Can we please get a video about interviews for an education degree 😊?

Is it an adaptation?

Can you clarify the difference in courses under archaeology and anthropology & history at university of Oxford

Too busy filming TikToks to give out interviews…

For masters also?))

Can you clarify the difference in courses under archaeology and anthropology & history at university of Oxford

I think the study of humanity, especially in the ancient world provides me with great insight into today's world. Life changes, we grow.

In all honesty I absolutely digging holes for no reason. I surprised my parents with a pond one day.

It’s 6?

Thank you so much, Dr. Matthew Williams, for all those videos you have created so far. Your videos have ignited my hidden (honestly, which I assumed quite impossible) dream of studying at Oxford. I am now really motivated and thrilled even on my way of training myself to think of myself and to think creatively. The lecture videos are indeed a great help. I'll be looking forward to your future videos.

Coming from the US, hearing that extracurriculars have no bearing on admission is absolutely wild!

I have to submit an unmarked piece of written work written by me in my free time, but the cover sheet requires the details of the written work written by the teacher, is there any way i can submit it in this case?

You are great. Thanks.

I'd say :"historically and statistically, not relevant to the type of people that generally attends this university"

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Looking at past reading lists, they seem to reflect what is considered the literary canon, the group of works that are the most remembered throughout history and have had a great deal of impact on fiction, so works like that of Shakespeare are included due to the scale of his influence on the English language through his coining of new terms, and because his plays have been so often reinvented, they can tell us a lot about Jacobean society. Part of the study of English is examining literary history both as a way to understand our past (the historicist angle). Because twilight is something relatively recent we don’t know whether it will become a part of the canon, and can’t be sure of the impact it will have on literary history, but I would argue that some of the books you will find on reading lists aren’t so dissimilar from twilight, they’re often the popular media of their time. There is also arguably bias against literature made for younger audiences, in this case teenagers, often the literature that is studied and remembered is that which depicts contemporary society (i.e things like Dickens) and therefore can be used to understand history. I’d posit that in future twilight may end up on reading lists, but right now we can’t know what sort of impact it will have on literary history, and whether future critics will find it useful to understand the time it was written (although I would argue it’s a really interesting portrait of contemporary attitudes towards sexuality, especially those in Mormonism, which the book originates from).

Please make one for Psychology

like this video finds me well 😊 thank God!! I plan to apply to the anthropology evolutionary graduate for the next year. Thanks, Dr. Matt William., had sharing this valuable video. I hope I can be part of the curious people to pursue study in Oxford.

can you do one for biomedical sciences?

In a way Twilight is more of a media or even social phenomenon than it is a literary one in the stictest sense; still it is interesting to study what larger impact it may have had (if any) on the literary world in the sense of what was prioritised in publishing. However I would argue that the relevance of the novel itself was relatively limited, in the sense that amost 20 years after its release the book has disappeared from the convo in favour of the movies

I think fiction and any type of creative writing requires decades of deep study, and reading. Great writing won’t just come out of the blue -it has to be earned through hard work. Thank you so much for being so inspiring!

First of all, we must realize that art is not respected for being popular or being enjoyable to read... Rather being innovative. Twilight happened to resonate with a lot of teenagers fantasies, which is what made it popular, but not necessarily innovative. Shakespeare however, being someone who wrote in the 1600s, invented a lot of things... to put this in perspective, this was a time when Daniel Dafoe wrote novels. His novels had a very flowery and unnecessarily descriptive language, this most likely due to most works of art were poetry, which were also flowery and descriptive. Daniel Dafoe tried to capture that in his writing, which was something innovative but not necessarily enjoyable to read. Shakespeare wrote plays. He was capable of writing such strong characters. Even female ones, which at the time were really objectified in novels like Daniel Dafoe's. Shakespeare wrote to someone like Lady Macbeth, which even to today's standards is one of the most complex female characters. Not to mention everything he has brought into the English language. That is my take, it might not be great since I am not necessarily a literary luminary 😅.

This man being the figure of the jesus college youtube challenge makes me feel some strange sense of comfort. I love him

I think that this is a question which people have asked themselves for centuries and people often tried to translate music into words. Translating music into words is in my opinion that, which writing about music essentially consists of. A good example for this practice of trying to put music into words is programme music. In this genre, composers connected music to a story. The question, if these compositions can be listened to without the accompanying text can easily be answered with ‘yes’. This could be verified by presenting programmical pieces to people without showing them the accompanying text. Then the interviewer could ask them if they liked the music and if they connect it to a story or how they would describe the piece with words. In the next step the scientist can compare the answers and see how the answers differ from one another. Another way to approach the question is by looking into literature regarding common literary figures which relate to music. The researcher can then figure out how these figures changed with time. In the final step the scientist would analyse why the figures changed and why they differ from one another. That way, a possible relation of musical sources to literary change could be identified. If this relation exists, the question if music can be translated into words would be more likely to be answered positively. I would be delighted to receive a reply to this comment. Thank you :)

I can do it if I get a paper,pen and 2 minutes😅

Thank you Dr. Matthew Williams. I needed to hear all of this these days. By the way hello from Turkey :))))

Hi I am going to a discussion group next week discussing private v state education. Your video was very useful and gave me some facts that I can use in my group. There are lots of conspiracy theories out there. Thanks Ngaire

I was wondering when looking at academic profiles holistically and contextual, do you guys consider attainment 8, because my school told me mine is 7.9, whilst theirs is around 52.3

thank you for these videos and shorts - they helped me with my CS interviews as well (current fresher)

I'd love to meet you one day! Hoping to make it into Oxford for 2025 entry 🎉

Does Oxford place more importance on personal statements for master's programs than its bachelors programs?

As a fresher I'm glad you made this video

Thank you so much for your kindness, generosity and support ☀

It has such a good timing. I'm from Germany, and I didn't have a clue it was stressawareness day today. I'm really having a stressful time and day today being in the middle of the exam season, had a big presentation today, and have also been waiting thrilled for the results of my Oxford Application since the Admission Test. This Viedeo really helped to put things in perspective and remind myself what really is important. Btw. I love your Viedeos. They really led me through the whole application process yet.

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hi, I have some specific questions who could i talk with? It’s really my dream to study at Oxford and i would be interessed on talking eoth someone specifically

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Ooh this is really interesting! I think you would have to consider that writing is a much more specific and widely understood form of communication than dance is, so there’s a much greater ability to describe music in writing than to describe architecture through dance. But also, writing cannot communicate music in the same way that musical notation can, so it’s perhaps more efficient to combine notation with writing when analysing music.

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You could also look at how written communication has conventions whereas dancing is less rigid in what counts as fundamentals. Much of classical written communication comes from the upper classes whereas dancing is more ubiquitous so maybe the comparison is flawed in the sense of barriers to entry of the artform as well.

I love this question!!! 😊 I wrote a paper once about how the Bloomsbury group influenced one another… Roger Fry began to deconstruct images through abstract art (River Poplars, 1912), and I believe abstract art influenced Virginia Woolf to deconstruct prose into stream of consciousness (Jacob’s Room, 1922). Perhaps the best explanation contemporary to the time for abstract art was not to explain it… but to “show it” in another medium (literature). So can you write about music? I would say… not as well as one could write musically … or write like music. You can experience music through poetry; in fact, you cannot comprehend poetry without music. Thank you for the beautiful thoughts! ❤️🙌

40 years ago I did the Mensa test when considering a career in IT. I received the gushing letter congratulating me on my IQ score of 146, along with an invitation to do the full test. Fortunately I was intelligent enough to know that the £35 they were asking me to pay was a con. I've done fine in life with just 3 'O' Levels. I put the £35 towards a programming course.

There are no longer royalties payable for the song Happy Birthday in the UK, US and EU because it is in the public domain, decided by a judge in 2015.

I don't suppose you have any advice for what to do with time between tests and (potential) interviews? 😅 If I get one, I won't know till December and that seems like an eternity!

I'm in year 9 and I'm the odd one out in my school.For example others don't like like coming school but I love coming school everyday I didn't take a single day off since I joined high school because I want to learn no matter how I'll I am or whatever reason there is.I don't know why but I love maths,geography,art,music,chemistry,history,sports,product desi I don't have a weak subject other than dance and drama because I'm an introvert.

Matt! Hi, I have a small question, will the application process look at my school transcript? cuz it sucks but i got 5 distinctions out of 9 subjects i took in my IGCSE's, so will my transcript ruin it or not?

This man has saved me metric tons of stress on reassuring me that I'm not blind, and I likely haven't missed anything blindingly obvious, thanks so much!!