The course covers the quantum mechanical details of spectroscopy and molecular property calculations. The main topics are:

- Time-independent perturbation theory
- Static molecular properties as energy derivatives
- Time-dependent perturbation theory and dynamic properties
- Fermi's Golden Rule
- Maxwell's Equations
- Radiation-matter interactions
- Minimal coupling Hamiltonian
- Electric-dipole approximation and optical transitions
- Magnetic dipole and higher multipole transitions
- Introduction to time-dependent self-consistent field theory