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 2 - Systems Engineering | AENG21360 | 10 |
| Aircraft Operations | AENG24630 | 10 |
| American Fiction that Matters: US Writing in 'The American Century' | MODL23012 | 20 |
| Anguish in Eden: Foundations of American Prose Writing | MODL23011 | 20 |
| Anthropology of Africa | ANTH20004 | 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 (ab-initio option) | HISP20043 | 20 |
| Christian Theology and Non-Christian Religions | THRS20089 | 20 |
| Cities, Governance and Urban Sustainability | SPOL22024 | 20 |
| Co-operation and Integration In Europe | POLI21214 | 20 |
| Comparative Social Policy in a Globalizing World | SPOL20048 | 20 |
| Conservation Biology | BIOL20401 | 10 |
| Contemporary Issues in Philosophical Theology | THRS20076 | 20 |
| Contemporary World Politics | POLI22211 | 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 | ||
| French for Specific Purposes Level 2 Grade 1 | LANG21022 | 20 |
| French for Specific Purposes Level 2 Grade 1 (continuation of Level 1 Grade 1) | LANG21012 | 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 | ||
| German for Specific Purposes Level 2 Grade 1 | LANG21023 | 20 |
| German for Specific Purposes Level 2 Grade 1 | LANG21013 | 10 |
| German for Specific Purposes Level 2 Grade 2 | LANG22023 | 20 |
| German for Specific Purposes Level 2 Grade 2 | LANG22013 | 10 |
| Greek Language Level A1 | CLAS20006 | 20 |
| Greek Language Level A2 | CLAS20007 | 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 |
| History of the USA Before 1865 | MODL23009 | 20 |
| History of the USA Since 1865 | MODL23010 | 20 |
| Housing, Economy and Society | SPOL22020 | 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 | ||
| Interpreting Political Texts | POLI22201 | 20 |
| Introduction to Aegean and Greek Archaeology | ARCH20011 | 20 |
| Italian for Specific Purposes Level 2 Grade 1 | LANG21014 | 10 |
| Italian for Specific Purposes Level 2 Grade 1 | LANG21024 | 20 |
| Italian for Specific Purposes Level 2 Grade 2 | LANG22014 | 10 |
| Italian for Specific Purposes Level 2 Grade 2 | LANG22024 | 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 Pre-Intermediate | LANG21046 | 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 | ||
| Mahayana Buddhism | THRS20032 | 20 |
| Mandarin Chinese for General Purposes (pre-intermediate) | LANG21047 | 20 |
| Marine Ecology and Physiology | BIOL21403 | 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 | ||
| Politics of South Asia | POLI29003 | 20 |
| Poverty, Social Exclusion and Social Policy | SPOL20019 | 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 | ||
| Russian Orthodox Culture | RUSS20044 | 20 |
| Russian Thought 1825-1881 | RUSS20039 | 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 |
| Spanish for Specific Purposes Level 2 Grade 1 | LANG21015 | 10 |
| Spanish for Specific Purposes Level 2 Grade 1 | LANG21025 | 20 |
| Spanish for Specific Purposes Level 2 Grade 2 | LANG22015 | 10 |
| Spanish for Specific Purposes Level 2 Grade 2 | LANG22025 | 20 |
| State, Market and Social Policy | SPOL21009 | 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 Theology of Martin Luther | THRS20110 | 20 |
| Theorising Social Welfare II | SPOL21002 | 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 Public Policy | SPOL20054 | 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 | ||
| 3000 Years of Chinese Religions | THRS20075 | 20 |
