2 Student Learning Outcomes
STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES
The numbered lines indicated the core SLOs for the General Education Fundamental Literacy of Critical Thinking; the bullet points underneath each identify the specific SLOs of this class, through which the more general ones will be learned.
Students will learn…
- How to identify reasons (premises) that support a claim (conclusion)
- The difference between issues, questions, and claims
- The difference between facts and values and the kinds of claims (non-evaluative and evaluative) that we use to express our beliefs about each
- How to construct arguments for and against a claim
- How arguments for evaluative claims work in distinction from those for non-evaluative claims
- The difference between deductive and inductive arguments
- How to use widely accepted standards for evaluating the quality of evidence and reasoning
- What makes for a logically valid argument
- Basic fallacies (errors in reasoning) we are prone to
Additional SLOs for this specific class: students will learn…
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- How values are typically at work in making ethical judgments and decisions
- How the critical thinking and ethical reasoning skills worked on in this class can be used elsewhere
