Journey Conversations: Weaving Knowledge and Action

Journey Conversations: Weaving Knowledge and Action

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  • 6 Sequences
  • Introductive Level
  • Subtitles in Chinese

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Syllabus

  • Week 1 - Welcome to Journey Conversations: Weaving Knowledge and Action!
    Learn what this course is about, who's teaching it, and other ways you can explore this topic. Meet and greet your peers as well!
  • Week 1 - Introduction – Journey of the Universe Conversations
    The universe’s evolutionary development forces it to leave eras and to start new eras, which is taking place in our own moment in time. We’re in one such moment. We are being pushed out of the industrial era into a new era of Earth’s history”
  • Week 2 - Beginning of the Universe: Galaxies, Stars, and the Solar System
    A star is required for the production of carbon and oxygen and a galaxy is required for the production of stars. So the Milky Way galaxy as a whole is required for our hands. Understanding our cosmological nature is the first step into a new era.
  • Week 3 - Emergence of Life, Learning, and Humans
    We discuss the oxygen crisis two billion years ago and the endosymbiosis that dealt with it creatively. We too will deal with the enveloping crises of our time, first of all by tending to them, by taking responsibility for them.
  • Week 4 - Becoming a Planetary Presence: Communities, Cities, and Economics
    The story of the isolated neutron’s quick decay and the neutron+proton’s long term stability as an illustration of the synergistic effects that will take place in Eco-cities. In ways we can only guess at, these new mutually enhancing relationships will lead to...
  • Week 5 - Embodied Knowing: Food, Energy, and Health
    Understand the universe as self-organizing. Consider galaxies. It is the spiral structure of a galaxy that enables it to construct stars. Elliptical galaxies have lost this structure and have lost the capacity to construct stars. With planets it’s similar. The...
  • Week 6 - Emerging Earth Community: Teaching and the Creative Arts
    Humans need to live for something greater than themselves if they are ever to achieve happiness and fulfillment. One way to achieve this goal is to teach children the full nature of our universe. Not just our technologies and our sciences and our arts and ente...

Prerequisite

None.

Instructors

Mary Evelyn Tucker
Senior Lecturer and Senior Research Scholar
Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

John Grim
Senior Lecturer and Senior Research Scholar
Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

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For more than 300 years, Yale University has inspired the minds that inspire the world. Based in New Haven, Connecticut, Yale brings people and ideas together for positive impact around the globe. A research university that focuses on students and encourages learning as an essential way of life, Yale is a place for connection, creativity, and innovation among cultures and across disciplines.

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Coursera is a digital company offering massive open online course founded by computer teachers Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller Stanford University, located in Mountain View, California. 

Coursera works with top universities and organizations to make some of their courses available online, and offers courses in many subjects, including: physics, engineering, humanities, medicine, biology, social sciences, mathematics, business, computer science, digital marketing, data science, and other subjects.

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