Vision and Vision-related Courses

CVS faculty have designed a series of courses to provide training in vision sciences. Two "foundations" courses form the core of the curriculum. These courses provide students with a general background knowledge of sensory systems and high-level perceptual function. The foundations courses are team taught by CVS faculty and integrate all four principle research approaches used in modern vision science: computational, neuroscientific, psychophysical, and optical. The foundations courses are supplemented by a series of seminars in advanced topics in vision or related fields. CVS works to insure that at least one advanced seminar is taught per year, either through the CVS special topics seminar or through a seminar offered in an affiliated department. The foundations and seminar courses are supplemented by regular course offerings in their own or other departments. The director of vision training also teaches a bi-annual course in grant writing in which students develop NIH NRSA proposals for submission at the end of the spring term.

Foundation Courses

• BCS/CVS 504 Sensory Systems
• BCS/CVS 505 Perception and Motor Systems

Special Topics Seminars

• BCS 513 MR Imaging: From Spins to Brains
• BCS 521 Audition
• BCS 526 Principles of Eye Design
• BCS/CVS 528 Special Topics in Vision: Advanced Problems in High-level Vision
• BCS/CVS 528 From the Eye to the Hand and Back Again: Visually Guided Action
• BCS/CVS 528 Eye Movements and Attention

Professional Development Courses

• BCS 582 Grant Writing in Brain and Cognitive Sciences
• IND 501 Ethics and Professional Integrity

Other Regularly Offered Courses

• CSC 446 Mathematical Foundations of AI
• CSC 449/BCS 536 Sensory Motor Systems
• BCS 512 Computational Methods in Cognitive Science
• ANA 515 Advanced Topics in Neural Control of Movement
• ANA 517 Advanced Topics in Sensory Systems
• BCS 541 Integrative and Systems Neuroscience
• BCS 547 Introduction to Computational Neuroscience
• CSC 577 Seminar in AI

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