社会与公共政策关注贫困，无家可归和健康不良等社会问题。该计划运用政治学，社会学和经济学的思想来探索政府如何塑造自己的反应，并理解公共政策对社会的影响。您将获得与志愿组织或公共部门组织一起工作的宝贵机会。您将通过着眼于1942年著名的《贝弗里奇报告》来研究为消除战后社会问题而制定的政策和服务（如健康和社会保障）的发展，该报告确定了匮乏，疾病，肮脏，无知和闲散的五大巨人。然后，利用格拉斯哥的经验作为镜头，您将有机会研究对诸如犯罪，青年团伙，滥用毒品和城市贫困等社会问题的当前应对措施。您将研究有关福利和公共政策
You will explore all aspects of literature in English, benefiting from our expertise in a wide range of areas, including American, Irish and postcolonial literatures, critical theory, creative writing, and the relationship between literature and other arts, media and science. You will benefit from access to our world-class Hunterian and Library collections, with strengths in the 18th- and 19th-centuries, travel, illuminated manuscripts and significant single-author holdings.<br>The first course focuses on poetry and the second on narrative prose. You will develop skills in critical and creative writing and in analysing and arguing about literature while gaining insights into how speaking and performing texts enhances literary study. Both courses contain diverse texts from different periods and cultures. There are also opportunities to develop creative skills in writing poetry and fiction.<br>A degree in English Literature is highly respected in the current job market, not just by employers in the arts, education and media sectors but also in public relations, finance, business and technology. This is because graduates possess valuable skills for the future, such as argumentation, cognitive flexibility, coordinating with others, creativity and critical analysis and we work hard, with the support of our careers support advisers, to prepare our students for a wide range of future employment.