Some of the pupils enjoying a taste of the arts and humanities.
Pembroke, St. Catharine's and Trinity Colleges, Cambridge and Wadham College, Oxford teamed up to offer an Arts and Humanities Taster Day for Year 12 students on Saturday 25th February. Participants came from twelve different schools for a series of taster workshops aimed at introducing them to the nature of these degree courses and the wealth of opportunities on offer at university and beyond. The day covered modern political history (Dr. Lucy Delap, St. Catharine's College ), music and classics (Dr. Jenny Tamplin, Wadham College ), Russian literature (Dr Muireann Maguire, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages , University of Oxford) and social anthropology (Luke Buckley, Wadham College ). The sessions were designed to introduce participants to new topics and areas of study and to help them to develop valuable critical and analytical skills for both sixth form and future university studies. The Year 12 students had the opportunity to analyse source material and discuss, with one another and the Oxford and Cambridge academics, the gender politics of Margaret Thatcher, representations of Oedipus Rex in opera, characterisation in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and the role of anthropology. One participant said: "The lecturers opened my eyes to the different areas of humanities subjects." A second said "I can now see their value. It's very easy when surrounded by the scientists to forget that the arts and humanities are just as important in their own way." Students visited the different Cambridge Colleges for a taste of undergraduate life, enjoying lunch and a tour with current undergraduate students and also met recent graduates in the field of arts and humanities.
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