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Big History - From the Big Bang until Today
by Esther Quaedackers- 4.6
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Approx. 12 hours to complete
Cosmic History Why do we think big history started with a Big Bang? A tour of cosmic history Little Big History Example Connections Cosmic history The History of Earth and Life Can big history tell us something new about the emergence of agriculture? What can big history tell us about the short term future?...
Incarceration's Witnesses: American Prison Writing
by Doran Larson- 0.0
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4 Weeks
Study how first-person testimonial by incarcerated people writing about their experience inside—prisoner witness—can help us in understanding the American prison system. This history will help us to understand the mass-scale prison’s rise, its day-to-day practices, and why it fails so badly at the task of rehabilitation. How first-person testimonial by incarcerated people can help us understand the American prison system...
US Voting Access and Fraud
by Susan L. Roberts , Andrew J. O’Geen- 0.0
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2 Weeks
Political scientists, journalists and election officials explain the storied history of US voting rights and explore access and fraud in 2016. As the US general election approaches, there is a firestorm of rhetoric around access and fraud. Brief history of the right to vote in US...
$29
US-China Relations: Past, Present and Future
by Kishore Mahbubani- 0.0
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4 Weeks
A major geopolitical contest has broken out between the US and China. Join us as we seek to understand how this US-China geopolitical contest is, paradoxically, both inevitable and avoidable. The clashing histories of US and China that provide the backdrop to this contest – an American Century of Triumphalism vs a Chinese Century of Humiliation...
$99
The Making of the US President: A Short History in Five Elections
by Frank Cogliano , David Silkenat , Fabian Hilfrich , Robert Mason- 4.5
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Approx. 20 hours to complete
It tells the story of key campaigns in US history, and by doing so it investigates how politics changed over time—and how understanding the past sheds light on the current campaign. Turning points and "realignments" in electoral history Mike Moffo on the making of the US president in 2008 Background reading (optional): The American Yawp on recent US history...
Western and Chinese Art: Masters and Classics
by Ying Xiao , Jing Sun- 0.0
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4 Weeks
From da Vinci to Zhang Xu, Wu Daozi and Warhol, explore immortal works of Western and Chinese art and gain an appreciation of culture, history and civilization. Join us as we survey renowned Chinese and Western artists and deepen our understanding and appreciation of art, history and culture....
$25
Big History: Connecting Knowledge
by David Christian- 4.8
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Approx. 29 hours to complete
BIG HISTORY FRAMEWORK: David Christian - What is Big History? BIG HISTORY FRAMEWORK: David Christian - What were the main changes in agrarian civilizations? BIG HISTORY FRAMEWORK: David Baker - Human History Human History BIG HISTORY FRAMEWORK: David Christian - Why is Threshold 8 important? BIG HISTORY FRAMEWORK: David Baker - Modernity...
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A Global History of Architecture
by Mark Jarzombek- 0.0
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12 Weeks
Learn about humanity’s rich architectural history on this journey around the globe – from 100,000 BCE to ca. Material covered in lectures will be supplemented by readings from the textbook A Global History of Architecture. Join us on a journey around the globe and learn how architecture has developed and interacted with the world’s culture, religion, and history....
$49
The Tabernacle in Word & Image: An Italian Jewish Manuscript Revealed
by Alessandro Guetta- 0.0
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5 Weeks
This mini-course introduces the use of early modern manuscripts for intellectual history—that is, the history of how ideas and the communication of those ideas changes over time. By examining this work, an extended commentary on the structure and implements of the ancient Israelite Tabernacle (mishkan), Professor Guetta explores how the manuscript can help us understand early modern Jewish intellectual life....
$29
The Tabernacle in Word & Image: An Italian Jewish Manuscript Revealed
by Alessandro Guetta- 0.0
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This mini-course introduces the use of early modern manuscripts for intellectual history—that is, the history of how ideas and the communication of those ideas changes over time....
$29
