We currently face unprecedented challenges on a global scale. These problems do not neatly fall into disciplines. They are complicated, complex, and connected. Join us on this epic journey of 13.8 billion years starting at the Big Bang and travelling through time all the way to the future. Discover the connections in our world, the power of collective learning, how our universe and our world has evolved from incredible simplicity to ever-increasing complexity. Experience our modern scientific origin story through Big History and discover the important links between past, current, and future events. You will find two different types of lectures. ‘Zooming In’ lectures from multiple specialists enable you to understand key concepts through the lens of different disciplines, whilst David Christian's ‘Big History Framework’ lectures provide the connective overview for a journey through eight thresholds of Big History.
Big History: Connecting Knowledge
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Big History, Critical Thinking, & Transdisciplinarity
Welcome to Big History! This is where we use the power of a transdisciplinary perspective to explore broad trends in the grand narrative of 13.8 billion years. In this module you'll learn how Big History works, explore critical-thinking, how we know what we know, and learn about the first "3 Thresholds of Increasing Complexity", milestones around which Big History is organized, starting at the beginning of the Universe, space, time, and everything in existence.
5 vidéos (Total 45 min), 15 lectures, 2 quiz
5 vidéos
ZOOMING IN: Richard Menary - What is the relationship between historical & scientific explanation?5 min
ZOOMING IN: Jenny Duke-Yonge - How do we decide what to believe?9 min
BIG HISTORY FRAMEWORK: David Christian - How did our Universe get more complex?14 min
BIG HISTORY FRAMEWORK: David Baker - Big History, Critical Thinking, & Transdisciplinarity6 min
15 lectures
Resources10 min
Glossary10 min
How This Course Works10 min
The Big History Forums10 min
International Undergraduate Scholarship Opportunity10 min
The Big History Bonus Points Scheme10 min
Resources10 min
Timeline10 min
Glossary10 min
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Timeline10 min
Glossary10 min
LOOKING BACK, LOOKING FORWARD: David Baker - Starting Out10 min
2 exercices pour s'entraîner
Big History, Critical Thinking, Transdisciplinarity14 min
Claim Testers2 min
Semaine
25 heures pour terminer
The Universe, Stars, and Planets
Our journey across space and time has begun. In this module, in a timeline that covers billions of years, we'll explore the origins of the universe, new stars & elements, and the solar system. You'll have the opportunity to examine cosmology, astronomy, physics, chemistry, and geology.
9 vidéos (Total 82 min), 22 lectures, 2 quiz
9 vidéos
ZOOMING IN: Quentin Parker - What is the observable evidence for the Big Bang?9 min
ZOOMING IN: Quentin Parker - How do we know how stars form?10 min
ZOOMING IN: Ian Jamie - Where did the elements come from?6 min
ZOOMING IN: Ian Jamie - What is the periodic table?9 min
BIG HISTORY FRAMEWORK: David Christian - Why is Threshold 4 significant?8 min
ZOOMING IN: Craig O'Neill - How did the solar system form?17 min
ZOOMING IN: Dick Flood - What is our Earth's history and how do we know it?13 min
BIG HISTORY FRAMEWORK: David Baker - The Universe, Stars, & Planets4 min
22 lectures
Resources10 min
Timeline10 min
Glossary10 min
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Glossary10 min
LOOKING BACK, LOOKING FORWARD: David Baker - From the Inanimate Universe to Life10 min
2 exercices pour s'entraîner
The Universe, Stars, and Planets24 min
Claim Testers2 min
Semaine
35 heures pour terminer
The Evolutionary Epic
Travel through the evolutionary epic from the origin of life c.3.8 billion years ago, the evolution of complex forms after c.550 million years ago, to the evolution of some very odd primates - humans. Zoom in and explore evolutionary biology, geology, palaeontology, and anthropology.
8 vidéos (Total 72 min), 21 lectures, 2 quiz
8 vidéos
ZOOMING IN: Michael Gillings - Where did life come from?7 min
ZOOMING IN: Simon George - How do we get dates for Earth's history?13 min
ZOOMING IN: Michael Gillings - How does evolution work?9 min
ZOOMING IN: Glenn Brock - How do palaeontologists study the history of life?10 min
BIG HISTORY FRAMEWORK: David Christian - Why is Threshold 6 important?8 min
ZOOMING IN: Greg Downey - Why did our ancestors evolve such unusual abilities?11 min
BIG HISTORY FRAMEWORK: David Baker - The Evolutionary Epic2 min
21 lectures
Resources10 min
Timeline10 min
Glossary10 min
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Glossary10 min
LOOKING BACK, LOOKING FORWARD: David Baker - The "Two Cultures" Meet10 min
2 exercices pour s'entraîner
The Evolutionary Epic30 min
Claim Testers2 min
Semaine
44 heures pour terminer
Human History
After billions of years of cosmic evolution, our own rather peculiar species has emerged to cultivate even greater heights of increasing complexity. In this module, we will explore the long trend of human development from the origin of our species c.200,000 years ago to the eve of the Industrial Revolution. You will explore archaeology, paleography, and ancient, medieval, and early modern history.
7 vidéos (Total 61 min), 15 lectures, 2 quiz
7 vidéos
BIG HISTORY FRAMEWORK: David Christian - Why is Threshold 7 important?11 min
ZOOMING IN: Susanne Binder - Where did writing come from?9 min
CASE STUDY: Susanne Binder - Reading Hieroglyphs3 min
ZOOMING IN: Peter Edwell - What were the Silk Roads?12 min
BIG HISTORY FRAMEWORK: David Christian - What were the main changes in agrarian civilizations?11 min
BIG HISTORY FRAMEWORK: David Baker - Human History3 min
15 lectures
Resources10 min
Timeline10 min
Glossary10 min
Resources10 min
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Resources10 min
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Glossary10 min
Resources10 min
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LOOKING BACK, LOOKING FORWARD: David Baker - Collective Learning's "Snowball Effect"10 min
2 exercices pour s'entraîner
Human History20 min
Claim Testers2 min
Semaine
54 heures pour terminer
Modernity
We have now arrived at one of the most dynamically changing periods ever seen in human history - our own times. This module will explore how the agrarian era that had lasted for 10,000 years transitioned to the modern era with its explosion of production and complexity. We will explore modern history, political science, and economics.
6 vidéos (Total 57 min), 16 lectures, 2 quiz
6 vidéos
ZOOMING IN: Mark Hearn - How did Modernity evolve after the Industrial Revolution?14 min
ZOOMING IN: Stephanie Lawson - How far can globalization go?5 min
ZOOMING IN: Wylie Bradford - Why is the world economy so integrated?10 min
BIG HISTORY FRAMEWORK: David Christian - Why is Threshold 8 important?9 min
BIG HISTORY FRAMEWORK: David Baker - Modernity4 min
16 lectures
Resources10 min
Timeline10 min
Glossary10 min
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LOOKING BACK, LOOKING FORWARD: David Baker - Onward to Threshold 910 min
2 exercices pour s'entraîner
Modernity16 min
Claim Testers2 min
Semaine
64 heures pour terminer
The Future
We've looked far into the deep past, now is the time to take what we've learned and look ahead. In this module we will explore the near and distant future, what challenges we face this century, how we study the future on the scale of billions of years, and where complexity may go from here. The section incorporates climatology, cosmology, physics, and foresight.
4 vidéos (Total 32 min), 9 lectures, 3 quiz
4 vidéos
ZOOMING IN: Lesley Hughes - How is our climate changing and what does this mean for our future?8 min
ZOOMING IN: Quentin Parker - Why is the future of the Universe easier to study than the future of humanity?9 min
BIG HISTORY FRAMEWORK: David Christian - What have we learned from the Big History story?3 min
9 lectures
Resources10 min
Glossary10 min
Resources10 min
Timeline10 min
Glossary10 min
Resources10 min
Timeline10 min
Glossary10 min
Course Contributors10 min
2 exercices pour s'entraîner
The Future12 min
Claim Testers2 min
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Enseignants
David Christian
ProfessorBig History Institute
David Baker
Associate LecturerBig History Institute
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