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 |
| AVDASI 2 - Systems Engineering | AENG21360 | 10 |
| Advanced English Language Studies | LANG14011 | 20 |
| Advanced Space Systems | AENGM2400 | 10 |
| Aircraft Operations | AENG24630 | 10 |
| Anthropology of Africa | ANTH20004 | 20 |
| Anthropology of India | ANTH30006 | 20 |
| Anthropology of Religion | ANTH10005 | 20 |
| Approaches to Shakespeare | ENGL10029 | 20 |
| Astronomy 1 | PHYS10500 | 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 | ||
| Beginners' German Language 1 | GERM19001 | 20 |
| 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 | ||
| Deaf People in Society | DEAF10025 | 20 |
| Democracy and US Government | POLI21226 | 20 |
| Demography, Life Course and Social Policy | SPOL20012 | 20 |
| Demography, Life Course and Social Policy | SPOL31012 | 20 |
| Development Studies | POLI21213 | 20 |
| Discrete Mathematics and Numerical Methods for Computer Science | EMAT10702 | 20 |
| Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science I | EMAT10714 | 10 |
| Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science II | EMAT10724 | 10 |
| 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 | ||
| Elementary Statistics | MATH10510 | 10 |
| Engineering Mathematics 1 | EMAT10100 | 20 |
| Engineering Physics | EMAT10005 | 20 |
| English as a Foreign Language 2 | LANG01221 | 20 |
| English for Academic Purposes | LANG10031 | 10 |
| English for Academic Purposes (STABEL) | LANG10010 | 10 |
| English for Academic Purposes - Part 1 (Science and Engineering) | LANG10002 | 10 |
| English for Academic Purposes - Part 2 (Science and Engineering) | LANG10003 | 10 |
| English for Business and Professional Purposes | LANG14021 | 20 |
| Environment Earth | EASC10004 | 20 |
| Environmental Geoscience 1 | EASC10002 | 40 |
| Epic | CLAS12361 | 20 |
| European Human Rights Law | LAWD30121 | 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 Professional Purposes Level 3 | LANG34012 | 10 |
| French for General Purposes Level 1 Grade 2 (post GCSE) | LANG12022 | 20 |
| French for General Purposes Level 1 Grade 2 (post GCSE) | LANG12012 | 10 |
| French for General Purposes Level 1 Grade 3 (post A'Level) | LANG13022 | 20 |
| French for General Purposes Level 1 Grade 3 (post A'Level) | LANG13012 | 10 |
| French for Medical Studies Level 1 Grade 3 (post A' level) | LANG13302 | 10 |
| French for Specific Purposes Level 2 Grade 2 | LANG22012 | 10 |
| French for Specific Purposes Level 2 Grade 2 | LANG22022 | 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 Care Policies | SPOL31018 | 20 |
| Health Care Policies | SPOL21018 | 20 |
| Health Policy in a Global Context | SPOL20055 | 20 |
| Health Policy in a Global Context | SPOL30055 | 20 |
| History of Thought | CLAS12366 | 20 |
| Homeric Society | CLAS12343 | 20 |
| Human-Computer Interaction | COMS21301 | 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 | ||
| Japanese for General Purposes (ab-initio) | LANG11046 | 20 |
| Japanese for General Purposes (post-intermediate) | LANG32046 | 20 |
| Japanese for General Purposes Intermediate | LANG31046 | 20 |
| Japanese for General Purposes Pre-Intermediate | LANG21046 | 20 |
| Jewish Law | LAWD30109 | 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 for General Purposes (Ab-initio Mandarin Chinese) | LANG11047 | 20 |
| Language for General Purposes - French Level 1, Grade 1 | LANG11042 | 20 |
| Language for Science and Technology (French) Level 1 Grade 2 | LANG12042 | 20 |
| Language for Science and Technology (Spanish) Level 1 Grade 2 (post GCSE) | LANG12045 | 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 | ||
| Magic in the Graeco-Roman World | CLAS12360 | 20 |
| Mandarin Chinese for General Purposes (pre-intermediate) | LANG21047 | 20 |
| Marx's Political Writings | PHIL10018 | 10 |
| Mathematics 1A20 | MATH11004 | 20 |
| Mathematics 1AM | MATH10100 | 40 |
| Mathematics 1AS | MATH10300 | 40 |
| Mathematics 1EM | MATH10600 | 40 |
| Mathematics 1ES | MATH10500 | 40 |
| Mathematics 1FS | MATH10530 | 20 |
| Migration Policy in the UK and European Union | SPOL20030 | 20 |
| Migration Policy in the UK and European Union | SPOL30030 | 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 | ||
| Personal Welfare Services | SPOL20053 | 20 |
| Personal Welfare Services | SPOL30053 | 20 |
| Philosophical Text 3: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics | PHIL10008 | 10 |
| Philosophical Texts 2: Plato's Apology, Meno & Phaedo | PHIL10007 | 10 |
| Physics 1E | PHYS10300 | 40 |
| Planet Earth | EASC10003 | 20 |
| Political Anthropology | ANTH30007 | 20 |
| Politics and Policy-Making in the UK | POLI21222 | 20 |
| Principles of Economics | EFIM10050 | 20 |
| Psychology 1 | PSYC10001 | 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 | ||
| Rational Choice | POLI21203 | 20 |
| Rome: Republic to Principate | CLAS12383 | 20 |
| Russian Language (ab initio) | RUSS10001 | 40 |
| Russian Language (for qualified entrants) | RUSS10036 | 20 |
| Russian Orthodox Culture | RUSS20044 | 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 Hellenistic World | CLAS12382 | 20 |
| The History of Philosophical Scepticism from Pyrrho to Derrida | PHIL10019 | 10 |
| The Politics of Sub-Saharan Africa | POLI21231 | 20 |
| Theorising Social Welfare 1 | SPOL31001 | 20 |
| Theorising Social Welfare I | SPOL21001 | 20 |
| Theorising Social Welfare II | SPOL21002 | 20 |
| Thinking Sociologically | SOCI10004 | 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 | ||
| Understanding Contemporary China | CEAS10001 | 20 |
| Understanding Japanese Society | CEAS10002 | 20 |
| Understanding Public Policy | SPOL20054 | 20 |
| Understanding Public Policy | SPOL30054 | 20 |
| Understanding Urban Society | SPOL20023 | 20 |
| Understanding Urban Society | SPOL30023 | 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 | ||
| Viewing the City of Rome | CLAS12357 | 20 |
| Violence against Women | SPOL20013 | 20 |
| Violence against Women | SPOL31013 | 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 | ||
| What is the Good Life? | CLAS12354 | 20 |
| World in Crisis? | GEOG16001 | 20 |
