10216 | 20 |
| Introduction to Philosophy B | PHIL10006 | 20 |
| Introduction to Sanskrit II: Texts | THRS10018 | 20 |
| Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language | LANG10120 | 20 |
| Introduction to the Philosophy of Science | PHIL10015 | 10 |
| Introduction to the Study of Cultures | MODL10011 | 20 |
| Issues in the Study of Religion | THRS10031 | 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 | ||
| Journeying: Discovering the World, Creating Ourselves | GEOG16002 | 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 | ||
| Philosophical Text 3: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics | PHIL10008 | 10 |
| Philosophical Texts 1: Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion | PHIL10003 | 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 | ||
| Religious and Cultural Change in India: from Indus to Islam | THRS10033 | 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 Policy and the Welfare State: Theoretical Perspectives | SPOL10012 | 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 Foundations of Buddhist Thought and Practice | THRS10045 | 20 |
| The Religious World of Dante | THRS10050 | 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 | ||
| Well-being and Society | ARCH10008 | 20 |
| World in Crisis? | GEOG16001 | 20 |
