Signum University

The mission of the SPACE program is to provide numerous and varied opportunities for personal enrichment through learning. SPACE modules are designed to be academically serious but fun, focused purely on the love of learning and the joy of studying the material. SPACE provides fully online access to a serious but low-impact arena for learning, whether you are interested in building a systematic course of study or just pursuing eclectic interests.

Signum University believes in connecting learners with teachers, and with each other! SPACE modules, like all Signum classes, are based on real-time, online small-group discussion sessions. Our modules each last for one month and typically meet twice a week for an hour-long interaction under the direction of the module’s preceptor. Each module provides eight hours of class time.

If you have any questions about the SPACE program, please reach out to [email protected]

Learn more here or consult our Frequently Asked Questions document.

Embark today on your next learning adventure in SPACE!

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Blackberry is our enrollment and tracking system for SPACE. All token purchases, course registration, and candidate voting now occurs through Blackberry, so please remember to sign up.

In Blackberry, you can:

• Purchase Tokens
• Check how many tokens you have
• Enroll in Confirmed Modules using your Tokens
• Vote for Candidate modules
• Add courses from the Module Directory to your Wishlist to let us know which courses you’re hoping to take in the future
• View the modules for May, June, and July
• See your past enrollment history
• Indicate your availability to help with our scheduling

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Step 1: Purchase Your Tokens

SPACE Tokens are each redeemable for participation in one SPACE module. Simply open the Blackberry registration system to purchase. SPACE Tokens never expire; you can use them whenever you like, and you can even give them away to friends!

If you would like to make a gift of one or more SPACE Tokens, first make your token purchase through Blackberry and then complete our Gift Form to let us know to whom you would like to gift the tokens.

Step 2: Choose Your Modules

• Enroll in Confirmed Modules: definitely running next month, and you can choose a Confirmed module right up until classes start.
• or Vote for a Candidate: offered for the month after that, will run if at least four students support it. The decision will be shared on about the 7th of the month before it runs.
• or Hang on to your Tokens and check out the Directory. The Communications Center will keep you updated!

Confirmed Modules for June 2023

Note: All listed times are in Eastern Daylight Saving Time.

June Confirmed List:
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CREATIVE WRITING SECTOR:

• Creative Writing: Weekend Intensive with Sparrow F. Alden
• Writers’ Workshop: The Different Body Problem with Christopher Bartlett

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FANTASY STUDIES SECTOR:

• Book Club: J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring: Book II with Elise Trudel Cedeño
• History of Middle-earth: The Return of the Shadow Webinar with James Tauber & John Garth; discussion groups with Sara Brown and Patrick Lyon.
• The Realm of Arnor with Knewbetta

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LANGUAGE SECTOR:

• Advanced Language Studies
  • Advanced Old English: Beowulf II with Larry Swain
  • Readings in Middle High German: Das Eckenlied with Isaac Schendel
• Cohorts for Beginning Language Learning:
  • Beginning Greek 9 with Larry Swain
  • Egyptian Hieroglyphs 3 with Shawn Gaffney
  • Japanese for Beginners 6 With Pilar Barrera
  • Latin Readings for Advanced Beginners 1 with Faith Acker
  • Old English 2 with Isaac Schendel
  • Old English 6 with Larry Swain

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GENERAL HUMANITIES SECTOR:

• Exploring Natsume’s Book of Friends with Anni Foasberg
• Introduction to Binding Books by Hand with Praise Moyer
• Introduction to Mahayana Buddhism with Robert Steed
• Life in the Middle Ages: Peasants with Larry Swain
• Such an Odyssey 2 with Faith Acker
• The Death of King Arthur: Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur with Liam Daley

Weekly Schedule at a glance for those confirmed May in yellow and on the second page, candidate June modules will be added shortly.

Step 3: Wait for Confirmation

• If you chose a Confirmed module, the Communication Center will affirm your registration and put you in touch with your preceptor
• If you chose a Candidate module, you will hear by about the seventh of the month before it runs whether your chosen module received enough registrations and has become Confirmed.  If it did not, you can choose one that did become Confirmed or hang on to your Token.

Step 4: Enjoy Your Class!

While you’re waiting for Step 4, we offer enhanced daydreaming as you imagine what you’ll explore next in SPACE!