State University, Sacramento
Area A-3 Critical
- Students study about and consciously develop skills in critical
- Knowledge through logical analysis and argument construction is
pursued throughout the course.
- Instruction develops understanding
of logical relationships between premises and conclusions.
develops ability to recognize more common formal and informal fallacies.
reflects emphasis on logical processes.
- Develops basic skills,
applicable to a variety of academic subjects and to the fulfillment
of such roles as citizen, consumer, leader and moral agent.
in evaluating the validity, strength and relevance of arguments.
sense of logical structure of both inductive and deductive
- Awareness of uses and abuses of argument language, including
connotation, ambiguity and definition.
- Skill in handling a
variety of arguments in variety of contexts.
- Ability to argue
fairly and to handle bias, emotion, and propaganda.
- Locate the argument in a passage
- Detect errors of reasoning
and explain how the reasoning is in error.
- Evaluate evidence and make appropriate inferences from that evidence.
and defend an argument in support of or in opposition to a proposition