Latin/Business & Management

Latin and business management is an unusual combination, but its logic is more compelling than it might initially appear. Latin is one of the most demanding and formative of educational disciplines: it requires precision, patience, and the ability to analyse complex grammatical structures systematically, and it opens access to the vast body of Latin literature, history, and philosophy that shaped European thought for more than two thousand years. Business management provides an equally rigorous training in a very different domain, developing practical and analytical understanding of how organisations function, how markets work, and how decisions are made.

At Glasgow you will read Virgil, Ovid, and other Latin poets, Roman drama, orators, historians, and biographers, developing your knowledge of Roman political history, philosophy, religion, and art alongside language competence. Business management study covers strategy, marketing, finance, operations, and organisational theory, giving you a thorough grounding in how businesses are run and how management decisions are made. The combination develops a range of intellectual abilities that are rarely found together: linguistic precision and grammatical analysis from Latin, and commercial and organisational understanding from business management.

The programme is offered part-time and includes a year abroad, giving you the flexibility to study alongside other commitments while gaining an international perspective.

Graduates go on to careers in management, consulting, law, finance, publishing, heritage, education, and the civil service, among many others. The Latin component opens doors in academia, heritage organisations, and roles requiring exceptional analytical rigour, while business management opens the full range of commercial and public sector careers. Postgraduate study in classical studies, business, law, or humanities is also an option.