Detailed Course Information |
Winter 2018
Apr 28,2024 |
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| PHL 221_H - Critical Thinking-Honors |
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This class is an honors option available to students prepared to complete honors-level coursework. Honors options delve deeper into course topics and require a high level of student motivation; the pace may be faster than non-honors courses.WR 121-readiness (score of at least 96 on the sentence-skills placement test) recommended. Contact the instructor and visit www.lanecc.edu/honors for more information. This course is aimed at developing practical reasoning skills. Students will learn to analyze and evaluate arguments, detect fallacies, distinguish science from pseudo-science, recognize media bias, and better understand methods of deception employed by advertisers, political organizations and others. A central goal of this course is to develop an attitude of fair-mindedness and intellectual honesty while learning to avoid the pitfalls of defensiveness and rationalization. This course also meets Lane Degree requirements that are fullfilled by the same course number without the _H.
4.000 Credit hours 40.000 TO 48.000 Lecture hours Syllabus Available Levels: Credit Schedule Types: Lecture Social Science Division Social Science Department Course Attributes: Tuition, Arts and Letters, Social Science |
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