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.
Big History - From the Big Bang until Today
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RW
Reviewed on May 30, 2022
Professionally composed and presented. Informational, educatinal, and well worth teh time. If you have an interst in the creatign and evolution of Earth and, well, us, take this course.
JO
Reviewed on Jun 24, 2020
An amazing course to understand better our history and how the universe evolution!
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Reviewed on Jul 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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