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 | ||
| Academic Listening and Speaking | LANG10007 | 0 |
| Academic Reading and Writing | LANG10008 | 0 |
| Advanced English Language Studies | LANG14011 | 0 |
| Approaches to Poetry | ENGL10026 | 0 |
| Approaches to the Study of Religion | THRS10030 | 0 |
| 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 Brazilian Portuguese | UWLP10007 | 0 |
| Beginners Czech | UWLP10017 | 0 |
| Beginners French | UWLP10001 | 0 |
| Beginners German | UWLP10004 | 0 |
| Beginners Italian | UWLP10014 | 0 |
| Beginners Japanese | UWLP10012 | 0 |
| Beginners Korean | UWLP10018 | 0 |
| Beginners Mandarin Chinese | UWLP10013 | 0 |
| Beginners Modern Standard Arabic | UWLP10008 | 0 |
| Beginners Russian | UWLP10016 | 0 |
| Beginners Spanish | UWLP10009 | 0 |
| 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 | ||
| Classics of European Cinema | MODL10010 | 0 |
| Communication and the Classics: Messengers, Witnesses, Parasites | CLAS10032 | 0 |
| Contemporary European Cinema | MODL10009 | 0 |
| Critical Concepts in the Study of the Hispanic World | HISP10010 | 0 |
| 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 History and Thought | GERM10037 | 0 |
| German Literature and Film: Genres, Texts, Contexts | GERM10035 | 0 |
| 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 | ||
| Heresy and Reform in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras | THRS10062 | 0 |
| Historical Studies 1: Western Art Music (up to 1750) | MUSI10045 | 0 |
| Historical Studies II : Western Art Music (1750 to the present day) | MUSI10046 | 0 |
| 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 | ||
| Indian Philosophy | THRS10056 | 0 |
| Intermediate French | UWLP10003 | 0 |
| Intermediate German | UWLP10006 | 0 |
| Intermediate Spanish | UWLP10011 | 0 |
| Introduction to Czech History and Culture | RUSS10038 | 0 |
| Introduction to Early Modern History | HIST13012 | 0 |
| Introduction to Early-Modern Art | HART10216 | 0 |
| Introduction to Japanese Religions | THRS10059 | 0 |
| Introduction to Medieval Art | HART10215 | 0 |
| Introduction to Medieval History | HIST13011 | 0 |
| Introduction to Modern Art | HART10217 | 0 |
| Introduction to Russian Literature | RUSS10037 | 0 |
| Introduction to Sanskrit I: Grammar | THRS10017 | 0 |
| Introduction to Sanskrit II: Texts | THRS10018 | 0 |
| Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language | LANG10120 | 0 |
| Introduction to the History of the British Empire: Rise, Fall and Legacies | HIST13014 | 0 |
| Introduction to the Study of Cultures | MODL10011 | 0 |
| 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 | ||
| Living Religions | THRS10028 | 0 |
| 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 | ||
| Miracles in the Christian Tradition | THRS10055 | 0 |
| Modern Italy | ITAL10029 | 0 |
| 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 | ||
| Pagan Religions of the Roman Empire | CLAS17003 | 0 |
| Philosophical Texts 1: Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion | PHIL10003 | 0 |
| Post-Beginners French | UWLP10002 | 0 |
| Post-Beginners German | UWLP10005 | 0 |
| Post-Beginners Italian | UWLP10015 | 0 |
| Post-Beginners Spanish | UWLP10010 | 0 |
| 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 | ||
| Religion and Material Culture | THRS11051 | 0 |
| 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 of Myth: From the Trojan War to the end of Atlantis | CLAS12384 | 0 |
| The Bible and/as Literature | THRS10047 | 0 |
| The Religious World of Dante | THRS10050 | 0 |
| The Renaissance and the Rise of the Modern Age | THRS10041 | 0 |
| 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 Russia: Critical Approaches | RUSS10039 | 0 |
| 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 | ||
| World Processors: Scientific and Medical Poetry from Parmenides to Padel | CLAS10031 | 0 |
