Great universities constantly expand their reach, working across traditional boundaries to grasp and meet the global community's most critical needs. This begins with sharing knowledge -- among colleagues, among departments, among schools and finally across countries and continents.

Tufts OpenCourseWare is part of a new educational movement initiated by MIT where course content is accessible for free to everyone online. Tufts' initial offerings demonstrate the University's strength in the life sciences, as well as a multidisciplinary approach, an international perspective and an underlying ethic of service to our local, national and international communities.

Course Highlight: Pathophysiology of Infectious Disease, Tufts School of Medicine Advances in identification, culture techniques, diagnosis, and treatment have led to remarkable improvements in the consequences of infectious diseases worldwide in the past quarter century. However, pathogens continue to emerge and affect mankind, such as Ebola, anthrax, smallpox, West Nile Virus, monkeypox virus, and others.