PUBLISHED 2018-2019 Credit Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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PHIL 241 - Critical Thinking
Course Description
The purpose of this course is to introduce you to fundamental skills in critical thinking. You will develop skills in identifying fallacies, evaluating formal arguments, and diagnosing the appropriate form of argumentation in a variety of areas, including science and morality. Your skills in argumentation will be honed both in evaluating others’ arguments and in making your own.
3 credits
Additional Requisite Information:
CONTINUING EDUCATION CALENDAR
For more information about this course, please call (403) 284-8923 or email as.coned.info@sait.ca. Click Register Now at the bottom of the screen to sign up.
NETWORK LEARNING CALENDAR
Click Register Now at the bottom of the screen to sign up. For more information on Distance Education Learning call toll free at 1-888-284-7051 or (403) 284-8537 or email distance.education@sait.ca
Required Textbook: MacDonald, Chris and Vaughn, Lewis (2016). The power of critical thinking (4th Cdn. ed.). Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press
Purchasing the Textbook: Go to http://www.bookstore.sait.ca/buy_main.asp, select Campus Term (Distance Learning) and click GO, select Distance Online, click on your course, and add the book to your cart.
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