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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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Introduction
Cosmic History
The History of Earth and Life
Human History
Wrap up
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- 5 stars72.84%
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TOP REVIEWS FROM BIG HISTORY - FROM THE BIG BANG UNTIL TODAY
Everyone should do this course! The ongoing assignment is challenging but well worth the effort - it will open your eyes to connections that you may never have thought about.
Very good course. Helps learn a lot of new and useful things.
This course was much more than I expected and I hope to think about Big History concepts for many years to come. Thanks!
Excellent course. Great perspective and very factual, logical and illuminating. The exercises were more on applicability rather than memorization which is the better way.
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