Graduate Programs
Academics

Graduate Program Curriculum

The Core Curriculum consists of the following courses, each taught on the semester system: Proseminar I, Proseminar II, Introduction to Quantitative Methods, Ethics in Research (one credit), and five optional graduate seminars or tutorials.  In addition, all full-time students are required to attend 75% of the SIVR Colloquium series, VisioNYC colloquium, and the journal club, pass oral exams, complete the pre-dissertation proposal, a specialty exam, and a Ph.D. dissertation

Note that students in the O.D./M.S. or O.D./Ph.D. program take regularly scheduled optometry program courses in place of Proseminar I and II and are required to attend at least six sessions of the SIVR Colloquium series, VisioNYC colloquium, the journal club, or Academy or ARVO scientific conferences.

Option List Seminars

  • Optics of the Eye           
  • Spatial-temporal Processes           
  • Color Vision          
  • Vegetative Physiology of the Eye           
  • LGN and Cortex           
  • Ocular Motility           
  • Binocular Vision           
  • Visual Perception           
  • Ocular Biochemistry           
  • Ocular Pharmacology           
  • Ocular Pathology           
  • Accommodation           
  • Visual Physiology of the Eye           
  • Visual Development           
  • Receptors and Cell Signaling Path           
  • Pre-dissertation Research           
  • Dissertation Research           
  • Independent Study   


Approved for Graduate Credit

  • Selected professional program courses
  • Clinical Psychophysics
  • Oculomotor Systems and Perception
  • Advanced Seminar in Binocular Vision
  • Amblyopia
  • Advanced Perception
  • Advanced Geometrical Optics
  • Research Methods
  • Computer Programming in the Vision Science Laboratory
  • Human Refractive Error
  • Psychophysical Aspects of Perimetry in Glaucoma
  • Structure, Function, + Clinical Role of Tear Film in Protecting Ocular Surfaces