BASICS OF CRITICAL THINKING

This course is intended to teach and impart on students the skills of thinking critically. It will assist students to explore different sources and kinds of knowledge, distinguishing between statements or assertions of perception opinion, fact and value judgements. The course thereafter, lead students into the thinking process, distinguishing between inductive and deductive reasoning to aid students grasp the validity and invalidity of both the formal and material content of argumentation. In this course, students will be aided to effectively engage in generating accurate or informed conclusions using different levels of academic competence including factual recall, analysis, interpretation, evaluation and applications relating to the phenomena they experience in a bid to prepare them for their university studies.