Scottish Literature/Spanish

Scottish literature and Spanish brings together two distinct literary and cultural traditions, asking you to develop real expertise in both while also discovering the unexpected connections between them. Scottish literature encompasses writing in Scots, Gaelic, and English from the medieval period to the present, including poetry, fiction, drama, and a rich tradition of political and cultural writing that reflects Scotland's complex and often contested relationship with its own identity, its neighbours, and the wider world. Spanish is one of the most widely spoken languages on earth, and Spanish-language literature ranges from the Golden Age poetry and drama of the Iberian Peninsula through the magical realism of twentieth-century Latin America to contemporary fiction, film, and poetry across dozens of national traditions.

The combination is genuinely ambitious, and it produces graduates with an unusual depth of comparative literary and linguistic understanding.

At the University of Glasgow, this five-year full-time programme takes both strands seriously. You will study Spanish with staff who are native speakers from different parts of the Spanish-speaking world, building genuine linguistic proficiency alongside your literary and cultural knowledge. The Scottish literature strand benefits from Glasgow's outstanding expertise in this field, with one of the strongest research communities in the UK working on Scottish writing in all three of the country's languages.

The programme includes a sandwich year in industry and work placement opportunities, giving you professional experience before you graduate and helping you to build the networks that matter in competitive creative and educational fields. The typical entry tariff of 200 points reflects the combination's demands.

Graduates work in publishing, education, translation, journalism, cultural organisations, broadcasting, and a wide range of roles in the creative and public sectors. Many continue to postgraduate study in Scottish studies, Hispanic literature, comparative literature, or creative writing.