English Literature/Latin

English Literature and Latin is a combination that bridges the ancient and the modern, exploring one of the deepest continuities in the Western literary imagination. Latin was the language of the Roman world and remained the medium of European scholarship, theology, and literary composition for more than a millennium after the fall of Rome, and its influence on English literature, from the Renaissance reception of Virgil and Ovid through Milton's classical allusions to modern novelists' engagement with classical myth, is pervasive and profound. Studying both allows you to trace that influence at the source and to read English literature with a fuller understanding of what its writers had read and been shaped by.

At the University of Glasgow, this part-time programme develops your engagement with English literature across all periods and forms alongside your competence in Latin, moving from grammatical foundations through to independent reading of classical texts and scholarly engagement with Latinity in its different historical contexts. You will benefit from Glasgow's particular strengths across American, Irish, postcolonial, and contemporary literatures, as well as in critical theory and the relationship between literature and other arts, media and sciences. A year abroad is available, giving you the opportunity to study in another academic environment.

Graduates of English Literature and Latin programmes develop a distinctive intellectual profile that is valued across a wide range of careers. Publishing, journalism, teaching, the civil service, law, archiving, heritage, and the creative industries are all well-established graduate destinations. The combination of close reading, linguistic precision, and broad cultural frame of reference that the degree cultivates transfers across many professional contexts, and many graduates go on to postgraduate study in English, classical studies, or related fields.

Some pursue academic careers as scholars of English or Latin literature.