Course Catalog
This is a description of courses offered at Euglena Academy. They have evolved during Euglena's 10-year history. Some have been taught multiple times; others are relatively newer. All have been offered at least once.
They have been grouped into three categories that coincide with our tri-fold focus: Gaia (geophysiology), life (biology) and systems sciences. However, those categories are not mutually exclusive; some may be related to more than one category. For example, Biology 1 addresses concepts from all three categories, but fits most logically into "life".
More importantly, by design, these linked courses contribute an important part of a story of Gaia, the main focus of Euglena Academy, and are necessary to understand climate change, the greatest challenge that our species has faced in its million year history.
Except for the first entry of each category, course numbers do not necessarily reflect the order in which they should or must be taken. However, in general, the highest number courses in each category should not be attempted too early in a student's program of study. Most courses above the first (#1) in each category have prerequisites - other courses that must be completed (for background) before beginning - or co-requisites - courses that can be taken at the same time. Prerequisites or co-requisites are listed at the end of each course description where relevant.
Course Titles
Gaia- Gaia 1 : End of the Long Summer : Why we must remake civilization if our species is to survive
- Gaia 2 : Animate Earth : An introduction to the science of Gaia & its relationship to ancient cultures
- Gaia 3 : With Speed and Violence : The sobering scientific truth about past & current climate change
- Gaia 4 : Revenge of Gaia : An advanced course about Gaia theory & its relation to climate change
- Gaia 5 : Planetary Medicine : Advanced course about geophysiology with relevance to healing Gaia
- Gaia 6 : Early Life : The origins & evolution of life for 4 billion years, focusing on the 1st 3 billion
- Gaia 7 : Abstract Wild : The nature of wilderness and wildness from a systems sciences perspective
- Life 1 : What is Life? : Answers from biology, systems sciences, & one of Earth's greatest biologists
- Life 2 : The Way of the Cell : A fascinating look into the phenomenon of life within cells
- Life 3 : Symbiogenesis : A new theory of evolution involving natural selection & symbiosis
- Life 4 : What is Sex? How it evolved, in what organisms, when, how, why & how it to symbiosis
- Life 5 : Signs of Life : Principles from Systems 1 applied to life systems from cells to ecosystems
- Life 6 : Immunology : A radical new model of your immune system & its relationship to cognition
- Systems 1 : How Nature Works : The core principles of systems sciences
- Systems 2 : New Kind of Science 1 : A new kind of math & science based in computational processes
- Systems 3 : New Kind of Science 2 : Cognition, perception,
- Systems 4 : Into the Cool: Understanding energy, energy gradients, energy flows & life
- Systems 5 : Emergence : The evolution of everything from cosmos & planets to cells & humans
- Gaia : Deep Survival : Lessons for species survival from survivors of life threatening situations
- Life : Human Biology: Anatomy, physiology & health from a systems sciences perspective
- Life : Artificial Life : How computer models are changing our understanding of what life is
- Systems : Power Laws & Fractals : The science of self-organized criticality on the edge of chaos
- Systems : Self Made Tapestry : How self-organization applies to physics, chemistry & biology