English Literature/Business and Management

English literature and business and management is an unusual pairing that reflects a genuine truth about what contemporary organisations need. The ability to communicate clearly, to understand audiences, to interpret complex documents, and to think creatively about problems are skills that literature develops and that business consistently demands. At the same time, understanding how organisations work, how markets behave, and how decisions are made and implemented provides literary graduates with a practical framework that enriches their ability to act in the world.

At Glasgow you will study this programme part time, combining your studies with other commitments while working through both disciplines across the breadth of their offerings. A year abroad is available within the programme, giving you the opportunity to experience both literary and business education in a different cultural and institutional context. Your English literature study will take you across all aspects of literature in English from the early modern to the postmodern, drawing on Glasgow's expertise in American, Irish, and postcolonial literatures, critical theory, creative writing, and the relationship between literature and other arts, media and science.

Your business and management study will give you grounding in the core disciplines of management, strategy, marketing, and organisational behaviour.

Graduates with this combination are well placed for careers in marketing and communications, publishing, management roles in arts and cultural organisations, human resources, consulting, journalism, and a wide range of commercial and public sector positions where the ability to manage people and projects sits alongside strong writing and analytical skills. The breadth of the degree is its strength, and many graduates bring distinctive creative and communicative skills to organisations that might otherwise recruit only from business or management programmes. Postgraduate study in either literature or business is a natural continuation for those who wish to specialise.