About This Course
Bundle Description
Critical thinking skills are essential for analyzing and evaluating information in both professional and personal settings. They enable effective problem-solving, decision-making, and the ability to construct persuasive arguments while also understanding others’ viewpoints. This bundle includes three courses focused on building these valuable skills.
Bundle Objectives
- Define critical thinking
- List qualities shared by critical thinkers
- Explain some benefits of critical thinking
- List some barriers to critical thinking
- List the steps in the critical thinking process
- Define several different intellectual values
- Explain the structure of an argument
- Define the terms premise and conclusion
- Describe the differences between deductive, inductive, and abductive reasoning
- Describe several examples of logical fallacies
- Define the term counter argument
Target Audience
- New industry professionals, technologists, college students, and high school students
Curriculum
4h
What is Critical Thinking
Course Description
Critical thinking is one of several approaches to analyzing information, solving problems, and making decisions. This course will introduce you to critical thinking skills and explore how you can apply them.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
Course Duration
72 minutes
Target Audience
Managers, supervisors, engineers, technicians, or any individual working directly with this equipment or product
Requisite Knowledge
None
Critical thinking is one of several approaches to analyzing information, solving problems, and making decisions. This course will introduce you to critical thinking skills and explore how you can apply them.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Define critical thinking
- Describe how critical thinking relates to intuitive thinking
- Describe some examples of critical thinking skills
- List qualities shared by critical thinkers
- List intellectual values embraced by critical thinkers
- Explain some benefits of critical thinking
- List some barriers to critical thinking
Course Duration
72 minutes
Target Audience
Managers, supervisors, engineers, technicians, or any individual working directly with this equipment or product
Requisite Knowledge
None
The CriticalThinking Process
Course Description
It's natural for people to make quick judgments and rapid decisions, but these quick choices aren't always the best. The critical thinking process encourages you to pause, clearly define the problem or question at hand, and consider different perspectives. Adopting a systematic approach can lead to more informed decisions.
By the end of this course, you will be equipped to:
Course Duration
90 minutes
Target Audience
Managers, supervisors, engineers, technicians, or any individual working directly with this equipment or product
Requisite Knowledge
None
It's natural for people to make quick judgments and rapid decisions, but these quick choices aren't always the best. The critical thinking process encourages you to pause, clearly define the problem or question at hand, and consider different perspectives. Adopting a systematic approach can lead to more informed decisions.
By the end of this course, you will be equipped to:
- List the steps in the critical thinking process
- Describe the qualities of good questions
- Define several different intellectual values
- List examples of research methods used to gather evidence
- Define the terms qualitative evidence and quantitative evidence
- Define the terms primary source and secondary source
- Describe methods for evaluating evidence
- Explain the difference between facts and opinions
- Define the terms assumption and inference
- Explain the importance of considering other points of view
- Describe what happens after you form a conclusion
Course Duration
90 minutes
Target Audience
Managers, supervisors, engineers, technicians, or any individual working directly with this equipment or product
Requisite Knowledge
None
Developing and Evaluating Arguments
Course Description
Understanding how arguments are constructed makes it easier to analyze someone else's point of view and determine whether you agree with it. This knowledge also enables you to build your own arguments more effectively and become more persuasive.
By the end of this course, you will be capable of:
Course Duration
54 minutes
Target Audience
Managers, supervisors, engineers, technicians, or any individual working directly with this equipment or product
Requisite Knowledge
None
Understanding how arguments are constructed makes it easier to analyze someone else's point of view and determine whether you agree with it. This knowledge also enables you to build your own arguments more effectively and become more persuasive.
By the end of this course, you will be capable of:
- Explain the structure of an argument
- Define the terms premise and conclusion
- Define signal words
- Identify the premises and conclusion in an argument
- List signal words for premises and conclusions
- Describe the differences between deductive, inductive, and abductive reasoning
- Explain how the terms valid and sound relate to deductive arguments
- Explain how the terms strong and cogent relate to inductive arguments
- Define the term logical fallacy
- Describe several examples of logical fallacies
- Define the term counterargument
Course Duration
54 minutes
Target Audience
Managers, supervisors, engineers, technicians, or any individual working directly with this equipment or product
Requisite Knowledge
None
Your Instructors
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