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  • Mythgard Institute logo. On a field purpure, a circlet of silver surrounding a leafy oak tree with blue mountains and a single bright star in the background.

    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 —…


  • Vibrant colors with a cheerful yellow center surround a humanoid figure who seems to be danging with arms spread wide. The words are "Finding Joy Signum University Annual Fund 2024-2025"

    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…


  • Words: Gift the Joy of Learning; Anytime Audit Gift Certificate $75. Background, a festively wrapped package with pine cones and gold ribbons.

    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…


  • A blue European-looking dragon and a red-orange Chinese looking dragon have twined their tails in flight.

    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…


  • Twelve full moons on a gradient teal sky with handwritten words across the heavens

    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?…