Objectives
At the completion of the course, students are able to:
 
  • Identify the characteristics of critical thinking and its benefits
  • Examine the roles of reason and emotion in critical thinking
  • Identify the different communication styles and how they are shaped
  • Describe how to evaluate evidence and avoid cognitive and perceptual errors
  • Identify fallacies and strategies to avoid them
  • Construct, analyze and evaluate arguments
  • Distinguish between inductive and deductive arguments
  • Discuss moral reasoning and its development
  • Identify marketing strategies and their impact on the consumer
  • Understand and critically analyze the influence of mass media
  • Evaluate scientific explanations and analyze experimental results