Welcome to this Big History course! In this course, renowned scientists and scholars from the University of Amsterdam and beyond will take you on a journey from the Big Bang until today while addressing key questions in their fields. After completing this journey you will have developed a better understanding of how you and everything around you became the way they are today. You will also have gained an understanding of the underlying mechanisms that have helped shape the history of everything and how they wil help shape the future. Last but not least, you will have developed the skill to use this knowledge to put smaller subjects into a bigger perspective with the aid of the little big history approach, which can help you develop some new ideas on these smaller subjects.
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Big History - From the Big Bang until Today
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
24 minutes to complete
Introduction
24 minutes to complete
4 videos (Total 24 min)
3 hours to complete
Cosmic History
3 hours to complete
9 videos (Total 80 min), 2 readings, 2 quizzes
3 hours to complete
The History of Earth and Life
3 hours to complete
10 videos (Total 90 min), 2 readings, 2 quizzes
4 hours to complete
Human History
4 hours to complete
15 videos (Total 139 min), 1 reading, 2 quizzes
1 hour to complete
Wrap up
1 hour to complete
2 videos (Total 14 min)
Reviews
- 5 stars72.84%
- 4 stars18.53%
- 3 stars5.60%
- 1 star3.01%
TOP REVIEWS FROM BIG HISTORY - FROM THE BIG BANG UNTIL TODAY
by GBJun 29, 2020
This course was much more than I expected and I hope to think about Big History concepts for many years to come. Thanks!
by MAApr 22, 2020
I understood that only by knowing the past can we face the challenges of the future
by SCDec 4, 2017
Interesting course, learnt how to create little big-histories
by NPJul 2, 2020
I enjoyed the course alot. The professors explained the lectures very well. Learned alot of things. Thanks Coursera and University of Amsterdam.
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