This week’s Weekend Assignment revolves around the theme of language. What is considered a language? How many languages are there in the world? What language has the largest alphabet? These are a few questions you could dive into. Before you briefly become a linguist this weekend let’s explore the previous assignment on community. com·mu·ni·ty /kəˈmyo͞onədē/ […]
Student Savings Tops $500,000 with Saylor courses at University of Memphis. Like most students, Melanie Williams started down her path to a degree at the University of Memphis full of excitement and possibility. She enjoyed the academic life at Memphis and progressed into her final year. Then trouble arose. Hit with an unexpected financial crisis, […]
The Weekend Assignment is to learn something new about footnotes. Do you read the footnotes when you are prompted or do you wait until the end of the page to see what they say? Or do you ignore1 the footnotes all together? But before you explore the footnotes let’s see what was learned about last […]
This Weekend Assignment revolves around the theme of Cities. Take a stroll through your city/town and learn something new. Before you go on your weekend hike let’s take out the map and explore the previous Weekend Assignment. Maps have long been created and used to navigate the world around us, but the earliest known map […]
This week’s Weekend Assignment is to learn something new about Maps. When was the first map created, what were maps used for, and what do modern day maps look like? These are a few avenues that you could explore. But before you start your weekend going on a map quest let’s explore the last Weekend […]