Prerequisites: All previous courses

At this point in the student’s Behavior Technology education, the concentration switches from directly instructing a nonhuman animal to directly instructing a human animal. Up to now, the student, while acting as a coach to a partner, needed to provide objective feedback about what the partner was doing while training. Now the student must teach the partner how to train a chicken using the capacities available to the human animal, including a complete system of language.

Sometimes it seems easier to work with nonhuman animals, maybe because we can blame them for our mistakes or we can forgive them for not understanding us. In this course, students must come face to face with their ability to communicate to another human what they want them to learn. Students need to be able to constructively tell someone what to do and what not to do, either of which…