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AAHE
Principles
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Goals
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Outcomes
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California
State University, Sacramento |
Area A-3 Critical
Thinking
- Students study about and consciously develop skills in critical
thinking.
- Knowledge through logical analysis and argument construction is
pursued throughout the course.
- Instruction develops understanding
of logical relationships between premises and conclusions.
- Instruction
develops ability to recognize more common formal and informal fallacies.
- Grading
reflects emphasis on logical processes.
- Develops basic skills,
applicable to a variety of academic subjects and to the fulfillment
of such roles as citizen, consumer, leader and moral agent.
- Skill
in evaluating the validity, strength and relevance of arguments.
- A
sense of logical structure of both inductive and deductive
forms.
- Awareness of uses and abuses of argument language, including
connotation, ambiguity and definition.
- Skill in handling a
variety of arguments in variety of contexts.
- Ability to argue
fairly and to handle bias, emotion, and propaganda.
Students will:
- Locate the argument in a passage
- Detect errors of reasoning
and explain how the reasoning is in error.
- Evaluate evidence and make appropriate inferences from that evidence.
- Construct
and defend an argument in support of or in opposition to a proposition
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