Critical and Creative Thinking Skills

Course description

This course examines the essential elements of both critical and creative thinking, including identifying and evaluating arguments and applying them to the solution of problems. This course teaches students to identify and evaluate the nature of reasons and evidence, evaluate the validity and soundness of arguments, identify and analyze fallacies and faulty reasoning, determine the strengths, weaknesses and limitations of arguments, and integrate their critical thinking skills into the creative process. Critical and creative thinking are applied to problem solving throughout the course, and students develop the skills to create their own arguments to persuade others and support their own solutions to practical problems.

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