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Critical Thinking And Creative Problem Solving –
hum114
(3 credits)
This course focuses on developing the critical and creative thinking skills necessary to analyze and solve problems, make decisions, implement strategies, and formulate well supported points of view on key academic, social, and professional issues. The principles of creative thinking are essential to critical thinking skills. Students will learn how to evaluate their ideas and how to communicate their points of view persuasively.
This undergraduate-level course is 5
weeks.
To enroll, speak with an Enrollment Advisor.
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Communicating Your Ideas
- Recognize approaches to achieve effective writing and speaking.
- Explain techniques to present ideas and persuade others effectively.
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Argument Analysis and Evaluation
- Identify fallacies used in written, oral, and visual arguments.
- Summarize the steps to evaluate arguments.
- Identify errors in reasoning.
- Explain how assumptions interfere with critical thinking.
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The Role of Questioning and Criticism
- Apply strategies to foster criticism in problem solving.
- Explain types of questions that lead to critical thinking.
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Problem Solving Processes
- Compare the steps in refining solutions to a problem and resolutions of issues.
- Identify sources of information when investigating a problem or issue.
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Problem Identification
- Describe how to express problems and issues.
- Distinguish problems from issues.
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Creative Thinking
- Explain key methods for producing ideas.
- Evaluate strategies to promote creative thinking and curiosity.
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Critical Reading, Listening, and Viewing
- Use techniques to detect bias and propaganda.
- Compare strategies for critical reading, listening, and viewing.
- Clarify the importance of making distinctions in critical evaluation.
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Developing and Establishing a Foundation for Thinking
- Describe critical thinking.
- Identify strategies to develop and improve your thinking.
- Identify your stage of development in critical thinking.
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The Perception Process and Evaluating Thinking
- Explain how thought processes are changed or manipulated by perception.
- Compare methods for overcoming perceptual blocks that hinder thinking.
- Identify perceptual blocks that hinder thinking.
- The University of Phoenix reserves the right to modify courses.
- While widely available, not all programs are available in all locations or in both online and on-campus formats. Please check with a University Enrollment Advisor.
- Transferability of credit is at the discretion of the receiving institution. It is the student’s responsibility to confirm whether or not credits earned at University of Phoenix will be accepted by another institution of the student’s choice.
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