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Mining through the Margins: Introducing Digital Text for Summer 2022
By Bronwyn Rivera. Elves never grin. Not in Tolkien’s universe, anyway. Grinning is reserved for humans, hobbits, and orcs. The elves prefer to smile. Herman Melville prefaces his magnum opus, Moby Dick, with an etymological breakdown of the word “whale” in thirteen different languages. If you want to figure out how many times “tomorrow”…
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A Community of Learners
by Alexandria Miracola Have you been searching for an online university that provides a wide variety of opportunities to connect with fellow students? If so, we here at Signum University are pleased to report that your search has come to an end. Whether students hope to find community online or at in-person events (or a…
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Learn What You Love!
We’re not here for chocolates, cards, and romance. What about the Big Three: Philosophy, the love of wisdom, Philology, the love of words, and Philomathy, the love of learning? A family takes Latin SPACE courses together. A Master’s program student invited his mum to join him in a Germanic Philology course — and now she’s…
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Innovative Library for the New Millennium
by Alexandria Miracola. Book lovers the world over know the particular sense of wonder that can only captivate a person as they walk through the doors of a library. Whole worlds of knowledge await them, and they are the adventurer tasked with uncovering these hidden treasures. While one could understandably assume removing the physical…
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Of Kaleidoscopes and Kings: The Return of King Arthur for Spring 2022
By Bronwyn Rivera How do you define a hero? What does it mean to identify someone as strong or chivalrous in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries? How are authors addressing issues relevant to history, culture, and their individual interests? (And while we’re at it, how do kaleidoscopes have anything in common with kings?) These…