对丰富的古典主义历史的理解为学生提供了敏锐的视角，可以通过它观看现代世界。现在我们面对的许多问题都在古代地中海地区经历过，当时的人们进行了深刻的讨论：文化特征，滥用政治权力和煽动者的兴起，自然养育的辩论，难民和寻求庇护者的困境，帝国主义和殖民主义等具有问题的性质。我们所知道的诸如民主，哲学，戏剧，修辞学和心理学等重要概念的词汇恰恰是希腊语的起源，表明它们是古希腊的发明。同样，罗马的文化遗产影响深远，尤其是在文学，艺术方面，尤其是在建筑，行政和立法方面。
Studying the ancient cultures of Greece and Rome shows us how our modern world formed. Everything from western politics to philosophy, science to architecture, language to storytelling had their origins in these great civilisations, and there are even connections we can make to current events today that have been experienced in the past.<br>At UC, you will be able to customise your Classics studies to different topics that interest you, such as art and architecture, politics, drama and written works, ancient language, and even sociology and daily life of the people.<br>Seeing the entire history of the Ancient Greek and Roman civilisations teaches you a lot about how to analyse events to understand other cultures and viewpoints, and how society and politics develop and work, especially towards world relations and current affairs.<br><br>Career pathways could include: museum curatorship, political relations, foreign affairs, policy, conservation and archaeology, communications.