A curriculum for industrial arts, vocational schools, and universities in fiber optics 10 to 15 weeks long. A basic understanding of electronics and mathematics is suggested. Course includes a text for classroom or lecture, lab manual for student experiments, and lab kit with all required components. The classroom text has three parts. Part One puts fiber optics into perspective as a transmission medium and describes its advantages over other media. Part Two examines fiber sources, detectors, and connectors because of the significant difference between them and their electronic counterparts. Part Three explains fiber optics system design, installation, special fiber optics hardware, applications, and equipment.