2022-2023 Cal Poly Humboldt Catalog 
    
    Dec 04, 2024  
2022-2023 Cal Poly Humboldt Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Lower Division GE Area A: Critical Thinking Courses


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.