CRIT 1101 - Critical Thinking (3-0-3)

A course focusing on skills essential to effective critical thinking in both academic and general use.  The study of important common components (issue, method, evidence, conclusion) provides a basis for the construction, analysis, and evaluation, of arguments in a variety of contexts.  The course also addresses fundamental elements of informal logic (e.g., induction, deduction, fallacy-avoidance) and of elementary formal logic (e.g., tests for validity) as they inform good reasoning in any context, from everyday decision-making to academic argumentation.  [Note: Learning Support students who are required to take ENGL 0099 and/or READ 0099 must exit the requirement(s) before they can enroll in this course.]

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