OPTOM at University of California, Berkeley

Intro sequences

The shortest canonical route from each entry point to a gateway course.

• 1. OPTOM 200DClinical Examination of the Visual System
  2. OPTOM 200DLClinical Examination of the Visual System
  3. OPTOM 430AOptometry Clinics
• 1. OPTOM 200DLClinical Examination of the Visual System
  2. OPTOM 200DClinical Examination of the Visual System
  3. OPTOM 430AOptometry Clinics
• 1. OPTOM 200AClinical Examination of the Visual System
  2. OPTOM 200BClinical Examination of the Visual System
• 1. OPTOM 200BLClinical Examination of the Visual System
  2. OPTOM 200CLClinical Examination of the Visual System

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate OPTOM coursework.

• OPTOM 430AOptometry Clinicsopens 11 courses (2 directly)
• OPTOM 430COptometry Clinicsopens 9 courses (2 directly)
• OPTOM 440AAdvanced Optometry Clinicopens 7 courses (6 directly)
• OPTOM 200BClinical Examination of the Visual Systemopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• OPTOM 200CClinical Examination of the Visual Systemopens 1 course (1 directly)
• OPTOM 200CLClinical Examination of the Visual Systemopens 1 course (1 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate OPTOM work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 41 OPTOM and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 33 more OPTOM courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in OPTOM. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 6 courses deep, ending at OPTOM 452

  1. OPTOM 200DClinical Examination of the Visual System
  2. OPTOM 430AOptometry Clinics
  3. OPTOM 430COptometry Clinics
  4. OPTOM 440AAdvanced Optometry Clinic
  5. OPTOM 440BAdvanced Optometry Clinic
  6. OPTOM 452Current Concepts in Ocular Disease

• 4 courses deep, ending at OPTOM 200F

  1. OPTOM 200AClinical Examination of the Visual System
  2. OPTOM 200BClinical Examination of the Visual System
  3. OPTOM 200CClinical Examination of the Visual System

• 3 courses deep, ending at OPTOM 215

  1. OPTOM 206AAnatomy and Physiology of the Eye
  2. OPTOM 206BAnatomy and Physiology of the Eye and Visual System
  3. OPTOM 215Visual System Development

• 3 courses deep, ending at OPTOM 236B

  1. OPTOM 200DClinical Examination of the Visual System
  2. OPTOM 236ASystemic Disease and its Ocular Manifestations
  3. OPTOM 236BSystemic Disease and its Ocular Manifestations

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for OPTOM yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under OPTOM yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

OPTOM does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the UC Berkeley campus feed.