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 | ||
| 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 |
| Anthropological Hypotheses | ARCH20047 | 20 |
| Approaches to the Study of Religion | THRS20098 | 20 |
| Archaic Greece | CLAS22352 | 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 (Elementary) | MODL23014 | 20 |
| Changing Families and the State | SPOL21008 | 20 |
| Chekhov on the World Stage | RUSS20014 | 20 |
| Clash of religions: Christianity and Islam | THRS20106 | 20 |
| Comparative Social Policy in a Globalizing World | SPOL20048 | 20 |
| Conservation Biology | BIOL20401 | 10 |
| Czech Language (Elementary) | MODL23015 | 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 | ||
| Developmental and Cellular Physiology of the Specialised Cell | PHPH20010 | 20 |
| Divine Love and Ritual Sex: Hindu paths to liberation | THRS20104 | 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 | ||
| Early and Premodern Christianity | THRS20100 | 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 | ||
| Film and Television Histories | DRAM23123 | 20 |
| Film and the Ancient World | CLAS22350 | 20 |
| 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 | LANG22022 | 20 |
| French for Specific Purposes Level 2 Grade 2 | LANG22012 | 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 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 | LANG22013 | 10 |
| German for Specific Purposes Level 2 Grade 2 | LANG22023 | 20 |
| Green Planet | BIOL20013 | 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 | SPOL21018 | 20 |
| Health Policy in a Global Context | SPOL20055 | 20 |
| History of the USA Before 1865 | MODL23009 | 20 |
| History of the USA Since 1865 | MODL23010 | 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 | ||
| Integrative Physiology | PHPH20008 | 20 |
| Introduction to Disability Studies | SPOL20018 | 20 |
| Introduction to Linguistics | MODL23013 | 20 |
| Introduction to Sanskrit 1 | THRS20188 | 20 |
| Introduction to Sanskrit 2 | THRS20189 | 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 | ||
| Mandarin Chinese for General Purposes (pre-intermediate) | LANG21047 | 20 |
| Marine Ecology and Physiology | BIOL21403 | 10 |
| Markets, Government and Public Policy | SPOL20017 | 20 |
| Mechatronics | MENG26004 | 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 | ||
| Neurophysiology | PHPH20009 | 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 | ||
| Performance Histories | DRAM23125 | 20 |
| Political Systems of Modern Europe | MODL20008 | 20 |
| Poverty, Social Exclusion and Social Policy | SPOL20019 | 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 |
| 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 | ||
| Sacred Scripture and Popular Culture | THRS20105 | 20 |
| Social Policy and Development | SPOL20050 | 20 |
| Social Policy and the Environment | SPOL22032 | 20 |
| Social Policy in East Asia | SPOL20049 | 20 |
| Social Research Methods | SOAD20004 | 20 |
| Societal Change and the Transformation of Work | SPOL22030 | 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 |
| 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 Archaeology and Topography of Ancient Greece | ARCH20021 | 20 |
| The Archaeology of Myth: From the Trojan War to the end of Atlantis | CLAS22384 | 20 |
| The Bible in the Academy | THRS20093 | 20 |
| The Philosophy of Religion | THRS20102 | 20 |
| The Renaissance and the Rise of the Modern Age | THRS20108 | 20 |
| The Struggle for Russia: 19th-century Debates on Self and Society | RUSS20012 | 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 | THRS20103 | 20 |
| ‘Hedgehogs and Foxes’: The Nineteenth-Century Russian Novel 2019 | RUSS20013 | 20 |
