Portuguese/History

Portuguese embraces the study of the languages, literatures and cultures of Brazil, Portugal and the wider Portuguese-speaking world.

Portuguese at Glasgow offers a varied programme, in which you will work in small groups with native speakers from Portugal and Brazil. The programme has long-established links with the Instituto Camões. You will have full access to our Language Resources Centre, which offers excellent audiovisual, digital and printed materials.

History: The study of history is the study of change and continuity in human society through time. Glasgow offers a wide-ranging programme from medieval to modern times.

Our teaching draws on world-leading research expertise in:

Scottish, British, European, U.S. and global history

Slavery studies

Gender history

War, intelligence and genocide studies

We offer a broad range of courses ranging from medieval to modern times and across the globe. We provide small group teaching, a variety of assessments (including real-world tasks like policy papers and blogs) and one-to-one feedback tutorials.

We host leading research centres in gender history, war studies, slavery studies, American studies and Scottish and Celtic studies.