Optometry
Degrees and Certificates
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Curriculum
Courses
OPTOD 1401: Research
Credits 1.0 4.00OPTOD 1411: Research
Credits 1.0 4.00OPTOD 1412: Optometry Competency
Credits 1.0 12.00These courses serve to enhance the mastery of optometry knowledge, skills, techniques, and concepts. A course in this sequence may be assigned by the Student Promotion and Graduation Committee to a student who has been academically decelerated after receiving a non-passing grade in a required course within the Doctor of Optometry curriculum. The course is assigned for 1-12 credit hours during the quarter in which the student repeats the failed course. The assigned course will include content previously completed that is deemed critical for success in the Doctor of Optometry curriculum. This is a pass/fail course; letter grades are not assigned. The student who fails to successfully complete the assigned Optometry Competency course will be referred to the Student Promotion and Graduation Committee and may be dismissed from the college.
OPTOD 1413: Optometry Competency
Credits 1.0 12.00These courses serve to enhance the mastery of optometry knowledge, skills, techniques, and concepts. A course in this sequence may be assigned by the Student Promotion and Graduation Committee to a student who has been academically decelerated after receiving a non-passing grade in a required course within the Doctor of Optometry curriculum. The course is assigned for 1-12 credit hours during the quarter in which the student repeats the failed course. The assigned course will include content previously completed that is deemed critical for success in the Doctor of Optometry curriculum. This is a pass/fail course; letter grades are not assigned. The student who fails to successfully complete the assigned Optometry Competency course will be referred to the Student Promotion and Graduation Committee and may be dismissed from the college.
OPTOD 1414: Optometry Competency
Credits 1.0 12.00These courses serve to enhance the mastery of optometry knowledge, skills, techniques, and concepts. A course in this sequence may be assigned by the Student Promotion and Graduation Committee to a student who has been academically decelerated after receiving a non-passing grade in a required course within the Doctor of Optometry curriculum. The course is assigned for 1-12 credit hours during the quarter in which the student repeats the failed course. The assigned course will include content previously completed that is deemed critical for success in the Doctor of Optometry curriculum. This is a pass/fail course; letter grades are not assigned. The student who fails to successfully complete the assigned Optometry Competency course will be referred to the Student Promotion and Graduation Committee and may be dismissed from the college.
OPTOD 1415: Optometry Competency
Credits 1.0 12.00These courses serve to enhance the mastery of optometry knowledge, skills, techniques, and concepts. A course in this sequence may be assigned by the Student Promotion and Graduation Committee to a student who has been academically decelerated after receiving a non-passing grade in a required course within the Doctor of Optometry curriculum. The course is assigned for 1-12 credit hours during the quarter in which the student repeats the failed course. The assigned course will include content previously completed that is deemed critical for success in the Doctor of Optometry curriculum. This is a pass/fail course; letter grades are not assigned. The student who fails to successfully complete the assigned Optometry Competency course will be referred to the Student Promotion and Graduation Committee and may be dismissed from the college.
OPTOD 1416: Selected Studies
Credits 1.0 3.00This course allows students to pursue their special interests. This may include writing of abstracts or a review of current vision science literature. This may be repeated for credit with permission of the instructor.
OPTOD 1417: Selected Studies
Credits 1.0 3.00This course allows students to pursue their special interests. This may include writing of abstracts or a review of current vision science literature. This may be repeated for credit with permission of the instructor.
OPTOD 1418: Selected Studies
Credits 1.0 3.00This course allows students to pursue their special interests. This may include writing of abstracts or a review of current vision science literature. This may be repeated for credit with permission of the instructor.
OPTOD 1419: Selected Studies
Credits 1.0 3.00This course allows students to pursue their special interests. This may include writing of abstracts or a review of current vision science literature. This may be repeated for credit with permission of the instructor.
OPTOD 1430: Study Skills Enhancement
Credits 2.0This course allows students to understand and apply test-taking strategies in order to increase their success in professional studies.
OPTOD 1431: Applied Basic Science Review
Credits 1.0 3.00This is a review course designed to assist students in identifying topic areas that require additional study in preparation for licensing exams.
OPTOD 1440: Advanced Topics for Ocular Surface Disease
Credits 0.5This course will present various approaches in the evaluation, treatment, and management of patients with ocular surface disease. The utilization of diagnostic testing and the process in selection of appropriate treatment(s) will be introduced. Components of a dry eye evaluation will be discussed including diagnosis, dry eye consultation, home therapy considerations, pharmaceutical interventions, contact lens considerations, procedural heat and light therapy, and surgical approaches.
OPTOD 1441: Advanced Topics for GP Contact Lenses
Credits 1.5This course will enhance basic corneal topography and gas permeable (GP) contact lens principles with advanced topics, such as: simulated fluorescein patterns, toric and multifocal corneal GPs, scleral lenses with toric and multifocal options, and standard and dual axis orthokeratology (ortho-K).
OPTOD 1443: Advanced Topics: Pediatric Eye Disease Pediatric Eye Disease
Credits 1.0This course will review the most common ocular conditions affecting the anterior and posterior segments of the eye in the pediatric population. In addition, common developmental syndromes will be reviewed. The etiology, epidemiology, diagnosis, and management are presented for each condition. Additionally, how these diseases impact various aspects of the child's quality of life including specific medications, educational services, and the interdisciplinary care involved.
OPTOD 1451: Spanish for Optometric Eye Exams
Credits 1.5This course emphasizes the vocabulary associated with the optometric examination. Students are expected to develop basic communication skills in Spanish. This course is intended for students with minimal knowledge of the Spanish language.
OPTOD 1452: Introduction to Sports Vision
Credits 0.5This course presents the basics of sports vision evaluation and therapy. The steps involved in performing a comprehensive sports vision examination as well as techniques to evaluate sports-related visual performance will be introduced. Different considerations for sports vision will be discussed, including refractive compensation, prevention and management of ocular injury, assessment and remediation of functional vision inefficiencies, vision enhancement training techniques, and sports vision consultation.
OPTOD 1453: Neuro-Optometric Rehabilitation
Credits 1.0This course explores the visual and ocular effects that occur as a result of acquired traumatic brain injury. The mechanism of the neurological and visual presentation following acquired brain injury is discussed, including primary and secondary injury. The course will explore imaging and electrodiagnostics as diagnostic tools and will cover the staging and implementation of various optometric management and treatment rationales with an emphasis on interdisciplinary care.
OPTOD 1460: Fourth Year Clinical Skills Enhancement
Credits 1.0 18.00Individualized supervised clinical experiences to enhance the examination skills of students are the focus of this course. This course may be repeated for credit.
OPTOD 1510: Clinical Optometry I
Credits 3.5OPTOD 1511: Contemporary Issues in Healthcare & Ethics
Credits 1.0OPTOD 1514: Optometry Business Management I
Credits 1.0OPTOD 1516: Professionalism I
Credits 0.5OPTOD 1517: Professionalism II
Credits 0.5OPTOD 1518: Professionalism III
Credits 0.5OPTOD 1520: Clinical Optometry II
Credits 3.0OPTOD 1522: Visual Perception
Credits 2.0OPTOD 1530: Clinical Optometry III
Credits 3.0OPTOD 1540: Optics I
Credits 4.0OPTOD 1541: Optics II
Credits 4.0OPTOD 1542: Optics III
Credits 2.0OPTOD 1550: Visual Neuroanatomy & Visual Neurophysiology
Credits 3.5OPTOD 1561: Ocular Anatomy & Physiology I
Credits 3.5OPTOD 1562: Ocular Anatomy & Physiology II
Credits 2.0OPTOD 1616: Professionalism IV
Credits 0.5OPTOD 1617: Professionalism V
Credits 0.5OPTOD 1618: Professionalism VI
Credits 0.5OPTOD 1620: Basic Binocular Function
Credits 3.0OPTOD 1621: Ocular Motility
Credits 2.0OPTOD 1623: Diagnosis and Management of Non-Strabismic Binocular Vision Disorders
Credits 4.0OPTOD 1630: Ocular Disease I
Credits 3.0OPTOD 1631: Ocular Disease II
Credits 3.0OPTOD 1632: Ocular Disease III
Credits 3.0OPTOD 1633: Surgical Management of the Eyelid & Ocular Adnexa
Credits 1.5OPTOD 1635: Ocular Therapeutics I
Credits 1.0OPTOD 1636: Ocular Therapeutics II
Credits 1.0OPTOD 1637: Ocular Therapeutics III
Credits 3.0OPTOD 1640: Clinical Optometry IV
Credits 3.0OPTOD 1643: Ophthalmic Optics I
Credits 4.0OPTOD 1644: Ophthalmic Optics II
Credits 4.0OPTOD 1648: Contact Lens I
Credits 3.0OPTOD 1649: Contact Lens II
Credits 3.0OPTOD 1650: Clinical Optometry V
Credits 3.0OPTOD 1660: Clinical Optometry VI
Credits 3.0OPTOD 1661: Clinical Services Proficiency
Credits 0.5OPTOD 1680: Capstone Project: Research Design, Biostatistics & Literature Search
Credits 1.0OPTOD 1681: Capstone Project: Study Design
Credits 1.0OPTOD 1700: Clinical Medicine Procedures
Credits 2.5OPTOD 1701: Behavioral Medicine
Credits 1.0OPTOD 1714: Optometry Business Management II
Credits 2.0OPTOD 1716: Professionalism VII
Credits 0.5OPTOD 1717: Professionalism VIII
Credits 0.5OPTOD 1718: Professionalism IX
Credits 0.5OPTOD 1719: Professionalism X
Credits 0.5OPTOD 1724: Pediatric Optometry
Credits 2.5OPTOD 1725: Diagnosis of Strabismus & Amblyopia
Credits 3.5OPTOD 1726: Treatment & Management of Strabismus & Amblyopia
Credits 2.5OPTOD 1727: Visual Information Processing & Learning-Related Vision Problems
Credits 3.0OPTOD 1733: Ocular Disease IV
Credits 2.5This course sequence covers signs and symptoms, pathophysiology, clinical course, differential diagnosis, treatment, and management of ocular diseases of the anterior and posterior segment of the eye and ocular adnexa.