Spanish/Sociology

Spanish and sociology is a pairing that brings together one of the world's most widely spoken languages and the academic discipline most directly concerned with how societies are organised and how inequality, culture, and power operate within them. Spanish opens access to the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America, two regions with extraordinarily rich and politically charged histories that have made major contributions to sociological thinking about colonialism, inequality, social movements, and democratic transition. Sociology gives you the theoretical and methodological tools to analyse those social realities rigorously and comparatively.

At the University of Glasgow, this five-year full-time programme builds genuine linguistic fluency alongside serious sociological study. You will learn Spanish with staff who are native speakers from different parts of the Spanish-speaking world, developing reading, writing, and oral competence that allows you to engage with Spanish-language sociology, journalism, and culture in the original. The sociology strand covers the major theoretical traditions of the discipline, social research methods, and substantive topics including inequality, work, urban life, migration, and globalisation.

The programme includes a sandwich year in industry and work placement opportunities, both of which give you professional experience before you graduate and help you build the networks that matter in competitive graduate job markets.

A typical entry tariff of 184 points reflects the combined academic demands of the programme. Graduates work in social research, international organisations, public policy, journalism, education, development work, human resources, and the charity sector. The combination of Spanish language proficiency and sociological analysis is particularly valuable in roles concerned with Latin America, migration, international development, and cross-cultural communication.

Many graduates continue to postgraduate study in sociology, development studies, or Latin American studies.