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CRITICAL THINKING 1101-01
CRN 52629/52630
SYLLABUS
SUPPLEMENT[1]
http://duck.clayton.edu/catalog/CRIT1101.html
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Term:
Summer 07
TR
10.30-12.50
TR 1.30-3.50
Room:
A&S G-227
CRN 10.30: 52629
1.30:
52630
NOTE: Last
Day to withdraw without academic accountability is June 28th.
Instructor:
Dr. Todd Janke
Office:
A&S-210-P
Phone:
678.466.4718
Email:
toddjanke@clayton.edu
webpage:
http://www.a-s.clayton.edu/tjanke
CLASS LISTSERV:
10.30:
CRIT1101-04Summer07@lists.clayton.edu
1.30:
CRIT1101-05Summer07@lists.clayton.edu
(This is where you submit your homework assignments
on Sunday nights).
Textbook: A
Concise Introduction to Logic, 9th ed., by Patrick Hurley. A Logic Resource CD
is packaged with the text. While the CD is primarily for use outside the
classroom, it is EXTREMELY likely that your level of success in much of the
course will be proportional to your use of the CD.
Summary of Course Requirements:
25% each for 2 Semester Exams 6/14 and 7/5
25% Final Exam 7/31
25% Homework Assignments Journal
Class
Participation: Regular attendance and active, informed, prepared participation
are expected. Being prepared includes bringing a hard copy of your completed
homework assignments to the relevant class meeting. Attendance and
participation are also influential in decisions about final grades in borderline
situations.
The
Homework Assignments component
involves (1) the submission of homework assignments to the class Listserv, as
specified in the syllabus, and (2) additional substantive contributions to the
Listserv, made at your own initiative, aimed at improving your own and your
fellow students’ understanding of the material. Also, at each class meeting I
will assign exercises from the book to be completed for the next class meeting.
These will not be collected, but will be an integral part of each class
meeting: you will be called on to
demonstrate that you have worked the exercises.
All
Homework Assignments listed below as H2, etc., must be submitted to the class
Listserv by midnight Sunday for the following week excepting only the first week
of class. Thus, for Week 2, H2 is due by midnight Sunday, June 3rd, and so on. You must bring to the First Exam and Final Exams a hard-copy
“journal” of your work in which you have pruned the non-substantive and
organized your contributions to the class discussion list. Include a table of contents, a
paragraph or two assessing your journal work, and a properly edited compilation
of your primary (Homework) and secondary (Additional Contributions) submissions.
Factors to consider in your self-assessment include: number and timeliness
of submissions; completeness and thoroughness of work; substantive quality of
submissions; and extent of additional substantive contributions. Score
yourself on a ten- point scale, with ten being the highest. (Do not put
the journal in a binder of any sort; just staple the pages together.)
SCHEDULE OF STUDY AND WORK
Read
(and reread!) the chapter indicated and work (and rework!) the exercises until
you are proficient with the concepts and their applications. Answers to
“starred” exercises are recorded in the back of the book. Make maximal use
of the course software, Learning Logic and Logic Coach; it provides a source of
convenient and immediate feedback on your work. Learning Logic is
interactive and Logic Coach contains exercises and answers from the textbook.
In
submitting your homework assignments, identify the assignment, in the subject
block of your email, as H2, H3, etc., together with your last name. For
example, were I submitting the first assignment, I would type “H2 Janke” in
the subject block.
As stated above, the assignments are due by midnight Sunday for the
following week; there will be no credit given for late submissions, barring
extraordinary circumstances. Homework evaluation criteria include
completeness, thoroughness, clarity of presentation and reasonable accuracy.
Collectively, this work determines twenty-five percent (25%) of your
course grade (First Exam Homework Journal = 10% and Final Exam Homework Journal
= 15%). Since, in general, exam grades tend to be lower than homework grades,
and since homework grades are almost completely within your control, it is
clearly in your best interest to do your very best on the homework assignments.
Also note that the homework assignments are selective and so cover only a
portion of what will be tested on the exams.
Note: There may be departures from
this schedule and there may be periodic special assignments in addition to those
detailed in the schedule. It is the student’s responsibility to stay
apprised of any changes or additions
Tip: You may benefit from reading
and working with the following:
FUNDAMENTALS
OF ARGUMENT
http://a-s.clayton.edu/jackson/funarg.html
and
DEDUCTIVE
REASONING
http://a-s.clayton.edu/jackson/deduct.html
These
items may be found on Dr. Jackson’s homepage http://a-s.clayton.edu/jackson/.
The
Fundamentals document is especially relevant to the topics addressed in chapter
1 and the Deduction document to topics in chapters 4 and 5. I recommend
that you read them both through early on, to get a sense for what is there, and
return to them as you will.
READING SCHEDULE
Additional
homework assignments will be given in class for each section
•Chapter
One: Basic Concepts 1.1 and 1.2
•Chapter
One: Basic concepts 1.3-1.5
H2:
Open Argument Paper (OAP):
Watch an episode of Law and Order (the original one, there are plenty of
re-runs on TNT), or find an article from the newspaper, and clean up,
reformulate, and clearly state AN ARGUMENT that is put forth in the episode or
in the paper. Send your cleaned-up, restated version of the argument to the
class list-serv. (SEE: “Constructing
Your Own Argument” in the Fundamentals of Argument document listed above).
For Law and Order, the arguments are usually best illustrated in the
court-room portion of the program. In the newspaper, arguments are usually best
illustrated on the OP/ED pages.
•Chapter
Two: Language:
Meaning and Definition 2.3 and 2.4
H3:
Evaluative Argument Paper (EAP):
Evaluate one or more of your fellow students’ H1 or H2 submissions,
following the Argument Evaluation guidelines in the Fundamentals of Argument
document listed above. Identify
precisely the conclusion and premise claims of the argument, and then evaluate
both using the terminology and concepts we’ve learned so far:
Ask yourself ‘Is the argument sound/strong, are the premises
true/reliable/justified?’
•1st
exam 6/14
H4:
OAP
•Chapter
Four: Categorical Propositions
4.1-4.4
•Chapter
Four: Categorical Propositions 4.4
and 4.6
Week 5
H5:
EAP
•Chapter
Five: Categorical Syllogisms 5.1-5.2
•Chapter
Five: Categorical Syllogisms 5.3 and
5.5
Week 6
H6:
OAP
•2nd
Exam 7/5
Week 7
H7:
EAP
Chapter
Nine: Analogical Reasoning
Chapter
Nine: Hypothetical Reasoning
H8:
OAP
Chapter
3
Chapter
3
Week 9
H9:
EAP
•Chapter
3
•Review
for Final
•Final
Exam 7/31