History/Italian

History and Italian is a combination that places the study of the human past alongside deep engagement in one of the world's great cultural languages. History, as the University of Glasgow puts it, is the study of change and continuity in human society through time, and Glasgow offers a wide-ranging programme from medieval to modern periods and across the globe. Italian carries one of the richest literary and artistic traditions in European culture, from Dante and Petrarch to Calvino and Morante, and connects you to a living language spoken by millions of people in Italy and the Italian diaspora worldwide.

The University of Glasgow's five-year full-time History and Italian degree carries a typical entry tariff of 200 points and includes a sandwich year with work placement opportunities, giving you professional experience in an Italian-speaking or history-related context before you graduate. You will develop Italian to a high level of proficiency, studying the language alongside literature and culture, while the history strand draws on Glasgow's research expertise in Scottish, British, European, US, and global history, as well as slavery studies, gender history, and war, intelligence, and genocide studies. The combination asks you to engage with the past both analytically, through historical argument, and linguistically, through Italian texts and cultural contexts.

Graduates work in education, cultural organisations, heritage, museums and archives, journalism, the civil service, international business, translation and interpreting, and a wide range of roles where the combination of historical knowledge and Italian language is a distinctive advantage. Italy's significance in European politics, business, art, and fashion means that Italian alongside history is a practically useful combination as well as an intellectually rich one. Postgraduate study in Italian, history, European studies, or archives is a natural next step for those wishing to specialise.