1. Introduction 2. A brief review of statistical mechanics 3. The equation of radiative transfer 4. Optical electromagnetics 5. The lorentz atom 6. Classical hamiltonian dynamics 7. An introduction to quantum mechanics 8. Atomic spectroscopy 9. Molecular spectroscopy 10. Resonance response 11. Line broadening 12. Polarization 13. Rayleigh and raman scattering 14. The density matrix equations 15. Coherent anti-stokes raman spectroscopy