Description
This course is designed to cultivate higher-order thinking, which is governed by intellectual standards of lucidity, rigor, veracity, applicability, coherence, plausible truth, virtue, and equity. This course provides an introduction to critical thinking, while covering topics to include but not limited to: the fundamentals of critical thinking; language; fallacies; argument, analysis, and evaluation; traditions within informal logic; researching and writing argumentative essays; and practical applications. Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to distinguish between deductive and inductive reasoning. Prerequisite: PSY 110 Introduction to Psychology.