Media, Information and Technoculture 1025F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Michael Shermer, Elizabeth Loftus, Video Blog
11 Dec 2017
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The world is filled with claims, ideas and beliefs. We are surrounded by people, organizations and institutions making claims about everything from the food we should eat, the medicines we should take, the nature of the economy and environment and many, many other things. The difficult task is figuring out which is which, as lewis vaughn says in your textbook, the. Critical thinking gives us a skill set and a process to help us decide what is worth believing. Crit- ical thinking is not a set of beliefs or facts, rather, it is a way of thinking about issues and prob- lems. This course will offer students an introduction to critical thinking which covers argument, rea- soning, common fallacies, etc. The course will also offer students an introduction to the process of critically analyzing a text and writing about it. In the process, students will learn how identify and unpack arguments in mainstream and scholarly texts.
