OS-CRI-101 Critical Thinking

Overview

Critical thinking skills are valuable for analyzing and evaluating information at work or at home. They can help you solve problems and make decisions. You can also use critical thinking skills to form arguments that will persuade other people to your point of view and understand other people’s arguments.

By the end of this course, you will be able to

• Define critical thinking
• List qualities shared by critical thinkers
• Explain some benefits of critical thinking
• List some barriers to critical thinking
• List the steps in the critical thinking process
• Define several different intellectual values
• Explain the structure of an argument
• Define the terms premise and conclusion
• Describe the differences between deductive, inductive, and abductive reasoning
• Describe several examples of logical fallacies
• Define the term counterargument

Estimated completion time (hours): 4.1