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Signum University has many opportunities for learning and fun, and some of those are absolutely free. The Mythgard Institute is the Cool Free Stuff arm of the university, featuring some of the scholars and personalities of the university sharing what they love most. Many friends of the University have come to us through Mythgard —…

At Signum University there are myriad ways to learn what you love — Welcome to the 2024 Annual Fund Drive full of new programs, announcements, and opportunities. To continue provide our content and pay our staff, our 2024 Annual Fund Drive aims for $200,000 this year — will you be part of our university by…

Anytime Audits are a bundle of recorded lectures, handouts, and a discussion group from our traditional graduate level courses here at Signum University — just for fun, no credit, for the simple Joy of Learning! With a Gift Certificate, your giftee can choose any one of our Anytime Audit courses. That’s right, from now until…

What would it be like to study languages at Signum?  If only we could get a glimpse into the minds of the Germanic Philology Department luminaries! With this in mind, I asked the Germanic Philology professors four very important questions: What’s your coolest story about being a polyglot? Paul Peterson, PhD., Deputy Chair of the…

– By Barbara L. Quaale “The fact is, creativity itself is a messy business.” Have you ever been enchanted by the idea of a story, a really long story, and decided that you would like to write one yourself? Did you look at your stockpile of notions and say, “But how? Where do I start?…

I asked some language professors and preceptors, “How did you first fall in love with language learning?”  And not one of them objected to the phrasing “fall in love.”  Each of our language faculty have a full-on neural-net entanglement with languages that are beautiful relationships indeed. Dr. Paul Peterson reports that he first fell in…

Greetings, all!  Signum Press is pleased to announce a Call for Papers For a Philology Anthology. The attached PDF has all the details.  For questions about and contributions to the project, please email [email protected].  We hope to collect the contributions over July, August, and September. Thanks!

Huzzah! After many and complex logistics have been negotiated, sorted, and pounded into shape, the Mythmoot XI registration is open! What is Mythmoot? It is Signum University’s Annual Speculative Literature Conference, bringing together all of our community from every niche of the University. Fans of the Mythgard Institute, Students from the Graduate School of Arts,…

By Bronwyn Rivera The season of reading is in full bloom here at Signum University, and we are thrilled to present you with the second installation of the Shelves of Signum series. From hopepunk and environmental science to quests for freedom and unconventional fairytales, the following book recommendations are offered by our staff members. Some…