Consortium for International Studies | Evaluated Learning Experience
Critical Thinking Foundations ENG 201
Varies; self-study.
July 2022 – Present.
Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: assess the evidence to support different types of claims; describe how to reconstruct an argument from contexts that undermine claims used in arguments; recognize language issues, such as ambiguity, vagueness, extraneous material, buzz words, and incomplete information; apply thinking and reasoning with categories; translate natural language into the symbolic language of propositional logic; demonstrate how a truth table is constructed to test arguments for validity; evaluate the acceptability of premises, the relevance to a conclusion, and support of that conclusion; distinguish between deductive and inductive arguments; identify the rules of deductive inference and proof strategies; describe the basics of reasoning with probability claims; draw inferences using different types of inductive argument; and recognize the difference between, and types, of formal and informal fallacies.
Major topics include supporting claims through evidence, reconstruction of arguments, identification of language, logic and reasoning, deductive and inductive arguments, inferences and fallacies.
In the lower division baccalaureate/associate degree category, 3 semester hours in Critical Thinking (7/22).