Free Veterinary Classes

Online Veterinarian Courses

Veterinary classes prepare you for a career as a city or country veterinarian. The people living in all communities, no matter how urban or rural, interact with a diverse animal life around them. Practicing veterinarians and family vets deal with all kinds of animal species, beyond the cats and dogs brought in by concerned pet owners. When studying to become a veterinarian, you'll have to master biological systems that apply to many different species of animal. The courses below help you in that arena.

In this article, I'm going to direct the readers to a particular section of the Tufts University official website's OpenCourseWare program involving the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine Veterinary Classes. Among all colleges and universities offering free distance learning over the Internet, Tufts University is the only higher learning institution with a prominent veterinary medicine school. While you'll find some individual vet school classes at other online college sites (some I link to below), this is the most concentrated list of veterinary school classes.

Histology is the study of cell structure, tissue structure, and organ structure and how these affects the function of biological material. You'll start by studying cell tissues, then move on to the structure of organs and other specialized tissues. Histology is one of the basic courses in veterinarian studies from Tufts University's Open SourceWare.

Human-Animal Relationships is about human interaction with all the nonhuman lifeforms surrounding its homes and community. You'll study everything from companion animals to wildlife, including pets, farm animals, and research animals. You'll also survey legal, social, and cultural issues involving the animals who share this Earth with us.

Law and Veterinary Medicine familiarizes prospective veterinary students with the trends and social values involving animals, especially those involving the law. Tufts University's Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine Ethics and Values Signature program is concerned with the ethics and values of the veterinarians they train and who later interact with the community and the animals in their care.

Zoological Medicine is a course which pays special attention to medicine as applied to birds, but also applied to carnivorous animals. You'll start by studying waterfowl medicine, raptor medicine, and avian clinical practice. Later, you'll turn to carnivore medicine and, even later, to ferret medicine. Study material includes articles, medical journals, academic papers, books, websites, and multimedia.

Farm Animals is a pdf sample lecture from one of the many Tufts University free online college courses available through OpenCourseWare. This particular study aid is associated with the Law and Veterinary Medicine class. You can see 5 to 6 samples of other lectures you'll be studying with each of these classes if you follow the links at the bottom of the TU class's web page.

Animal Behavior studies the evolution of behavior in animals and brain evolution. Topics for discussion include aggressive behavior, defensive behavior, feeding, foraging, migration, navigation, communication, courtship, reproduction, social activity, inherited traits, and cognitive patterns. Each concept studied is looked at from an ethological and sociobiological perspective. Animal Behavior is part of the free distance learning program from MIT using their successful OpenCourseWare.

Advanced Animal Behavior is a graduate level free college course interested in teaching students to analyze animals regardless of their surroundings. You'll study an animal's natural behavior patterns and how these change in a laboratory environment. This aspects of include comparative psychology, field biology, and social biology. You'll study the cognitive abilities of vertebrates and invertebrates, but the course focuses on mammals.