课程简介
This course aims to help learners to improve their critical thinking awareness and competence by introducing skills from basic listening and note-taking skills to building arguments with different types of reasoning, evaluating arguments, identifying fallacies and offering refutations, and other relevant skills needed for effective learning and critical thinking.
Learners are encouraged to read extensively on the issues covered in the course and those of their own interests. Hopefully, their skills in logical thinking, doing research, effective communication, and their awareness of cross-cultural communication and autonomous learning will be improved through well-scheduled learning and active engagement in forum discussions.
课程大纲
Unit 1 How to Be an Effective Learner
1.1 How to Be an Active Listener
1.2 How to Be a Critical Reader
1.3 How to Be an Effective Speaker
Unit 2 How to Ask Questions Critically
2.1 Questioning the Structure of Thinking
2.2 Questioning in Decision-Making
2.3 Questioning the Quality of Reasoning
Unit 3 How to Take Notes
3.1 Note-taking Principles & Strategies
3.2 Cornell Note-taking System
3.3 Taking Notes for Reading
Unit 4 How to Make a Definition
4.1 Sentence Definition
4.2 Extended Definition
4.3 Definition Essay
4.4 Definition in Debating
Unit 5 How to Reason by Causality
5.1 What is reasoning by causality?
5.2 Presence and Absence of Causes and Effects
5.3 Changes over Time
5.4 Correlation and Controlled Empirical Studies (1)
5.5 Correlation and Controlled Empirical Studies (2)
Unit 6 How to Communicate with Examples
6.1 Basics about Examples
6.2 Reasoning by Examples
Unit 7 How to Reason by Principle
7.1 Definition of Reasoning by Principle
7.2 Application of Reasoning by Principle
7.3 Inductive Reasoning and Deductive Reasoning
7.4 Practice of Reasoning Methods
Unit 8 How to Argue Effectively
8.1 What makes an effective argument?
8.2 How to Be More Acceptable
8.3 How to Be More Relevant
8.4 How to Be More Sufficient
Unit 9 How to Refute an Argument
9.1 Definitions of Refutation -- How to Refute Support
9.2 How to Refute the Grounds -- How to Refute the Logic
9.3 How to Refute the Grounds -- How to Refute Definitions
9.4 How to Refute Definitions -- How to Offer a Counter-argument
9.5 How to Refute an Argument -- How to Refute an Argument
Unit 10 How to Identify Fallacies
10.1 How to Identify Fallacies of Problematic Premises
10.2 How to Identify Fallacies of Irrelevant Reasons
10.3 How to Identify Fallacies of Hasty Conclusions
10.4 Practice on Identifying Fallacies
Unit 11 How to Summarize Effectively
11.1 Definition of Summary
11.2 How to Summarize in Writing
11.3 How to Summarize in Speaking
Final Examination
1.1 How to Be an Active Listener
1.2 How to Be a Critical Reader
1.3 How to Be an Effective Speaker
Unit 2 How to Ask Questions Critically
2.1 Questioning the Structure of Thinking
2.2 Questioning in Decision-Making
2.3 Questioning the Quality of Reasoning
Unit 3 How to Take Notes
3.1 Note-taking Principles & Strategies
3.2 Cornell Note-taking System
3.3 Taking Notes for Reading
Unit 4 How to Make a Definition
4.1 Sentence Definition
4.2 Extended Definition
4.3 Definition Essay
4.4 Definition in Debating
Unit 5 How to Reason by Causality
5.1 What is reasoning by causality?
5.2 Presence and Absence of Causes and Effects
5.3 Changes over Time
5.4 Correlation and Controlled Empirical Studies (1)
5.5 Correlation and Controlled Empirical Studies (2)
Unit 6 How to Communicate with Examples
6.1 Basics about Examples
6.2 Reasoning by Examples
Unit 7 How to Reason by Principle
7.1 Definition of Reasoning by Principle
7.2 Application of Reasoning by Principle
7.3 Inductive Reasoning and Deductive Reasoning
7.4 Practice of Reasoning Methods
Unit 8 How to Argue Effectively
8.1 What makes an effective argument?
8.2 How to Be More Acceptable
8.3 How to Be More Relevant
8.4 How to Be More Sufficient
Unit 9 How to Refute an Argument
9.1 Definitions of Refutation -- How to Refute Support
9.2 How to Refute the Grounds -- How to Refute the Logic
9.3 How to Refute the Grounds -- How to Refute Definitions
9.4 How to Refute Definitions -- How to Offer a Counter-argument
9.5 How to Refute an Argument -- How to Refute an Argument
Unit 10 How to Identify Fallacies
10.1 How to Identify Fallacies of Problematic Premises
10.2 How to Identify Fallacies of Irrelevant Reasons
10.3 How to Identify Fallacies of Hasty Conclusions
10.4 Practice on Identifying Fallacies
Unit 11 How to Summarize Effectively
11.1 Definition of Summary
11.2 How to Summarize in Writing
11.3 How to Summarize in Speaking
Final Examination
