BIOMI 1400

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BIOMI 1400
Antibiotics: Probing the Biology of Life and Death

Course information provided by the 2024-2025 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.


Permission Note Primarily for: non-life-science majors.

Course Attribute (CU-SBY)

Last 4 terms offered 2025SP, 2024SU, 2024SP, 2023SU

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.

Distribution Category (BIO-AG, OPHLS-AG)

When Offered Spring, Summer.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Six Week Summer. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  1409 BIOMI 1400   LEC 001

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    • MTWRF
    • Jun 23 - Aug 5, 2025

    • Hay, A

  • Instruction Mode: Distance Learning-Synchronous

    This Summer Session class is offered by the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions. For details visit: https://sce.cornell.edu/courses/roster.