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 | ||
| Advanced Legal Research Methods and Legal System | LAWDM1008 | 10 |
| Advanced Legal and Socio-Legal Research Methods | LAWDM0084 | 20 |
| Alchemy, Magic & Science in Early Modernity | THRSM0102 | 20 |
| Ancient Jewish Novels | THRSM0103 | 20 |
| Atheism | THRSM0107 | 20 |
| Audio-Visual Culture | HARTM0027 | 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 | ||
| Biophysics and Molecular Life Sciences I | BIOCM0008 | 20 |
| Biophysics and Molecular Life Sciences II | BIOCM0009 | 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 | ||
| Cancer Biology | PANMM0014 | 20 |
| Cardiovascular Research | PHPHM0005 | 20 |
| Charles Dickens | ENGLM3019 | 20 |
| Contemporary Film | DRAMM0017 | 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 | ||
| Dissertation | BIOCM0005 | 60 |
| Domestic Violence: Research, Policy and Activism | SPOLM5010 | 20 |
| Dynamics of Networks | EMATM0008 | 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 | ||
| European Society | MODLM2046 | 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 | ||
| Further Qualitative Methods | SPOLM0017 | 20 |
| Further Quantitative Methods | SPOLM0016 | 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 | ||
| Infection, Immunology and Immunity | PANMM0015 | 20 |
| Introduction to Social Work Research | SPOLM5013 | 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 | ||
| Law Gender and Sexuality | LAWDM0033 | 30 |
| 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 | ||
| Medieval Mystics and Visionaries in Medieval England | THRSM0100 | 20 |
| Modern Mathematical Biology | MATHM0014 | 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 | ||
| Neuroscience | PHPHM0006 | 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 | ||
| Performing the Body | DRAMM1114 | 20 |
| Pharmacology | PHPHM0007 | 20 |
| Policy Processes and Policy Research | SPOLM5008 | 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 | ||
| Reflection on Religious Pluralism in Contemporary Society | THRSM0101 | 20 |
| Research Methods and Questions: Working with Theatre and Performance Archives | DRAMM0019 | 20 |
| Researching Child and Family Welfare | SPOLM0011 | 20 |
| Researching Health and Social Care | SPOLM5004 | 20 |
| Researching Poverty, Inequality and Social Exclusion | SPOLM5011 | 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 and Legal Theory | LAWDM0083 | 20 |
| Socio-legal Research Methods | LAWDM1007 | 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 | ||
| The Dynamic Cell | BIOCM0007 | 20 |
| The Persian Empire | CLASM0048 | 20 |
