In this course, students will discover that leadership does not always mean a position, a title, time, money, influence, or any of the traits typically “required” to be a leader or produce the results of a leader. Instead of more knowledge about leadership, students will gain access to actually being a leader and effectively exercising leadership as natural self-expression. During the course conventional thought will be challenged, new ways of thinking will emerge, and students will leave with new actions to create even greater success in the areas of life and leadership that matter most.

Credits: 2

This elective course is designed to foster interest and discussion on major public health issues, and promote interprofessional study and research related to One Health. Each topic will focus on key challenges related to a specific health topic and explore cutting-edge scientific evidence and the potential impact of different interventions. The outcome will be to highlight how these challenges are being addressed at the national, state, and/or local levels and propose recommendations for future research and practice.

Credits: 2

This course allows students to understand and apply test taking strategies in order to increase their success in professional studies.

Prerequisites: Prerequisite: Permission from the course director

Credits: 2

This course allows students to pursue their special interests. This may include writing of abstracts or a review of current vision science literature. This course may be repeated for credit.

Prerequisites: Prerequisite: Permission from the course director

Credits: 1-3

This course is designed to review the athlete's visual system in multiple sports including baseball, softball, football, basketball, and hockey. Students will learn how to perform a comprehensive and systematic evaluation of an athlete's visual system, and make appropriate recommendations for their specific sport based on refractive error, visual processing, and visual motor integration. A range of options involving training techniques and lenses will be discussed to improve an athlete's visual system specifically for their sport. This course includes hands on exposure to techniques available to training an athlete.

Prerequisite: Prerequisite: Permission from the course director

Credits: 1.5

Individualized supervised clinical experiences to enhance the examination skills of students are the focus of this course. This course may be repeated for credit.

Prerequisites: Prerequisite: Permission from the course director

Credits: 1-7.5

Individualized supervised clinical experiences to enhance the examination skills of students are the focus of this course. This course may be repeated for credit.

Credits: 1-18

This course is designed to augment the basic education on specialty test indications and their results. This course will explore image acquisition, interpretation, clinical correlates and their application to patient care.

Prerequisites: Prerequisite: Permission from the course director

Credits: 1

Students develop basic communication skills in Spanish. This course emphasizes the vocabulary associated with the optometric examination. This course is for students with minimal knowledge of the Spanish language.

Prerequisites: Prerequisite: Permission from the course director

Credits: 1.5

Vision Correction Surgery is a field in which there is active collaboration between ophthalmologists and optometrists. Students will be introduced to the various modalities used in vision correction surgery. This course will give the student a better understanding of the pre-operative and post-operative collaborative care necessary to optimize outcomes for patients who have received vision correction surgery.

Prerequisites: Prerequisite: Permission from the course director

Credits: 1.5

This series of courses serves to enhance the mastery of optometry skills, techniques and concepts. A course in the sequence is 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 a 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. A student who fails to successfully complete the assigned Optometric Competency Course will be referred to the Student Promotion and Graduation Committee and may be dismissed from the college.

Prerequisites: Approval of the Student Promotion and Graduation Committee, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, or Dean

Credits: 1-12

This series of courses serves to enhance the mastery of optometry skills, techniques and concepts. A course in the sequence is 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 a 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. A student who fails to successfully complete the assigned Optometric Competency Course will be referred to the Student Promotion and Graduation Committee and may be dismissed from the college.

Prerequisites: Approval of the Student Promotion and Graduation Committee, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, or Dean

Credits: 1-12

This series of courses serves to enhance the mastery of optometry skills, techniques and concepts. A course in the sequence is 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 a 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. A student who fails to successfully complete the assigned Optometric Competency Course will be referred to the Student Promotion and Graduation Committee and may be dismissed from the college.

Prerequisites: Approval of the Student Promotion and Graduation Committee, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, or Dean

Credits: 1-12