Description
Critical and effective thinking provides a student with essential intellectual tools and practices necessary to develop "high-order thinking skills". These skills assist students to become more responsible in and for their learning. This course approaches critical and effective thinking as a holistic process for taking charge of and being accountable for one's own thinking and learning. This course is designed to foster and enhance affective thinking as well as developing critical thinking abilities such as fair-mindedness, intellectual humility and intellectual integrity. Drawing from everyday examples coupled with related activities, students examine and chronicle their own understanding and growth in their practice of affective thinking while fostering a foundation for a lifelong development and application of critical and affective thinking. Offered every fall semester. Recommended for majors in social science, and philosophy and religion. Prerequisite: successful completion of ENG