关于此课程： 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.
此课程适用人群： This course is aimed at anyone who would like to learn more about how the universe, Earth, life and human societies emerged and developed, and how this knowledge can help us gain a better understanding of the present and the future.
教学方： Esther Quaedackers, Lecturer in Big History
Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies - Faculty of Science
| 级别 | 初级 |
| 承诺学习时间 | 4 weeks of study, 3-5 hours/week |
| 语言 | English, 字幕： Spanish |
| 如何通过 | 通过所有计分作业以完成课程。 |
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- 视频: How big is big history?
- 视频: What are little big histories?
- 视频: Can big history reunify all our knowledge?
- Reading: A tour of cosmic history
- 视频: What are the elementary particles our universe is made of?
- 视频: What are the fundamental forces that determine how our universe behaves?
- 视频: Is our Standard Model of elementary particles and fundamental forces complete?
- 视频: Why are massive stars so important to us?
- 视频: How do stars die?
- 视频: What does our cosmic neighbourhood look like?
- 视频: Does our Solar System have a history?
- 视频: What is underlying all of big history?
- Reading: Little Big History Example Connections
- Peer Review: Practice little big history assignment 1
- Reading: A tour of the history of Earth and life
- 视频: How did evolution lead to the incredible diversity of life we see around us?
- 视频: Why do species look the way they do and how are they all related?
- 视频: How did life develop on the early Earth?
- 视频: What happened on our planet during mass extinctions?
- 视频: Why has our Earth cooled over the past millions of years?
- 视频: How can understanding the evolution of the brain help us understand human history?
- 视频: How did brain evolution lead to the development of our consciousness?
- 视频: Can we understand the evolution of our species without the aid of sexual selection?
- 视频: Can we develop a theory of the biosphere?
- Reading: Little Big History Example Connections
- Peer Review: Practice little big history assignment 2
- Reading: A tour of human history
- 视频: Can big history tell us something new about the emergence of agriculture?
- 视频: What is the use of religion in the history of our species?
- 视频: Why did states, writing and state religion emerge together?
- 视频: How are civilizations influenced by climate change?
- 视频: When did globalization begin and what did it mean to different people across the globe?
- 视频: How was life in Europe affected by early globalization?
- 视频: What made industrial production possible?
- 视频: What are the main consequences of the Industrial Revolution?
- 视频: What have been the consequences of the Industrial Revolution for our environment?
- 视频: How is our international financial system developing?
- 视频: How are financial institutions affecting society?
- 视频: How is artificial intelligence developing?
- 视频: How will artificial intelligence influence your future?
- 视频: Can we construct a theory of human history?
- Peer Review: Practice little big history assignment 3
- 视频: What can big history tell us about the short term future?
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Interesting course. Great lectures. I enjoyed it but felt a bit lonely. No teacher and no Mentor helped in the Forums. Why? Nobody answered our questions. The final assignment is a bit confusing and messy. And the 3rd Quiz is almost impossible (it took me a lot of attempts to pass it). Other learners said the same. Thanks.
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.
Phenomenal.
A truly fascinating course. I have only a limited knowledge of science, but I have a growing fascination with astronomy and origins of the universe, life and the possibility of other life one day being discovered beyond Earth.
This course has allowed my to explore this fascination, even if it has stretched my understanding of scientific formulas and calculations. And I maybe still just as clueless about particle physics and Higgs bosom.