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Undergraduate Record 2007-2008 
    
Undergraduate Record 2007-2008 [ARCHIVED RECORD]

ISLS 302 - Critical Thinking: Why Do We Believe the Things We Do?


This course focuses on a central question: “Why do we believe the things we do?” This question will drive all of the individual writing and reading assignments. In this context students consider, from a multi-disciplinary perspective, topics such as: mental models, hidden assumptions and the place of implicit beliefs in reasoning; “thin slicing” and the role of the “adaptive unconscious” in decision making; propaganda, public relations and the role of the media in belief formation; the identification and evaluation of arguments and the difference between persuasive and cogent reasoning.  (Y)

Credits: 3