HCS 3170 Big History & The Future
This advanced Big History course is intended for adult learners, transfer students, and those students interested in continuing their exploration of the Big History metanarrative. We’ll read the history of the universe, our solar system and earth, life itself, and the human species -- and consider how the patterns we see might shape the future. Texts include a Big History account (by an author such as Brown, Christian, Spier, Chaisson, or Berry), a text on the future (such as Gore’s The Future or Kim Stanley Robinson’s sci fi novel 2312), as well as other texts, films, essays, and creative works.