1 A Brief History 2 Wave Motion 3 Electromagnetic Theory, Photons, and Light 4 The Propagation of Light 5 Geometrical Optics 6 More on Geometrical Optics 7 The Superposition of Waves 8 Polarization 9 Interference 10 Diffraction 11 Fourier Optics 12 Basics of Coherence Theory 13 Modern Optics: Lasers and Other Topics