PRST 311 - Critical Thinking, Use of Rese

Institution:

College of Charleston

Subject:

Professional Studies

Description:

This course examines the key concepts, models, attitudes and practices that support critical thinking and informed decision making in the 21st century. A rapidly changing, complex and information rich environment has increased the challenge of identifying valid information, conducting logical and sufficiently comprehensive analysis, and making accurate predictions. Increasingly politicized and polarized mass media, the rise in narrow focus advocacy and extremism, and concerns about cognitive bias have generated an expanding set of competing arguments and approaches to determining fact. This course examines various approaches and develops competencies regarding the identification of valid information, logical analysis and argument, and informed decision making.

Credits:

3.00

Credit Hours:

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.cofc.edu

Phone Number:

(843) 953-5500

Regional Accreditation:

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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