PHIL 1102 Critical Thinking

A study of the methods and principles for analyzing and evaluating claims and arguments with particular attention to fallacies and deductive and inductive reasoning.

Registration Name

Critical Thinking

Lecture Hours

3

Lab Hours

0

Credits

3

Student Learning Outcomes

Upon the completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate the following outcome-based learning skills:

1. Understand the importance of careful, critical thinking, not only in academic pursuits, but in all the activities of life.
2. Begin the personal journey away from cocksure, vague, and self-contradictory ways of thinking and speaking and toward more tentative, precise, and self-consistent ways of thinking and speaking.
3. Learn to evaluate unsupported claims, to analyze and evaluate arguments, and to recognize common fallacies.
4. Learn the skill of independent and critical thinking.