Goal Area 2: Critical Thinking

Students will be able to:

• gather and analyze information of various kinds, employing formal or informal tools to represent information in ways useful for solving problems;
• weigh evidence for and against hypotheses;
• recognize, construct, and evaluate arguments;
• apply appropriate critical and evaluative principles to texts, documents, or works—one’s own or others’—in oral, visual, or written mediums.

AST	115	Life in the Universe	2
CHEM	111	Chemistry of Life Processes Part II (Organic & Biochemistry)	5
CHEM	191	Chemistry Applications	3
CHEM	201	General Chemistry I	5
CMST	101W	Interpersonal Communication	4
CSP	110	Decision Making for Career and Life	3
ECON	103W	The Economics of Women's Issues and Public Policy in the United States	3
ECON	207	Business Statistics	4
ENG	201W	Intermediate Writing	4
ENG	271W	Technical Communication	4
ENG	272W	Business Communication	4
ENG	301W	Advanced Writing	4
GERO	200	Family Dynamics of Aging	3
GERO	200W	Family Dynamics of Aging	4
GWS	230	Gender, Race, and Popular Culture	4
HLTH	212	Consumer Health	3
KSP	200	Critical Issues in Public Education	3
MATH	290	Foundations of Mathematics	4
MUS	321W	Music Literature and History I	3
MUS	322W	Music Literature and History II	3
PHIL	110	Logic and Critical Thinking	3
PHIL	112	Logic of Scientific Method	3
PHIL	311	Symbolic Logic	3
PHYS	211	Principles of Physics I	4
PHYS	221	General Physics I	4
POL	103W	Thinking About Politics	3
PSYC	103W	Psychology Today	3