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Essential Skill 2: Critical Thinking
Essential Skill 2: Critical Thinking
Graduates will think critically by evaluating assumptions and assessing information to make informed conclusions. They will also think creatively by combining ideas in original ways or developing new ways of addressing issues.
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COMM 301: Public Speaking (DeMercurio)
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This course prepares students to speak in a variety of rhetorical situations: academic, professional, social, and political. Students will demonstrate effective verbal and non-verbal delivery, ethical research methodology, analytical thinking and listening skills, organization and outlining skills, and appropriate presentation skills.
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Math 15E - Concurrent Support for Quantitative Reasoning
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Paired with MATH 150: This support course is designed to develop the mathematical knowledge and study skills necessary for successful completion of Math 150: Quantitative Reasoning in Today’s World. Topics from intermediate algebra and geometry are covered to build a foundation for college-level quantitative reasoning. Strategic reading, critical thinking and problem solving are incorporated to build the strategies needed to solve contextualized problems. Topics in the area of study skills and metacognition are also included to support students in a college level math course.
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Science Stories You Can Count On: 51 Case Studies With Quantitative Reasoning in Biology
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Using real stories with quantitative reasoning skills enmeshed in the story line is a powerful and logical way to teach biology and show its relevance to the lives of future citizens, regardless of whether they are science specialists or laypeople.” —from the introduction to Science Stories You Can Count On This book can make you a marvel of classroom multitasking. First, it helps you achieve a serious goal: to blend 12 areas of general biology with quantitative reasoning in ways that will make your students better at evaluating product claims and news reports.
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College Success: Chapter 7 - Thinking
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In this chapter, you’ll be introduced to different ways of thinking about the way you think.
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https://openstax.org/books/college-success/pages/7-introduction
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Learning Framework: Effective Strategies for Student Success - Chapter 7
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In this chapter, students will:
Define critical thinking
Describe the role that logic plays in critical thinking
Describe how critical thinking skills can be used to evaluate information
Perform fact-checking in the form of lateral reading to evaluate sources of information
Identify strategies for developing yourself as a critical thinker
Explore key elements and stages in the creative process
Apply specific skills for stimulating creative perspectives and innovative options
Integrate critical and creative thinking in the process of problem-solving
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https://oercommons.org/courseware/lesson/25864/overview
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CC BY-NC-SA
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"The Commons: Tools for Reading, Writing, and Rhetoric",Scientific Inquiry in Social Work (DeCarlo)
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This text gives instructors and students of college writing courses a single source for information on metacognitive critical reading, rhetorical awareness, and MLA formatting basics as well as interesting and relevant reading and viewing content.
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https://encompass.eku.edu/ekuopen/4/
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CC BY-NC-SA
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Scientific Inquiry in Social Work (DeCarlo)
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Students will learn how to discover a researchable topic that is interesting to them, examine scholarly literature, formulate a proper research question, design a quantitative or qualitative study to answer their question, carry out the design, interpret quantitative or qualitative results, and disseminate their findings to a variety of audiences.
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