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Big History - From the Big Bang until Today

Offered By: University of Amsterdam via Coursera

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Course Description

Overview

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.

Syllabus

  • Introduction
  • Cosmic History
  • The History of Earth and Life
  • Human History
  • Wrap up

Taught by

Esther Quaedackers

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