Summer Session 3: BIOL-11010 - Origins of Life on Earth (on-line)

By Nancy Pierce, April 20, 2023

summer course details

(ICC-Natural Science)

  • Have you wondered how life originated on Earth? 
  • What is the Big Bang Theory?
  • How did the different mass extinctions shape Earth as we see it today? 
  • How are dinosaurs and birds related in their evolutionary history?

 This course will answer these and MORE questions!!

Topics include: DINOSAUR origin and diversity, the fossil record, biodiversity, mass extinctions, human evolution, the evolution of viruses and bacteria

Instructor: Nandadevi Cortes mcortes@ithaca.edu

SUMMER Session 3: July 10 - Aug 11

Course Attributes: GE 2a: Science, Liberal Arts (LA)

(ICC) - Natural Sciences

Theme: (III) Inquiry, Imagine, Innovation

Theme: (TWOS) World of Systems