Careers in Classics

Lawyer – Conducts criminal and civil lawsuits, draws up legal documents, advises clients as to legal rights, and practices other phases of law.
 

Editor – Secures, select, and coordinates publication of manuscripts in book form; reviews submitted manuscript, determines demand based on consumer trends and personal knowledge, and makes recommendations regarding procurement and revision.
 

Foreign Correspondent – Collects and analyzes information about newsworthy events to write news stories for publication or broadcast: Receives assignments or evaluates news tips to develop story idea.

Crossword Puzzle Maker – Develops and creates crossword puzzles: Draws form setting up numbered blank squares for insertion of words and black squares to complete design. May originate puzzles for specific purposes, such as advertisements or holiday specialties.

Sales Manager – Manages sales activities of establishment: Directs staffing, training, and performance evaluations to develop and control sales program. Coordinates sales distribution by establishing sales territories, quotas, and goals and advises dealers, distributors and clients concerning sales and advertising techniques.

Translator – Translates spoken passages from one language into another: Provides consecutive or simultaneous translation between languages.

Curator – Directs and coordinates activities of workers engaged in operating exhibiting institution such as museum, botanical garden, arboretum, art gallery, herbarium, or zoo.

Anthropologist – Makes comparative studies in relations to distribution, origin, evolution, and races of humans, cultures they have created, and their distribution and physical characteristics.

Librarian – Maintains library collection of books, serial publications, documents, audiovisual, and other materials, and assists groups and individuals in locating and obtaining materials.

Professor – Teaches one or more subjects to students in public or private institutions of higher learning: Instructs students, using various teaching methods, such as lecture and demonstration, and uses audiovisual aids and other materials to supplement presentations.

Actor – Portrays role in dramatic production to interpret character or present characterization to audience: Rehearses part to learn lines and cues as directed. Interprets serious or comic role by speech, gesture, and body movement to entertain or inform audience for stage, motion picture, television, radio, or other media production.

High School Teacher - Teaches one or more subjects to students in public or private secondary schools: Instructs students, using various teaching methods, such as lecture and demonstration, and uses audiovisual aids and other materials to supplement presentations.

Director of Institutional Research – Directs and coordinates activities concerned with research and evaluation of operations and programs of college or university: Identifies problem areas, such as admission patterns, fiscal and management analysis, and sources of financial support in order to develop research procedures.

Tour Guide – Plans itineraries and arranges accommodations and other travel services for customers of travel agencies.

Computer Programmer – Converts data from project specifications and statements of problems and procedures to create or modify computer programs.

General Manager – Directs and coordinates activities of industrial organization to obtain optimum efficiency and economy of operations and maximize profit: Plans and develops organization policies and goals, and implements goals through subordinate administrative personnel.

Financial Planner – Develops and implements financial plans for individuals, businesses, and organizations, utilizing knowledge of tax and investment strategies, securities, insurance, pension plans, and real estate.

Scientific Linguist – Studies structure and development of specific language or language group; Traces origin and evolution of words and syntax through comparative analysis of ancient parent languages and modern language groups, studying word and structural characteristics, such as morphology, semantics, phonology, accent, grammar and literature.

Archeologist – Reconstructs record of extinct cultures, especially preliterate cultures of living peoples and of peoples no longer in existence in order to determine historical relations, arrive at typological classifications, and make generalizations particularly pre-industrial and non-Western societies.