Imaging Science

(4 Credits)

This course is about the science and practice of using microscopes and it examines the (human) capacity to form images with aesthetic, technological, and existential purpose in mind. Our objective will be to ask and answer such questions as: How does the eye-brain complex form images, how a microscope works, and what we must do to provide the highest scientific and aesthetic content in our images that our experience allows. The science of imaging, and goal of this course, concerns how to manipulate microscope hardware and software to answer these questions.