About this Course
We at the moment face unprecedented challenges on a worldwide scale. These issues don’t neatly fall into disciplines. They’re sophisticated, complicated, and related. Be part of us on this epic journey of 13.8 billion years beginning on the Large Bang and travelling by way of time all the way in which to the longer term. Uncover the connections in our world, the facility of collective studying, how our universe and our world has advanced from unimaginable simplicity to ever-increasing complexity. Expertise our trendy scientific origin story by way of Large Historical past and uncover the vital hyperlinks between previous, present, and future occasions. One can find two various kinds of lectures. ‘Zooming In’ lectures from a number of specialists allow you to know key ideas by way of the lens of various disciplines, while David Christian’s ‘Large Historical past Framework’ lectures present the connective overview for a journey by way of eight thresholds of Large Historical past.
Syllabus – What you’ll be taught from this course
4 hours to finish
Large Historical past, Essential Pondering, & Transdisciplinarity
Welcome to Large Historical past! That is the place we use the facility of a transdisciplinary perspective to discover broad tendencies within the grand narrative of 13.8 billion years. On this module you’ll learn the way Large Historical past works, discover critical-thinking, how we all know what we all know, and be taught concerning the first “3 Thresholds of Growing Complexity”, milestones round which Large Historical past is organized, beginning firstly of the Universe, house, time, and all the pieces in existence.
6 hours to finish
The Universe, Stars, and Planets
Our journey throughout house and time has begun. On this module, in a timeline that covers billions of years, we’ll discover the origins of the universe, new stars & parts, and the photo voltaic system. You’ll have the chance to look at cosmology, astronomy, physics, chemistry, and geology.
6 hours to finish
The Evolutionary Epic
Journey by way of the evolutionary epic from the origin of life c.3.8 billion years in the past, the evolution of complicated varieties after c.550 million years in the past, to the evolution of some very odd primates – people. Zoom in and discover evolutionary biology, geology, palaeontology, and anthropology.
5 hours to finish
Human Historical past
After billions of years of cosmic evolution, our personal relatively peculiar species has emerged to domesticate even better heights of accelerating complexity. On this module, we’ll discover the lengthy pattern of human growth from the origin of our species c.200,000 years in the past to the eve of the Industrial Revolution. You’ll discover archaeology, paleography, and historical, medieval, and early trendy historical past.
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