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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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JL

Mar 30, 2025

This course provided valuable insights into how dogs learn through citizen science, which expands data collection beyond the previously limited datasets used by scientists to analyze canine behavior.

RR

May 19, 2020

This course was very informative and interesting. Even people without dogs as pets and having an interest towards pets can take up this course. By doing so, we get to understand ourselves better.

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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 16, 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 19, 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

Sep 30, 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.

By vittorio m

Aug 27, 2023

good content, and good teacher, but Coursera managed to screw up the delivery: the training started on the 18 of August (you could not enrol prior than that), lasts 8 weeks and the final assignment due date is on the 6th. of September, so you are set for failure, and this why I will NEVER pay for their courses.

Basically you are due the final assignment one month BEFORE the last lecture, so either you rush and do 2 or more weeks of lectures every week or you cannot complete the training AND making the assignment. Just for the lazy ones: 16th of August + 8 weeks is 11th October. So, word of advice: do not pay for the course hoping to have a certificate or you will waste the money

By Dean M

Jun 11, 2017

Too much emphasis on a misguided belief in the religion of Darwinism. Focus more on real scientific evidence of dog behavior, and the course will be much better.

By J R

May 24, 2024

An extended sales pitch not a course!

By 李惠

Dec 9, 2015

超级烂的,这个老师很boring