CRCRTH601 Critical Thinking
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Course Description
This course explores issues about the nature and techniques of critical thought, viewed as a way to establish a reliable basis for our claims, beliefs, and attitudes about the world. We explore multiple perspectives, placing established facts, theories, and practices in tension with alternatives to see how things could be otherwise. Views about observation and interpretation, reasoning and inference, valuing and judging, and the production of knowledge in its social context are considered. Special attention is given to translating what is learned into strategies, materials, and interventions for use in students’ own educational and professional settings.
Course Video
Video IntroductionClosed Captioned
Academic Information
Credits: 3
Schedule & Fee
Dates: Sep 13 - Dec 10
Class #: 15294
Course Fee: $1335
Lab Fee: $0
Total Course Fee: $1335
Instructor
Robert Schoenberg
Bobsch3@gmail.com | Bio
Book Information
Required:
  1. Developing Minds, Edited by Arthur L. Costa. 3rd Edition. 2001. Publisher: ASCD (Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development).
    The book can be ordered directly from the publisher, 1-800-933-2723; http://www.ascd.org (A limited number of books are at the campus bookstore at UMASS, Boston if you happen to be in the area).
  2. The text will be supplemented by additional articles on the web. Specific articles are listed in the Expanded Course Outline.

Recommended:
  1. Critical Thinking in Business by Bob Schoenberg. 2007 Publisher: Science & Humanities Press. Website: www.criticalthinkinginbusiness.com
Wimba Requirement
UMB online courses use Wimba classroom (a live discussion tool) at least twice during the semester. Information about Horizon Wimba can be found at www.dlvpc.umb.edu/wimbasupport.htm. Your course instructor will inform you about dates and times of course meetings in Wimba Classroom.