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C07 CDP QUALIFYING ENTRY COURSE
An Advanced Award with specially selected units from courses C01 to C06 and marked by each of the respective tutors...
Animal Behaviour a La Carte!

Written and tutored by Ray Coppinger, Lorna Coppinger, Robert Falconer-Taylor, Peter Neville, Val Strong, Wendy Collinson and Kirsty Peake.

OCN Accreditation - Advanced Award 18 Credits. Click Here for details of accreditation.

This nine month course is 6 units by correspondence and successful students automatically fulfil the qualification requirements for the CDP COAPE Diploma Course.

The knowledge gained can greatly enhance the pleasure that you can get from understanding the pet/human relationship and your understanding of how all animals live, behave and survive, whether in a domestic setting or a wild environment.

In the final Special Study, which concerns a subject of the student’s choice concerning feline or canine behaviour or pet/owner relations, the knowledge gained earlier in the course is brought into the companion animal sphere in preparation for studying the CDP COAPE Diploma course in Practical Aspects of Companion Animal Behaviour and Training.

Wolf Behaviour: An introduction to understanding how wolves really live and behave and their changing relationship with man. Dispelling the myths surrounding the wolf and providing insight into its ecology and ethology.
This unit tutored and marked by Kirsty Peake.

An Introduction to Dog Behaviour and Training: How dogs learn and Man's relationship with dogs today. An introduction into dog training techniques and advanced training problem solving.
This unit tutored and marked by Val Strong.

Predatory cats: the ecological impact of this top-of-the-food-chain hunter.
This unit tutored and marked by Peter Neville.

The Psychology of Learning: Something all living organisms do every minute of their waking lives. What is learning for? How does learning work? Getting to grips with the mechanisms underpinning this remarkable phenomenon is essential for any effective training or behaviour modification programme.
This unit tutored and marked by Robert Falconer-Taylor.

The Subject of Ethology: What animals do, and how they earn their living in terms of foraging for food, avoiding hazards and reproducing.
This unit tutored and marked by Ray and Lorna Coppinger.

Special Study: A personal study concerning an aspect of cat or dog behaviour.
This unit tutored and marked by Val Strong, Peter Neville or Robert Falconer-Taylor depending on the topic selected by the student.

Correspondence.

Each Unit of the course notes is e-Mailed out to students as a separate e-Book. Students also have access to the COAPE Student Resource Centre where additional support and course material are available online. The Resource Centre gives you access to a range of rich media content to complement the formal course notes, including video, sound, graphics and pictures, web links, and additional written content.

We supply you with a specially designed ‘template’ on-line to assist you in writing your coursework using your own computer and preferred word processing software. Your coursework is submitted to your tutor via the internet, marked and returned back to you the same way.

Nine months with two runs per year:
1: February 1st to October 31st.
2: September 1st to May 31st the following year.

OCN registration deposit £45 + Course fee £395.

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