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Nov 21, 2024
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2022-2023 Yavapai College Catalog [PREVIOUS CATALOG YEAR]
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AGC 195 - Canine Public Skills
Description: Rules, ethics, laws, and training for dogs and handlers to test for therapy or service dog teams. Student/dog team training in a variety of public environments such as health facilities and businesses.
Prerequisites: AGC 192 (may be taken concurrently)
Credits: 2
Lecture: 1
Lab: 2
Course Content:
- Basic canine training skills
- Canine handling skills
- Canine behavior expectations in health facilities and other businesses
- Canine-to-canine greetings
- Canine-to-human greetings
- Communication in public while handling a dog
- Traveling, camping, hiking and dog sports
- Therapy, service and assistance dogs
- Laws and ethics regarding assistance, service and therapy dogs
Learning Outcomes:
- Apply basic canine training behavior skills. (1)
- Use dog handling skills in public environments. (2-5)
- Apply proper dog handling skills in health facilities and other businesses. (2,3)
- Recognize and train proper canine-to-canine greetings. (1,2,4)
- Recognize and train dogs' polite approaches to humans. (1,2,5)
- Communicate with people while handling a dog. (2,6)
- Recognize and train proper canine manners and behaviors for traveling, camping, hiking and dog sport activities. (1,2,7)
- Discuss the differences between assistance, service and therapy dogs. (8,9)
- Discuss and evaluate the laws and ethics regarding assistance, service and therapy dogs. (9)
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