41 courses in the 1976–77 Undergraduate Calendar, read from the scanned original. The text comes from OCR, so check the scanned page before relying on a detail.
Notes
Faculty listed in 1976–77
Professor, Direcior of School M. E. Woodruff, O.D. (College of Optometry of Ontario), Ph.D. (Indiana)
Professors
C. W. Bobier, O.D. (College of Optometry of Ontario), B.A. {Toronto}, M.S. (Ohio State)
Faculty listed in 1976–77
E. J. Fisher, B.A., M.A. (Toronto), D.Sc. (Penn. College of Optometry)
W. S. Long, O.D. (College of Optometry of Ontario), B.A. (Toronto) .
W. M. Lyle, O.D. (College of Optometry of Ontario), M.S., Ph.D. (Indiana)
Faculty listed in 1976–77
J. D. Moreland, B.Sc. (London), DU.C., Ph.D. (imperial College)
R. D. Pellowe, O.D. (College of Optometry of Ontario)
Faculty listed in 1976–77
F. Van Nus, B.A., B.Sc. (Western Michigan}, O.D., |. M.S. (Indiana)
Associate Professors’
A. Remole, O.D. (College of Optometry of Ontario), B.F.A. (Manitoba), M.S., Ph.D. (Indiana)
J. G. Sivak, L.Sc.O. (Montreal), M.S. (Indiana), Ph.D. (Cornell)
G. C. S. Woo, O.D. (College of Optometry of Ontario), M.S., Ph.D. (Indiana)
Assistant Professors
Faculty listed in 1976–77
R. D. Beauchamp, B.A.(McMaster), M.A., Ph.D. (Brown)
M. G. E. Callender, O.D. (College of Optometry of Ontario), B.Sc. (S.G.W.U.), M.Sc. (Waterloo)
W. F. Long, O.D. (Indiana), B.A. (William Jewell Coll., Miss.), M.S., Ph.D. (Mich. State Univ.)
T. D. Williams, O.D. (College of Optometry of Ontario), M.S., Ph.D. (Indiana)
A brief history of the profession and the development of visual science; a consideration of legal and organizational development of optometry; the role of professional associations. The role and scope of optometry and its relationship to other professions and the community.
Reflection and refraction. Image formation. Optical properties of plane and curved surfaces, prisms and thin lenses. Thick tens theory and lens systems. Ray construction. Optical and ophthalmic instruments. Polarization.
The eye as an optical instrument. Ametropia and emmetropia. The refracting mechanism. The stimulus to accommodation. Ocular transmission. Visual acuity and visual performance; stray light in the eye; analysis of the retinal stimulus pattern.
Prereq: Optom. 206*. 3 lect., 3 h. lab., Winter term
OPTOM 224Anatomy of the Eye and Associated Structures
The gross, microscopic and ultra structure of ocular tissues. The embryology and comparative anatomy of the eye will be emphasized. The relationship of the eye to the vascular supply of the head and the nervous system will be studies. This course is credited only upon completion of Optom 234.
. Corequisite: Biol. 201. 3 lect., 3h. lab., Fall term
Ocular motility: description and analysis of eye movements, measurement of eye movements, the innervational systems of the extraocular and intraocular musculature.
Prereq: Optam. 211*. 3 lect., 3 hr. lab., Fall term
Lectures and laboratories on clinical techniques for examination of the optical properties of the eye. Prereq: Optom. 211*. 3 lect., 3 hr. lab., Fall term
Basic disease processes, including inflammation, degeneration, neoplasia; pathogenic microbiology and related diseases; immunity and hypersensitivity; disease caused by physical agents; diseases of the organ systems. Prereq: Biol. 201, Optom. 244*-234*.
The properties of ophthalmic glass and lenses, and the problems and solutions involved in fitting lenses to the eyes. Laboratory work involves processing prescriptions as well as experiments in optics.
The Visual Process: retinal structure; photopigments; photoreception; electrophysiology of the retina and higher centres. Psychophysics of Vision: light and dark adaptation; spatial and temporal light discrimination. Prereq: Optom. 301*. 3 lect., Winter term
A continuation of 306*, dealing with problems peculiar to bificoal and multifocal lenses. Aberrations of thin lenses and the design of lenses of ophthalmic use.
Prereq: Optom. 306*. 3 lect., 4h. lab., Winter term
A continuation of 311*. Psychophysics of Vision: characteristics of normal and defective colour vision. Prereg: Optom. 301*, 311*. 3 lect., 3h. lab., Fall term
Case analysis of the nonstrabismic patient: case history, testing the health and integrity of the visual system, refractive tests, binocular relations, analysis, diagnosis, prognosis and modes of therapy.
Prereq: Optom. 302*, 312*. 3 lect., 2h. lab., Fall term
The physiology of the smooth muscles of the eye, the extraocular striate muscles, the lacrimal apparatus, the cornea, the iris, the lens, the ciliary body and the vitreous body. Production and drainage of aqueous and related influences on intraocular pressure. The vascular supply of the eye.
A detailed study of the diseases which involve the eye and related structures with emphasis on early recognition. Symptomatology, differential diagnosis. Evidence of systematic disease as manifest in the eye. A study of headaches.
Prereq: Optom. 305*, 315*. 3 lect., 1h. lab. bacteriology, Fall term
The lecture course deals with problems involved in selecting, preparing and fitting ophthalmic materials. Optical, cosmetic and comfort requirements, and patient counselling are considered. The laboratory course provides experience in preparing and fitting materials to patients.
Prereq: Optom. 306*, 316*. 2 lect., 4h. lab., Fall term
A series of lectures and laboratories on the principles and procedures of prescribing and fitting contact lenses. Prereq: Optom. 401*, 402*. 2 lect., 2h. lab., Fall term
The student is assigned to the Visual Analysis Clinic and under the direct supervision of optometrists of the clinic staff, carries out routine clinical investigations of patients who attend the public clinic.
No credit given until successful completion of Optometry 418*, Prereg: Permission of Clinic Director. 8 h. clinic, Fall term
Light sources, transmitting and reflecting surfaces; principles of radiometry and photometry; illumination and related factors involved in the control of the visual environment.
Detection and evaluation of sensory and motor characteristics of vision in strabismus. Classifications, diagnosis, prognosis, modes of therapy for strabismus and amblyopia.
The neural processing of colour, brightness, movement and form by the retina, lateral geniculate, cortex, superior colliculus and other brain centres. Neural mechanisms underlying binocular depth perception, the accommodative response and eye movement.
Prereq: Optom. 404*, 3 lect., 3h. lab., Winter term
A series of lectures and laboratories in examining low vision and aniseikonic patients with specific techniques described. Treatment and therapy will be included. Prereq: Optom. 401*, 402*. 2 lect., 2h. lab., Winter term
Each student is required to complete 120 hours of clinical practice during the summer term. Times will be arranged by the student with the approval of the clinic staff. This is a 1.0 credit course.
Prereq: Successful completion of completed Year 4 programme
Lectures relating to legal aspects of practicing Optometry in Canada; the rights and responsibilities of the optometrist in practice; practice management: financial management, establishing a practice, interprofessional relations, office design, optometric assistants professional associations. 2 lect., Fall term
Students with an interest in research may arrange with a professor to undertake a research project of mutual interest. This course serves as an alternative to Psych. 357. Contact the course co-ordinator for details.
Special techniques for the examination of refractive and binocular properties of vision; binocular refraction; prism adaptation; etiology of refractive errors; changes in refraction with age; epidemiology; seminars and presentation of case reports.
Prereq: Optom. 302*, 312*, 402*, 412*. 3 lect., Fall term
Neurohumoral theory, response to drugs, sterile techniques, disenfectants. Drugs used in contact lens practice, drugs used topically on the eye, drugs on the eye and vision.
Prereq: Optom. 404*, 405*, 415*. 4 lect., 1 h. lab.
The clinical programme teaches the student how to provide optometrical services including pathology detection, strabismus evaluation and the application of spectacle therapy, contact lenses and vision training. The patients cared for extend from the pediatric to the geriatric, and include those with perceptual problems, or with low vision. No credit given until successful completion of Optom.
Governmental and social aspects of health and vision care delivery, are discussed in relationship to the epidemiology of vision problems. The special aspects of management of vision problems of pediatric, geriatric and industrial population are discussed.
4 lect., Fall term
$10* Optometrical Jurisprudence and Praxis A continuation of 500*. Prereq: Optom. 500. 2 lect., Winter term
$11* Physiological Optics
A continuation of 501*. This course serves as an alternative to Optom. 513.
Verbal communication and counselling during the optometrical examination, alternatives to technical terminology, report and letter writing, preparing and delivering papers and talks for professional societies and public information.
A brief review of Mendelian genetics, and the molecular basis of modern genetics. Inherited conditions of particular interest, e.g., colour vision, albinism, aniridia, refractive error, retinoblastoma, etc. Genetic counseling, and the detection of carriers.