Lower Division GE Area A: Critical Thinking Courses

GE Area A: Critical Thinking

• BA 105 - Critical Thinking in Organizations Units: 3
• COMM 103 - Critical Listening & Thinking Units: 3
• CS 100 - Critical Thinking with Computers Units: 3
• ENGL 107 - Critical Writing Units: 3
• FOR 100 - Critical Thinking & Social & Environmental Responsibility Units: 3
• FREN 100 - Enlightenment & Post-Colonialism Units: 3
• GEOG 100 - Critical Thinking: Technology & the Digital World Units: 3
• INTL 100 - Thinking Critically About Globalization Units: 3
• INTL 100S - Thinking Critically About Globalization Units: 3
• PHIL 100 - Logic Units: 3
• PSYC 100 - Psychology of Critical Thinking Units: 3

Goals

After completing the GE Area A: Critical Thinking requirement, students will be able to:

• identify the premises and conclusion of an argument and determine its validity and soundness.
• analyze, criticize, and advocate ideas
• distinguish deductive from inductive argument forms, identify their fallacies, and reason inductively and deductively
• distinguish matters of fact from issues of judgment or opinion and reach well-supported factual or judgmental conclusions from a wide diversity of real world examples.