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Curriculum subject

Introduction to optometry

Subject
Subject code 4OP09/SO
Subject name Introduction to optometry
Credit points 4 ECTS
Grading method Grade prelim (letters)
Curriculum subject
Curriculum 2011 OP
Study year 1
Semester Spring semester
Subject type Mandatory
Academicians
Vootele Tamme
Subject loads
Lecture 26
Seminar 12
Personal study 14
E-study 52
Aim
1. To provide basic knowledge about eye amethropies and the possibilities for correcting them;
2. to provide an overview about the essence of vision;
3. to explain the essence and the relation of accommodation with eye’s close and far off point.
Study outcome
Having passed the subject, the student:
1. can estimate the size of amethropy and possible ways of correction;
2. can describe the range of human vision and accommodation ability on the basis of given parameters;
3. has a perception about vision physiology.
Current rounds
None
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