Category: Announcement
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Answering Lucy’s Mythmoot Questions
By Michael Raymond Astle Once upon a time, not so long ago, Sam was walking the hallowed halls of Signum University when he spied young Lucy. Knowing it was her first year, he thought he’d go chat with her. “Hey Lucy,” said Sam. “Hi,” Lucy replied. “Are you going to Mythmoot this year?” he asked.…
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Year of the Novel
Is this the year for your novel? In the Creative Writing sector of SPACE, we conceive of our written work developmentally: Welcome to Launching Your Seedling Story, a series of three modules designed to support writers in the seedling stage of creating a novel. In June, it’s Character and Voice with Christopher Bartlett — click…
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The Storyweb Podcast
In this inaugural episode of the Storyweb series, Christopher Bartlett interviews Sparrow Alden about her history and process as a writer. They discuss A Flash of Wings, Sparrow’s anthology of flash fiction that appears in the Signum University Collaboratory. Link to Episode 1
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Spring SPACE Showcase!
We are excited to share a Spring SPACE Showcase on Saturday, May 3rd in celebration of the continuing growth of the SPACE program. SPACE is Signum’s for-fun, no-credit, one month continuing ed classes for adults who want to learn what they love for the pure joy of it. The Spring Showcase will feature free 30-minute…
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Our Favorite Free Things at Signum
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 —…
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Find Joy: Learn The Things That You Love
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…
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Anytime Audit Gift Certificate Holiday Promotion!
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…
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Four Important Questions
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…
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Fellowship of the Pen
– 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?…
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What do you get when you fall in love?
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…