Overview

Critical thinking is described as your best thinking when making important decisions or understanding complex ideas. When you think critically, you become aware of the many distractions and biases that might steer your decisions one way or another. This course series will introduce you to innovative skills and thinking structures to identify assumptions, question arguments, distinguish facts from opinion, and build a toolkit to reliably apply critical thinking skills to different situations.

Learning Objectives

• Recognize assumptions which can cloud your thinking;
• Learn to distinguish facts from opinions;
• Understand why arguments happen;
• Build a toolkit to reliably apply critical thinking skills to different situations;

Course Modules

• Making the Case for Critical Thinking
• Being an Agile Critical Thinker
• Recognizing the Power of Assumptions
• Asking Questions is the Foundation of Critical Thinking
• Seeking Multiple Perspectives
• Evaluating Arguments
• Using Evidence Wisely
• Selecting the Best Thinking Tools
• Overcoming Indecision
• Drawing Conclusions