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College of Optometry

Courses: Physiological Optics (PHOP)

6152: Basic Physiological Optics and Visual Sciences: Visual Processes Laboratory
Cr. 1. (0-3). Prerequisite: concurrent enrollment in either PHOP 6350 or PHOP 6351. Laboratory demonstrations and experiments on sensory and motor aspects of monocular and/or binocular vision.

6157: Research Practicum B
Cr. 1. (0-3). Practical training in vision research methods and procedures. Provides current in-depth training on cutting-edge methods and procedures for biological research in vision. Includes training in biochemical, anatomical, and physiological methods and procedures for vision research.

6160: General Seminar in Physiological Optics and Visual Sciences
Cr. 1. (1-0). Reading recent scientific papers in the broad areas of physiological optics and visual sciences; preparing written reviews and making oral presentations; critiquing of papers, reviews, and presentations.

6167: Research Practicum A
Cr. 1. (0-3). Practical training in vision research methods and procedures. Provides current in-depth training on cutting-edge methods and procedures for psychophysical research in vision. Includes training in stimulus design and control, psychophysical methods and procedures, and psychophysical analysis.

6198:6298:6398: Special Problems
Cr. 1-3 per semester. Independent study in Vision Science.

6257: Research Practicum B
Cr. 2. (0-6). Practical training in vision research methods and procedures. Provides current in-depth training on cutting-edge methods and procedures for biological research in vision. Includes training in biochemical, anatomical, and physiological methods and procedures for vision research.

6267: Research Practicum A
Cr. 2. (06). Practical training in vision research methods and procedures. Provides current in-depth training on cutting-edge methods and procedures for psychophysical research in vision. Includes training in stimulus design and control, psychophysical methods and procedures and psychophysical analysis.

6270: Experimental Methods in Visual Sciences
Cr. 2. (1-2). Basic methods used in vision experiments, including use of automated technology to generate and control visual displays and acquire and process associated data.

6273: Radiometry and Photometry
Cr. 2. (1-2). Radiometric and photometric relationships; effects of radiation on ocular tissues.

6274: Laboratory Optics for Experiments in Vision
Cr. 2. (1-2). Physics of light and related optics, including design and bench setup of optical systems for experiments in vision; current topics in applied optics.

6275: Teaching and Communication in Vision Sciences
Cr. 2. (1-2). Lectures, discussions, and practice in the elements of teaching university-level vision science. Issues and problems in teaching in science; instructional objectives and evaluation of teaching. Principles, elements, and practice in oral communication such as presenting a scientific talk.

6357: Research Practicum B
Cr. 3. (0-9). Practical training in vision research methods and procedures. Provides current in-depth training on cutting-edge methods and procedures for biological research in vision. Includes training in biochemical, anatomical, and physiological methods and procedures for vision research.

6367: Research Practicum A
Cr. 3 (0-9). Practical training in vision research methods and procedures. Provides current in-depth training on cutting-edge methods and procedures for psychophysical research in vision. Includes training in stimulus design and control, pscho-physical methods and procedures and psychophysical analysis.

6371: Experimental Design in Visual Sciences
Cr. 3. (2-2). Consideration of different classical and modern designs for experiments in vision.

6372: Experimental Quantification in Visual Sciences
Cr. 3. (2-2). Quantitative methods used for analyzing data obtained in vision experiments, such as probit analysis and signal detection, analysis of threshold and discrimination data, probability functions involved in vision, and associated statistical analyses.

6650: Vision Science Core
Cr. 6. (6-0). Prerequisite: concurrent enrollment in PHOP 6152. Fundamental information and concepts on the anatomy, biochemistry and physiology of the eye, retina, and vision-related areas of the brain, and fundamental information and concepts on sensory and motor aspects of vision.

6657: Research Practicum B
Cr. 6 (0-18). Practical training in vision research methods and procedures. Provides current in-depth training on cutting-edge methods and procedures for biological research in vision. Includes training in biochemical, anatomical, and physiological methods and procedures for vision research.

6667: Research Practicum A
Cr. 6 (0-18). Practical training in vision research methods and procedures. Provides current in-depth training on cutting-edge methods and procedures for psychophysical research in vision. Includes training in stimulus design and control, psychophysical methods and procedures and psychophysical analysis.

7157: Advanced Research Practicum B
Cr. 1. (0-3). Advanced training in vision research methods and procedures. Provides current in-depth training on cutting-edge methods and procedures for biological research in vision. Includes training in biochemical, anatomical, and physiological methods and procedures for vision research.

7167: Advanced Research Practicum A
Cr. 1. (0-3). Advanced training in vision research methods and procedures. Provides current in-depth training on cutting-edge methods and procedures for psychophysical research in vision. Includes training in stimulus design and control, psychophysical methods and procedures and psychophysical analysis.

7257: Advanced Research Practicum B
Cr. 2. (0-6). Advanced training in vision research methods and procedures. Provides current in-depth training on cutting-edge methods and procedures for biological research in vision. Includes training in biochemical, anatomical, and physiological methods and procedures for vision research.

7267: Advanced Research Practicum A
Cr. 2. (0-6). Advanced training in vision research methods and procedures. Provides current in-depth training on cutting-edge methods and procedures for psychophysical research in vision. Includes training in stimulus design and control, psychophysical methods and procedures and psychophysical analysis.

7350: Intermediate Vision Science A
Cr. 3. (3-0). Intermediate information and concepts relating to sensory-motor processes of vision and visual perception.

7351: Intermediate Vision Science B
Cr. 3. (3-0). Intermediate information and concepts relating to the anatomy, biochemistry, physiology, and pathology of the visual system.

7357: Advanced Research Practicum B
Cr. 3. (0-9). Advanced training in vision research methods and procedures. Provides current in-depth training on cutting-edge methods and procedures for biological research in vision. Includes training in biochemical, anatomical, and physiological methods and procedures for vision research.

7367: Advanced Research Practicum A
Cr. 3. (0-9). Advanced training in vision research methods and procedures. Provides current in-depth training on cutting-edge methods and procedures for psychophysical research in vision. Includes training in stimulus design and control, psychophysical methods and procedures and psychophysical analysis.

7657: Advanced Research Practicum B
Cr. 6. (0-18). Advanced training in vision research methods and procedures. Provides current in-depth training on cutting-edge methods and procedures for biological research in vision. Includes training in biochemical, anatomical, and physiological methods and procedures for vision research.

7667: Advanced Research Practicum A
Cr. 6. (0-18). Advanced training in vision research methods and procedures. Provides current in-depth training on cutting-edge methods and procedures for psychophysical research in vision. Includes training in stimulus design and control, psychophysical methods and procedures and psychophysical analysis.

8276: Advanced Vision Research Instrumentation
Cr. 2. (1-2). Instruction and practical experience with advanced vision research instrumentation tailored to the students' research interests, including use of light and electron microscopes, spectrophotometers, computers and displays, and intracellular and ion-sensitive electrodes.

8277: Advanced Vision Research Methods
Cr. 2. (1-2). Instruction and experience with advanced vision research methods tailored to the students' research interests, including modelling, Fourier techniques, psychophysical procedures, etc.

8365: Advanced Topical Seminar in Physiological Optics and Visual Sciences
Cr. 3. (3-0). Reading scientific papers in a topical area of physiological optics and visual sciences; preparing written reviews and making oral presentations; critiquing papers, reviews, and presentations.

8378: Advanced Vision Research Quantification
Cr. 3. (2-2). Instruction and experience with advanced vision research quantification tailored to the students' research interests, including binocular probability summation, linear and non-linear models, and advanced statistical analyses used in vision research.

8380: Advanced Physiological Optics and Visual Sciences I: Developmental Visual Neurobiology
Cr. 3. (3-0). Normal development of the structure and function of the retino-cortical and associated neural pathways, including abnormal development leading to vision disorders.

8381: Advanced Physiological Optics and Visual Sciences II: Monocular Sensory Processes of Vision
Cr. 3. (3-0). Monocular sensory processes of vision including thresholds, discrimination, adaptation, spatial vision, hyperacuity, temporal vision, and color vision.

8382: Advanced Physiological Optics and Visual Sciences III: Physiology of the Eye
Cr. 3. (3-0). Physiology of the eye and ocular tissues including gaseous and metabolic exchange, tear and intraocular fluid dynamics, and ocular muscle physiology.

8383: Advanced Physiological Optics and Visual Sciences IV: Visual Neurophysiology
Cr. 3. (3-0). Neurophysiology of the retina, lateral geniculate nucleus, superior colliculus, visual cortex, and oculomotor centers. Integration with other sensory and motor systems.

8384: Advanced Physiological Optics and Visual Sciences V: Binocular Sensory Processes of Vision
Cr. 3. (3-0). Binocular mechanisms of vision with emphasis on spatial aspects such as horopters and stereopsis. Binocular interactions in normal and anomalous vision.

8385: Advanced Physiological Optics and Visual Sciences VI: Visuomotor Processes
Cr. 3. (3-0). Monocular and binocular motor mechanisms including pupillomotion, accommodation, vergence, pursuit and saccadic tracking, reflex eye movements, and fixational tremor. Interactions of these mechanisms and abnormalities (e.g., nystagmus and strabismus).