Modern Languages for Business Management with Spanish

Spanish is one of the world's great languages, spoken across Europe, Latin America and beyond by hundreds of millions of people, and combining it with business management expertise gives you a distinctive combination of skills that are highly valued by international organisations. This degree at Heriot-Watt University develops your Spanish to an advanced professional level while also giving you a thorough grounding in international business management, producing graduates who can operate effectively across cultural and linguistic borders in commercial settings.

This four-year full-time programme includes a sandwich placement year, a year abroad and a work placement, meaning you will accumulate substantial professional and international experience before you graduate. Your Spanish language study will develop reading, writing, speaking and listening skills to a high professional standard, with particular attention to business and professional registers. The management curriculum covers international trade, marketing, strategy, organisational behaviour, finance, cross-cultural management and the structures of international business.

You will develop not only language competence but the cultural understanding and commercial awareness that effective international business requires.

Graduates from this programme are well placed for careers in multinational companies, international trade organisations, financial services, professional services firms and government departments with international responsibilities. The combination of Spanish language ability and business management expertise opens particular opportunities in Europe and across Latin America, as well as in organisations with Spanish-speaking client bases and operations. The professional placement and international experience built into the degree make graduates especially attractive to employers who need people who can be effective from the outset in international contexts.

Further study in international business, management, Hispanic studies or translation is also a natural pathway.