Introduction to Optics, 2nd Ed., by Frank L. Pedrotti and Leno S. Pedrotti (Prentice Hall, 1993).  ISBN: 013501545-6 Hardcover Price: ~$90 It's not my absolute favorite but it's a good comprehensive, introduction to geometrical optics, wave optics, and modern optics.  Learn everything in this book and you should be all right in this course. To get the book in a timely fashion, it may be best to order online rather than to go through the bookstores here in town. Both Amazon and Barnes and Noble carry the book. You may be able to get a used copy online at eFollets.  However, I usually always try bestbookbuys.com first to do some comparative shopping.  There may be other places as well. Most of these places can deliver within three days.

Other relevant references that you will probably find useful:

• Fundamentals of Optics by Francis Arthur Jenkins and Harvey Elliott White, Hardcover (McGraw-Hill Companies, 1990). - An oldie but still my favorite. Of course I may be prejudiced since I had undergraduate optics out of this one.

• Principles of Optics: Electromagnetic Theory of Propagation, Interference and Diffraction of Light by Max Born, and Emil Wolf, Paperback (Cambridge University Press, 1999). - What Can I say, many consider this the bible of physical optics and I don't want to be a heretic.

• Introduction to Modern Optics by Grant R. Fowles, Paperback (Dover Publications, 1989). - A good, cheap undergraduate textbook. A complete basic undergraduate-level course in modern optics for students in physics and engineering. The first half deals with classical physical optics; the second, the quantum nature of light.  Highly recommended for the price.
  

• Optics by Eugene Hecht, Hardcover (Addison Wesley Longman, 1997). More modern textbook that replaced Jenkins and White at many places. I like this book, but many students seem to find it obscure.
  

• Schaum's Outline of Optics by Eugene Hecht, Paperback (McGraw-Hill, 1977). If you like to see lots of problems worked out in detail almost any title in the Schaum's Outline Series is worth looking into.
  

• Introduction to Matrix Methods in Optics by A. Gerrard, Paperback (Dover Publications, 1994).  Clear, accessible guide requires little prior knowledge but considers just two topics: paraxial imaging and polarization. Lucid discussions of paraxial imaging properties of a centered optical system, optical resonators and laser beam propagation, matrices in polarization optics and propagation of light through crystals.
  

• Optics and Vision, Frank L. Pedrotti and Leno S. Pedrotti, Hardcover (Prentice Hall, 1987). The 'light' version of our text. Written for students with little background in mathematics, this text covers issues of geometrical optics including lenses, divergence, astigmatism, aberration theory, optical instrumentation, and the optics of the eye and topics related to wave optics and its applications such as lasers and the eye, interference phenomena, polarized light, Fraunhofer diffraction, and fiber optics.