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About the Course

Dog Emotion and Cognition will introduce you to the exciting new study of dog psychology, what the latest discoveries tell us about how dogs think and feel about us, and how we can use this new knowledge to further strengthen our relationship with our best friends....

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DE

Dec 14, 2020

I learned valuable information about dogs. I can better understand the thought processes of my own dogs. I really like that the lecture slides were provided after the lectures, so I could review them.

LT

Aug 4, 2019

Great course with a lot of new information, not just about dogs but even domestication of other species, including humans. The predictability of aggression in humans would be an interesting next topic

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By Rebecca r

Mar 27, 2019

This course was really interesting and has taught me a lot. However the first few weeks were not as focused on dogs, they tended to be more about apes and humans and evoution.

By Johana S

Jul 4, 2020

An ideally inclusive offering for you and your companion to explore at home. In-depth evolutionary theory for you, and the toolkit to test the theories with your friend

By Jose L L

Jun 12, 2020

I learned about dogs only on the latter week 6 -8. wish you could've went with that. The history was okay but it was too dragging for me.

By Wenyi L

Oct 18, 2015

I have learnt some basic knowledge about dog's congnition. It may be more interesting if I have a dog to take part in these experments.

By Samuel O

Aug 12, 2020

Didn't really learn about Dog emotions until week 7&8 out of 8 weeks, the first couple of weeks were talking about other animals.

By Ranjini M

Jun 6, 2020

The course could have been a little more precise. Video lectures could have been more direct. Would have saved a lot of time.

By Emilee G

Sep 19, 2017

Too much info about evolution and apes etc, not enough with dogs. Good teacher, but not as helpful as I'd hoped.

By Gretchen G

Dec 31, 2015

Interesting insights into human interactions with dogs. I just could not finish the entire class.

By dreamy1121

Mar 10, 2017

Compared to the other courses, this one is kind of boring, but learned some origination of dogs :)

By Luyi L

Jan 3, 2017

Too many gestures, movements and ahhhs, slides available but not downloadable (what's the point?).

By Goti P p

Jul 7, 2020

this program is really used full to me. i was learning so new type of things to tech my dog.

By sayna p

Oct 20, 2018

The instructor advertised his book and website so much that it took away from the content.

By Dalia G

Aug 17, 2020

too detailed, too much information to process but the lecturer was actually pretty fun.

By Beatriz R D

Jan 22, 2021

It strays away from the main topic 50% of the times, but still very interesting

By Mariana C L

Jul 16, 2017

En general está ok! pero siento que muchas clases son bastante repetitivas.

By Kelly S

May 11, 2017

Wasn't my favorite but I enjoyed some of it.

By Paula C

Jul 2, 2021

a lot of interesting and helpfull facts

By Sandra V

Mar 31, 2023

Does not meet my expectations

By LaVonia A S

Aug 26, 2015

Fun course!

By LEE L Y

Jul 28, 2020

I think it is a bit complicated to those who have no basic knowledge in this discipline some professional terms are hard to understand even with definition because words are to difficult and rarely seen in daily life and the mode of conducting the lecture I would say is quite boring and passive as the lecturer is just standing still to read script and show powerpoints it is not good to detonate knowledge and for us to really get deep to it I would recommend more experiment video or illustration to make this funnier and rise our intention to learn dogs should be a topic contains loads of fun and is not supposed to be this informatively boring

By Jonathan G

Jan 17, 2018

I find this course redundant and useless. You can simply learn how to train your dog without having to take a course. You simply feed and training a dog not to bark, obey commands and obey verbal commands with some authority as dogs have a pack mentality. You do not need a course to learn this!

By Luiza K

Jul 20, 2021

The audio is not very good and it's uncomfortable to watch some of the videos because of it. The subtitles aren't correct most of the times, so you can't watch them on mute either. The content is good overall and I would've enjoyed the course a lot more if the quality of the material was better.

By Lyanna L

Oct 8, 2023

very little contents are actually about dogs, i know background theories are important, but they really take too much of the time compared to the real dog related topic

By Elisabeth M

Oct 1, 2015

Videos kept cutting out either entirely or the sound would cut out. Made it very difficult to follow.

By Артем С

Aug 18, 2025

This course was a complete disappointment. The topic itself is great and could have been presented in an engaging and informative way, but the organizer clearly had no interest in that. Instead, the only real focus was on promoting and selling their own info-products, which were advertised constantly. If you remove all the self-promotion, the actual content of the course would take about two minutes. The lecturer jumps from topic to topic - from human psychology to animal psychology and random ideas - resulting in nothing but filler and 0% useful information. The course was advertised as being specifically about dogs, and I expected the lecturer to stick to the objectives stated in the description. Unfortunately, that did not happen. If I could give it -1 stars, I would. A total waste of time and money.