À propos de ce cours : The first course of the specialization ANALYZING COMPLEXITY will teach you what unifying patterns lie at the core of all complex problems. It advances your knowledge of your own field by teaching you to look at it in new ways. ANALYZING COMPLEXITY is constructed in the following way: Week I. "What is Complexity?" - What is at the core of all complex problems Week II. "Complex Physical Systems" - What complex problems all have in common in the inanimate world Week III. "Complex Adaptive Systems" - What complex problems all have in common in nature Week IV. "Complex Cultural Systems" - What complex problems all have in common in human society Week V. "Complexity, Fragility, and Breakdown" - Why complex problems arise Week VI. "Complexity in the Anthropocene" - What complex problems face us today

Les destinataires de ce cours : This course is for everyone: from any level of expertise, any field, any industry, any discipline. And for good reason. It teaches skills that enhance your work and endeavours, regardless of who you are. If you want to perform better in your career, to innovate in your field, and to improve your future prospects - take this course!

Créé par : Université Macquarie

Enseigné par : David Baker, Associate Lecturer
Big History Institute
Enseigné par : David Christian, Professor
Big History Institute
Enseigné par : Shawn Ross, Associate Professor
Big History Institute

Informations de base	Cours 1 de 4 dans Solving Complex Problems Specialization
Niveau	Beginner
Langue	English
Comment réussir	Réussissez tous les devoirs notés pour terminer le cours.
Notes des utilisateurs	4.8 étoiles Note moyenne des utilisateurs 4.8Voir ce que disent les étudiants

Programme de cours

SEMAINE 1

What is complexity?

Welcome to the first course of our specialisation on solving complex problems! In this module, we will be looking at complexity in the broadest sense and how it relates to us. From there we will zoom in to different aspects of this universal and all-encompassing concept.

5 vidéos, 8 lectures

Reading: Specialisation Assessment Overview
Reading: A Preview of the Briefing Paper Assignment
Reading: Assessment Overview for Course 1: Analysing Complexity
Vidéo: Defining Complexity as a Concept
Reading: Resources
Reading: Glossary
Vidéo: Complexity and Energy Flows
Reading: Resources
Reading: Glossary
Vidéo: Complex Systems
Reading: Glossary
Vidéo: Assessments - Specialisation Overview

Noté: Multiple Choice - Mod 1

Noté: Short writing for Module 1: What is complexity?

SEMAINE 2

Complex Physical Systems

In this module, we'll look at how complexity operates in the inanimate universe, the corresponding links between physics, chemistry, and geology and how they reflect the ground rules of all forms of complexity.

5 vidéos, 9 lectures

Reading: Resources
Reading: Glossary
Vidéo: Cosmic Complexity
Reading: Resources
Reading: Glossary
Vidéo: Chemical Complexity
Reading: Resources
Reading: Glossary
Vidéo: Planetary Complexity
Reading: Resources
Reading: Glossary
Vidéo: Complex Physical Systems
Reading: Glossary

Noté: Multiple Choice - Mod 2

Noté: Short writing for Module 2: Complex physical systems

SEMAINE 3

Complex Adaptive Systems

In this module, we'll explore the ratcheting up of complexity inside adaptive systems, and the impact adaptation has on the rules of the game for constantly evolving complex systems.

6 vidéos, 11 lectures

Reading: Resources
Reading: Glossary
Vidéo: Dissipative Structures
Reading: Resources
Reading: Glossary
Vidéo: Cellular Complexity
Reading: Resources
Reading: Glossary
Vidéo: The Complexity of Brains
Reading: Resources
Reading: Glossary
Vidéo: Complex Ecosystems
Reading: Resources
Reading: Glossary
Vidéo: Adaptive Systems and Ecosystems
Reading: Glossary

Noté: Multiple Choice - Mod 3

Noté: Short writing for Module 3: Complex adaptive systems

SEMAINE 4

Complex Cultural Systems

In this module, we'll look at an even more powerful adaptive system - culture. We'll survey what is at the root of this new form of complexity and how this impacts our thinking about how human society, the most complex system of which we are aware, functions and evolves.

6 vidéos, 11 lectures

Reading: Resources
Reading: Glossary
Vidéo: The Evolution of Language
Reading: Resources
Reading: Glossary
Vidéo: Social Complexity
Reading: Resources
Reading: Glossary
Vidéo: Linguistic Complexity
Reading: Resources
Reading: Glossary
Vidéo: Complexity Wealth and Consumption
Reading: Resources
Reading: Glossary
Vidéo: Complex Cultural Systems
Reading: Glossary

Noté: Multiple Choice - Mod 4

Noté: Short writing for Module 4: Social complexity

SEMAINE 5

Complexity, Fragility, and Breakdown

In this module, we'll look at the decline of complexity. So far we've focused on how complex systems sustain or increase themselves. In order to truly understand every angle of all complex systems - physical, biological, and cultural - we need to understand how and when they collapse, and what all those breakdowns have in common.

7 vidéos, 13 lectures

Reading: Resources
Reading: Glossary
Vidéo: The Breakdown of Stars and the Universe
Reading: Resources
Reading: Glossary
Vidéo: The Breakdown of Organic Chemicals
Reading: Resources
Reading: Glossary
Vidéo: The Breakdown of Species
Reading: Resources
Reading: Glossary
Vidéo: The Breakdown of Societies
Reading: Resources
Reading: Glossary
Vidéo: The Breakdown of Economies
Reading: Resources
Reading: Glossary
Vidéo: Fragility and Collapse
Reading: Glossary

Noté: Multiple Choice - Mod 5

Noté: Short writing for Module 5: Limits to complexity

SEMAINE 6

Complexity in the Anthropocene

Now that we've explored the different kinds of complex systems and have some idea of the risks and dangers involved, this module will look at how these concerns impact us in the present Anthropocene epoch, where humanity faces many threats of decline and collapse amid the most complex system that we know of in the visible universe.

6 vidéos, 9 lectures

Reading: Resources
Reading: Glossary
Vidéo: Measuring Sustainability in the Anthropocene
Reading: Resources
Reading: Glossary
Vidéo: Global Politics in the Anthropocene
Reading: Resources
Reading: Glossary
Vidéo: Population Health in the Anthropocene
Reading: Resources
Reading: Glossary
Vidéo: Increasing Complexity and the Anthropocene
Reading: Glossary
Vidéo: The Final Assignment

Noté: Multiple Choice - Mod 6

Noté: Short writing for Module 6: Complexity in the Anthropocene

Noté: Final assignment for Course 1: Analysing Complexity

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Notation et examens

Note moyenne 4.8 sur 5 sur 33 notes

Even though I have studied complexity, and had journal articles published on the subject, this course is admirably clear and promises to be the first part of a really practical insight into solving a particular problem - or at least, suggesting innovative approaches to it.

I loved this course. Very interesting from an holistic point of view. We get to learn and to get a big picture of the World's history since the very first beginnings. Congratulations to the Big History Institute and to Macquarie University! It's well worth it.