Too much "muh climate change", too little information on culture, habits, flora and fauna.

This is a wonderful short course featuring remarks by many native and professional speakers. It gave such a nice glimpse into the creative ways scientists and indigenous people are working together to ensure good outcomes to challenges in the Arctic. Very enjoyable.

This course, despite being offered by the University of Alberta, has very little content about Canada’s Arctic culture and peoples. It focuses mainly on Norway and Northwestern Russia. It is nevertheless and thought-provoking introduction to Arctic culture and the challenges, and opportunities, that it faces.

I was really hoping to learn more about the indigenous of the arctic. Wish the videos that had a language other than English provided subtitles in-screen, instead of scrolling down to read along with the note (and only seeing a smaller version of the video on the side.). Course is more geared towards cultures in Norway (which makes sense as that is where the university is from). A little disappointed that the US was mentioned more than Canada.

The information was valuable, but there was major audio issues for the entirety of the course making it much more difficult to follow. I followed via the subtitles and had the course on mute because the audio was incompressible and distracting.

I was hoping more of a Canadian perspective as I live in the Canadian Arctic and it was poorly represented. This is offered by a Canadian school but main focus on Russia, Norway, Greenland and US area's of the arctic. I was also hoping for more information on the impact on mining in the arctic but the focus was on Oil. It was a good course but lacking a lot still. It would have been interesting to hear a perspective on the EU seal ban on the artic as it's had a huge impact and driven Indigenous peoples into further poverty.

A lot of superficial information. It would be worth summarizing and identifying the main factors, but instead everything is quite vague, the course looks "raw", unfinished, this is especially emphasized by the numerous errors in writing russian words in english letters in the first few modules. In general, if the course were to be worked out and the unnecessary things thrown out, it would be much more interesting and faster to perceive the information.

This online class is a really excellent course full of various topics to understand the Arctic Cultures and Peoples. The lessons helped me to understand the Arctic world and many cultures. The testimonies of Nomad people and of the population living in Greenland were well introduced in the videos. People share a lot of interesting stories through the chapters of this course. Now, I better understand the Arctic world and the economy organized in the Northern regions. I hope Greenland will live in peace despite the actual threats happening in the world. I recommend this course for everyone who want to discover the Arctic world!

Learned a lot about the Sámi and Nenets and what kinds of issues people face in the Arctic, really cool course. Loved all the in-person video interviews. Was hoping there would be more about the Inuit in Greenland since that's the only Arctic location I've personally been to, but I guess it's better to cover broad topics than to try to cover every single individual group, of which there are many

This was a great course. I do wish it included more Canadian Indigenous Peoples, although I do understand the similarities between all Arctic Peoples and their cultures and traditions.

The course is very well-organized. The resources are great. I really learned far more than I expected. looking forward to the next Arctic course!

This class was very informative. Really enjoyed this opportunity. Thank You

Great Course, highly recommend to take! I learned so much.

Very informative course and thoroughly enjoyed. Thank you.

Very informative and enjoyable at the same time.

One of the most interesting course I have done

Good course and very educational

This was a pretty good course. It taught some interesting concepts about the people of the Arctic and brought to light some issues I never thought about before. The only issue I saw in this course is the flashcards at the end of the videos do not align with the quizes at all. Other than that it was an intersting topic and I'm glad I took the course.

Wonderful

Of course interesting, educational and giving but a feeling of that it is somewhat dated here and there. Changes in the Arctic are fast and imminent and the almost 10 years that has passed since the course was initiated is telling.