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I will begin with a brief introduction to the theory of partially ordered sets (posets). Then I will show how to construct the order complex of a poset and discuss how the topology of this geometric object gives combinatorial information about the poset. This talk should be accessible to all graduate students. As such, I will include a number of examples of posets which arise naturally in various branches of mathematics.