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 | ||
| Ancients and moderns: cultures of humanism in Renaissance Europe | MODL30002 | 20 |
| Anticipating the End: Russian Thought in the Shadow of Revolution (1890-1917) | RUSS30059 | 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 |
| Comparative Social Policy in a Globalizing World | SPOL30048 | 20 |
| Computational Bioinformatics | COMS30003 | 10 |
| Contemporary British Cinema | MODL30007 | 20 |
| Contemporary Hollywood Cinema | DRAM33127 | 20 |
| Contemporary Theatre | DRAM33126 | 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 | ||
| Diet and Dating in Prehistory | ARCH30023 | 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 |
| 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 Business and Professional Purposes Level 3 | LANG34013 | 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 | ||
| Health Care Policies | SPOL31018 | 20 |
| Health Policy in a Global Context | SPOL30055 | 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 Mandarin Chinese | LANG31047 | 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 | ||
| Japanese for General Purposes Intermediate | LANG31046 | 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 | ||
| Markets, Government and Public Policy | SPOL30021 | 20 |
| Modern Mathematical Biology | MATH30004 | 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 | ||
| Poverty, Social Exclusion and Social Policy | SPOL30019 | 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 and the Environment | SPOL32032 | 20 |
| Social Policy in East Asia | SPOL30049 | 20 |
| Societal Change and the Transformation of Work | SPOL32025 | 20 |
| Spanish and Business Studies | HISP30039 | 20 |
| Spanish for Business and Professional Purposes Level 3 | LANG34015 | 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 | ||
| Theorising Social Welfare II | SPOL31002 | 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 | SPOL30054 | 20 |
