2022-2023 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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IVYT 104 - Critical Thinking
PROGRAM: Liberal Arts and Sciences
CREDIT HOURS MIN: 1
LECTURE HOURS MIN: 1
DATE OF LAST REVISION: Fall 2020
Assists students in developing critical thinking strategies with academic and workplace applications.
MAJOR COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Upon successful completion of this course the student will be expected to:
- Apply “brainstorming” and creative thinking techniques.
- Identify types of choices and applications.
- Demonstrate and apply a broad set of thinking tools.
- Identify patterns utilized for the purpose of making predictions.
- Discern cause and effect thinking and applications.
- Generate and test hypotheses.
- Research and determine the relevancy of information applied to a given situation.
- Analyze the element of risk when making decisions.
COURSE CONTENT: Topical areas of study include -
- Solving problems
- Believing and knowing
- Fact versus theory
- Forming and applying concepts
- Perceiving
- Analyzing issues
- Language
- Constructing arguments
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