This Big History course examines history on the grand scale through the lens of interdisciplinary learning.
Combining all the ‘ologies’ to create a single connected historical narrative throughout all of history.
A discussion-based class for curious students, it tackles the biggest questions: Who are we? What does it mean to be human? How do we know what we know? And just as important, what we don’t know, and why.
By examining the entire past, from the Big Bang to the present, we’ll uncover patterns that shape our world, consider our place in the universe, and develop our own ideas about the future.
Part philosophy, part science, all history, this course invites you to explore the history of everything.
What is Big History?
1.1 - Welcome to Big History
1.2 - Scale
1.3 - Origin Stories
1.4 - Claim Testing
Cosmic History
2.1 - The Big Bang
2.2 - How Has Our Understanding of the Universe Changed?
2.3 - The Star Light Up
2.4 - Creation of Complex Elements
The History of the Earth and Early Life
3.1 - Earth & The Formation of Our Solar System
3.2 - The Young Earth
3.3 - What is Life?
3.4 - The Evolutionary Epic
3.5 - “Life, but not as we know it”
Early Human History
4.1 - The Origins of Consciousness
4.2 - Human Ancestors
4.3 - Collective Learning
4.4 - How Did Early Humans Live?
4.5 - The Agricultural Revolution
4.6 - The First Societies
4.7 - Empires
History of the Modern World
5.1 - The Modern World
5.2 - Four World Zones Connect
5.3 - Industrial Revolution
5.4 - Tech Acceleration
5.5 - Globalization
5.6 - The Anthropocene
Future History
6.1 - Looking Back
6.2 - Looking Forward