BIOMI 1400

Antibiotics: Probing the Biology of Life and Death

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

Though antibiotic resistance puts millions of lives at peril from infectious diseases each year, antibiotics and other antimicrobials have played a critical role in helping scientists understand biological systems better. This class examines the biology of microbial life through the lens of antibiotics and other antimicrobials. This course is suitable for non-life sciences majors.

Enrollment Priority Primarily for: non-life-science majors.

Distribution Requirements (BIO-AG, BSC-AG, OPHLS-AG)

Exploratory Studies (CU-SBY)

Last 4 Terms Offered 2025SU, 2025SP, 2024SU, 2024SP

Outcomes

• Explain, evaluate, and effectively interpret factual claims, theories, and assumptions in the sciences.
• Find, access, critically evaluate, and ethically use information.
• Integrate quantitative and qualitative information to reach defensible and creative conclusions.
• Communicate effectively through writing, speech, and visual information.
• Demonstrate the capability to work both independently and in cooperation with others.
• Apply concepts of sustainability to the analysis of one of more major challenges facing humans and the Earth's resources.

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