Course
Syllabus 2005 March Term
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Creative
& Critical Thinking Hum400 Pre-Req: Eng121 3 1/2 Credits 36
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Steve Boddeker Friday: calpolysteveb@aol.com Friday: |
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This course is designed to acquaint students with the elements and practice of creative and critical thinking. Topics include inductive vs. deductive reasoning, perception, problem solving, argument construction and analysis. Upon completion of this course, students should be able to clarify and evaluate their thinking, create arguments based on sound principles and concepts, present their ideas more effectively, and effectively weigh arguments from others. |
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Text(s) |
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Thinking
Critically, 7th Edition.
John Chaffee. Houghton Mifflin
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Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to: 1.
Identify those influences that have an effect on the way
(s)he thinks about issues and problems, 2. Contrast the differences between believing and knowing, 3. Explain the differences between thinking and feeling, 4. Identify the characteristics of critical thinkers as compared to those that dont think critically, 5. Recognize and correct vague and coercive language, propaganda, and fallacies, 6. Employ problem solving strategies, 7. Recognize effective vs. ineffective problem-solving attitudes, and initiate effective methods of resolution 8. Use solution-generating techniques to overcome mental blocks, 9. Recognize and challenge concepts, 10. Adapt and form new concepts, 11. Understand the implications of relevance, perception, reactions, and procedure 12. Construct persuasive arguments, 13. Judge and improve own thinking and writing processes, 14. Employ decision-making strategies and evaluation techniques, 15. Evaluate the various kinds of evidence that can be acquired, with respect to accuracy/bias, 16. Evaluate the sufficiency of presented evidence |
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Instructional |
Lecture, class discussion, individual/group activities, projects, oral presentations. |
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Evaluation |
Activities / Assignments 30 % (15 min to 2 hr per
week) In Class Activities 30
% (3 to 10 per 4
hr session) Research Project Report 20 % Experiment Presentation 20 % |
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Westwood Grading System |
Grade |
Grade Points |
Numerical Equivalent |
Grade |
Grade Points |
Numerical Equivalent |
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A A- B+ B B- |
4.0 3.7 3.3 3.0 2.7 |
93-100 90-92 87-89 83-86 80-82 |
C+ C C- D+ D F |
2.3 2.0 1.7 1.3 1.0 0.0 |
77-79 73-76 70-72 67-69 60-66 59 & below |
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Westwood
Attendance
And
Punctuality
Policy 3/02 |
A
student who is more than 10 minutes late to class is considered to be tardy
to that class. The amount of time the
student is late is recorded on the class attendance roster. Absenteeism and accumulated tardiness may
result in grade point reduction, possible failure of a course, or
dismissal. In the event of an absence
or tardy attendance, all missed work must be made up. Students who are habitually absent from any
class will be advised by the Student Services Department and Program
Director, and may be placed on attendance probation. - Students
who are absent more than two consecutive calendar weeks (Monday through
Sunday) in which at least one day of instruction was scheduled will be
dropped from the course. - Students
who miss 25% of the scheduled hours of a class will be subject to withdrawal
from the class. The
Program Director, Director of Education or other designated officials can
initiate dropping a student from class. These changes in student status will be
documented on a Student Activity Report (SAR). |
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Class |
Assigned work
and tests: Homework: 1. Read assigned text before class. 2. Complete Assigned Materials and turn in during class when due. Activities: All students will participate in the activities during class. Activities include materials from books, activities suggested by students, extra activities by instructor, etc. Activity Presentation: (optional for bonus) Every student may lead one 5 to 10 minutes class lecture with a maximum of 1 presentation per 50 minutes of class lecture. Presentation style is completely student chosen (i.e. Power Point, hand outs, overheads, etc.) Final Presentation: Every student will present their chosen research topic on the last night of class. Presentation must include the following sections: purpose of choosing particular topic, highlights of literature review, surprising facts during research, encountered roadblocks and how overcome, etc. Materials: Missed
Assignments: Late Work: All Late work is DUE the class period following the absence. Weekly schedule includes all assignments. |
HUM400 Creative
and Critical Thinking Mar 2005
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http://www.csupomona.edu/~skboddeker/sylla/hum400.htm Week 1: March 18 Ch
1: Thinking p.
1 49
Living and Examined Life Thinking
Activity 1.1 Analyzing a Goal that you Achieved Working Toward Goals Thinking
Activity 1.2 Analyzing an Important Future Goal Thinking
Passage Questions for Analysis Making Decisions Thinking Activity 1.3 Analyzing a
Previous Decision Organized Approach to Making
Decisions Thinking Activity 1.4 Analyzing a Future Decision Deciding on a Career Thinking Activity 1.5 Thinking About Your Career Plans Thinking Activity 1.6 Describing Your Dream Job Thinking
Activity 1.7 Identifying Your Interests Thinking
Activity 1.8 Identifying Your Abilities Analyzing Issues Thinking Activity 1.9 Analyzing Your Verdict Final Thoughts Chapter Review Questions for Analysis Ch
2: Thinking Critically p. 50
101
Intro Thinking Activity 2.1 Who is a Critical Thinker? Thinking Actively Thinking Activity 2.2 Influences on Our Thinking Carefully
Exploring Situations w/Questions Thinking Activity 2.3 Analyzing a Complex Issue Thinking
Independently Thinking Activity 2.4 Evaluating Your
Beliefs Viewing
Situations w/Different Perspectives Thinking Activity 2.5 Analyzing a Belief from Different
Perspectives Thinking Activity 2.6 Writing from Interactive Perspectives Supporting
Diverse Perspectives w/Reason Thinking Activity 2.7 Analyzing Different Sides of an Issue Thinking
Activity 2.8 Analyzing Different Perspectives Discussing
Ideas in an Organized Way Thinking
Activity 2.9 Creating a Dialog Becoming
a Critical Thinker Creating
a Thinking World Thinking Passages Questions for Analysis Chapter
Review Questions for Analysis |
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Week 2: March 25 Ch
3: Solving Problems p. 102 145 Thinking Critically about Problems Intro
to Solving Problems Thinking Activity 3.1 Analyzing a Problem You Solved Solving
Complex Problems Thinking Activity 3.2 Analyzing an Unsolved Problem Thinking Activity 3.3 Analyzing College Problems Solving
Non-Personal Problems Thinking
Activity 3.4 Analyzing Social Problems Two
Ά summary: A Psychologists View of Prejudice/Stereotypes (141-145) Ch
4: Perceiving p. 146 192 Actively
Selecting, Organizing, Interpret Thinking Activity 4.1 Analyzing Perceptions Thinking Activity 4.2 Analyzing Perceptions What
Factors Shape Perceptions? Thinking Activity 4.3 Thinking Critically About My Perceiving
Lenses Thinking
Activity 4.4 Analyzing Varied Accounts of Assassination Malcolm X Thinking
Activity 4.5 Analyzing Varied Accounts of the 2001 WTC Attacks Thinking
Critically About Perceptions Thinking
Activity 4.6 Describing a Shaping Experience Thinking
Activity 4.7 Analyzing Stereotypes Thinking Passages Platos Allegory of the Cave Thinking Passages Perceptions of Patriotism |
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Week 3: April 1 Ch
5: Believing and Knowing p.
193 - 248
Believing and
Perceiving Thinking
Activity 5.1 Analyzing a False Perception Believing and
Knowing Thinking Activity 5.2 Evaluating the Accuracy of Beliefs Thinking Passage Is the Earth Round or Flat? Knowledge and
Truth Thinking
Activity 5.3 What Stage of Knowing Am I In? Week 3 Continued to Next Page Thinking
Critically About Your Beliefs Thinking Activity 5.4 Surveying Your Beliefs Thinking
Activity 5.5 Evaluating My Beliefs Perspective-Taking
to Achieve Knowledge Thinking Activity 5.6 Analyzing Accounts of Confrontation at Thinking Activity 5.7 Analyzing Different Accounts of a Current
Event Beliefs Based
on Direct Experience Thinking Activity 5.8 Analyzing a Changed Belief Thinking Passage Why I Quit the Klan Beliefs Based
on Indirect Experience Thinking Activity 5.9 Evaluating Different Perspectives Final Thoughts Thinking Activity 5.10 Analyzing Accounts of Dropping Atom Bomb
on Ch
6: Language and Thought p.
249 - 309
The Evolution
of Language The Symbolic
Nature of Language Thinking Activity 6.1 The Language of War Thinking
Activity 6.2 Understanding Nonsense Words Thinking
Activity 6.3 The Language of Cloning Using Language
Effectively Thinking Passage Blue Highways Thinking
Activity 6.4 Communicating and Experience |
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Week 4: April 8 Ch
6: Language and Thought p.
249 - 309
Using Language
to Clarify Thinking Thinking Activity 6.5 Reviewing a Movie Thinking Passage An Account of Avianca Flight 52 Using Language
in Social Contexts Thinking Activity 6.6 Thinking About Slang Thinking
Activity 6.7 Analyzing Language Uses Using Language
to Influence Thinking Activity 6.8 Analyzing Euphemisms Thinking Activity 6.9 Analyzing Emotive Language Thinking Passages Persuading with Political Speeches Final Thoughts Thinking Passage Gender Differences in Language Ch
7: Forming and Applying Concepts p.
310 - 355
What Are
Concepts? Thinking
Activity 7.1 Forming New Concepts Through Experience The Structure
of Concepts Thinking Activity 7.2 Diagramming the Structure of Concepts Forming
Concepts Thinking Activity 7.3 Forming New Concepts Through
Generalizing/Interpreting Applying
Concepts Thinking Passages Femininity and Masculinity Defining
Concepts Thinking Activity 7.4 Analyzing the Concept of Responsibility Thinking Passage Identify Yourself: Whos American? Relating
Concepts with Mind Maps Thinking Activity 7.5 Using Mind Maps to Organize Your Thinking Final Thoughts Thinking Passage What is Religion |
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Week 5: April 15 Ch
8: Relating and Organizing p.
356 - 403
Chronological and Process Relationships Thinking Passage Back, but Not Home Thinking Activity 8.1 Creating a Narrative Description Thinking Activity 8.2 Analyzing Process Relationships Thinking Activity 8.3 Creating a Process Description Comparative
and Analogical Relationships Thinking Activity 8.4 Analyzing Comparative Relationships Thinking Activity 8.5 Analyzing Analogical Relationships Thinking Activity 8.6 Creating Analogies to Capture Life Causal
Relationships Thinking Activity 8.7 Creating a Causal Chain Thinking Activity 8.8 Creating a Scenario of Contributory Causes Visual Thinking The Birds & the Bees, the Flowers & the
Trees Thinking Activity 8.9 Analyzing Causal Relationships Thinking
Critically About Human Relationships Thinkers
Guide to Healthy Relationships Thinking Activity 8.10 Improving Your Relationships Final Thoughts Thinking Passages Mate Selection and Marriage Ch
9: Reporting, Inferring, and Judging p.
404 - 447
Intro Thinking Activity 9.1 Identifying Reports, Inferences, & Judgments Reporting Factual Information Thinking Activity 9.2 Evaluating Factual Information Looking Critically Real and Manipulated Images in Film Thinking
Passage The End of My Childhood Problem Statement (or Hypothesis) Due Today |
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Week 6: April 22 Ch
9: Reporting, Inferring, and Judging p.
404 - 447
Inferring Thinking Activity 9.3 Analyzing an Incorrect Inference Judging Thinking Activity 9.4 Analyzing Judgments Thinking
Activity 9.5 Analyzing Moral Dilemmas Visual
Thinking What Homeless Person Thinking
Activity 9.6 Nurturing Your Moral Growth Final Thoughts Thinking Passage Evolution as Fact & Theory Ch
10: Constructing Arguments p.
448 - 502
Recognizing
Arguments Thinking Activity 10.1 Identifying Arguments with Cue Words Thinking Passages Legalizing Drugs Evaluating Arguments Thinking
Activity 10.2 Evaluating the Truth of Reasons Understanding
Deductive Arguments Thinking Activity 10.3 Evaluating Arguments Constructing
Extended Arguments Thinking Activity 10.4 Composing an Extended Argument Final Thoughts Thinking Passages Human Cloning Literature
Review Due Today (Please include rough draft of Reference Page) |
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Week 7: April 29 Ch
11: Reasoning Critically p.
503 - 569
Inductive Reasoning Empirical
Generalization Thinking Activity 11.1 Evaluating Inductive Arguments Fallacies of
False Generalization Thinking Activity 11.2 Designing a Poll Thinking Passage Detecting Fallacies of False Generalization Causal
Reasoning Thinking Activity 11.3 Applying the Scientific Method Thinking Activity 11.4 Evaluating Experimental Results Thinking Activity 11.5 Designing a Scientific Experiment Thinking Passages Researching Cures and Prevention Thinking Passage Treating Breast Cancer Causal
Fallacies Visual Thinking Slipping and Sliding Fallacies of
Relevance Thinking Activity 11.6 Identifying Fallacies Critical
Thinkers Guide to Reasoning Thinking Activity 11.7 Applying the Guide to Reasoning Thinking Passage Critical Thinking and Obedience to Authority Methodology Due Today (include how collect data AND
analyze data) |
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Week 8: May 6 Ch 12: Thinking Critically,
Living Creatively p.
570 607 Living
Creatively Thinking Activity 12.1 Describe Your Current and Future Self Visual Thinking Expect the Unexpected Heraclitus Thinking Activity 12.2 Describing a Creative Area Thinking Activity 12.3 Identifying Creative Blocks Thinking Activity 12.4 Combating the Voice of Criticism Thinking Activity 12.5 Becoming More Creative Living a Life Philosophy Thinking Passage Original Spin Research project Peer Review (Problem
Statement, Lit Review, Methods, Data, Initial Results) |
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Week 9: May 13 Research Project Presentation (& Submit
Final Research Paper) |
My own notes: Preferably
not given to students, the weekly schedule includes these sections
It
may be preferable to push up the schedule for problem statement, etc
Problem statement included in intro 10/10
Lit Review 10/10
Reference Page (Work Cited) w/citations in Lit
Review 20/20
Methodology: How to collect data 10/10
Methodology: How to analyze data 10/10
Data Section (explanations w/tables, graphs,
charts, etc) 30/30
Results (must
also include paragraphs) 10/10