BIOG 4990

Independent Undergraduate Research in Biology

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2018-2019 Catalog.

For students with previous undergraduate experience conducting biological research at Cornell. Students enrolled for this credit should be doing independent work on their own project. Applications available online at https://biology.cornell.edu/research/research-credit-biog-29904990/. Research supervisors must approve by the Add Deadline, two weeks after the start of classes.  Each student must submit a project description as part of the application. Any Cornell faculty member whose research field is biological in nature may serve as supervisor for this course. Non-Cornell supervisors are not acceptable.

Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: one semester BIOG 2990 or equivalent or permission of instructor and Office of Undergraduate Biology.

Course Attribute (CU-UGR)

When Offered Fall, Spring, Summer.

Comments Arts students may not register for more than 6 credits per semester with one supervisor or 8 credits per semester with more than one supervisor. Students in CALS may use up to 15 credits of independent study (BIOG 4990, BIOG 4980) toward graduation. 

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