HONR 105 - Critical Methods of Inquiry (3 credits)

(Prereq: Students must be enrolled in the University Honors Program) This course introduces students to models and methodologies of critical thinking, and prepares them to utilize critical thinking techniques to evaluate formal and informal claims and arguments. Special attention is paid to cognitive biases, informal logical fallacies, and the disciplinary assumptions that undergird argumentative claims from a variety of fields. F, S.