PHIL 120 Critical Thinking (C)
This course will significantly improve your reasoning abilities, helping you to become (1) a more careful reader, listener, and thinker, (2) a better judge of evidence and arguments, and (3) more skilled at expressing your ideas in a compelling and effective way. The course will cover: perceptual schemas, cognitive biases, credibility, the uses and abuses of language, recognizing and evaluating arguments, recognizing fallacies, active listening, and nonverbal communication. There will be ample opportunity to develop your reasoning abilities through analysis of a variety of philosophical, religious, ethical, and political arguments.
Core Requirements
Offered
Every Fall and Spring
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