Four lecture hours and two laboratory hours per week. This course is concerned with the study of visual stimuli and the response they evoke in the human organism. Included are the principles of photometry and radiometry as well as topics related to the visual response to light stimuli such as intensity discrimination, light and dark adaptation visual acuity, and quantum effects of light perception. Two lecture hours per week. This course provides learning experiences for students in planning personal and professional goals, and in the financial arrangements necessary to reach these goals.
Students learn to set personal goals and use personal finance strategies to manage debt.
Characteristics of professions and their effect on non-optometric career choices, advantages and disadvantages of modes of practice, scope of optometric practice, historical events affecting the profession of optometry, the state of optometry today, and optometric organizations supporting optometry are also presented in the course. Ethical implications of career choices are discussed throughout the curriculum. I One-quarter credit hour. One clinic hour per week. This course serves as an introduction to optometric patient care.