|
WEEK |
DATE |
TITLE |
TEXT PAGES |
COMMENTS |
|
1 |
Week 1
08/27 - 09/02
|
1. Introduction: What is Critical
Thinking?
2. Critical Thinking and
Argumentative Writing, Part I |
Ch. 1
Ch. 2 |
Submit Letter of Agreement Online |
|
2 |
Week 2
09/03 - 09/09
|
3. Critical Thinking and
Argumentative Writing, Part II
4. Evaluating Informative Claims,
Part I |
Ch. 2
Ch. 3 |
|
|
3 |
Week 3
09/10 - 09/16
|
5. Evaluating Informative claims,
Part II
6. Explanations, Part I |
Ch. 3
None |
|
|
4 |
Week 4
09/17 - 09/23
|
7. Explanations, Part II
8. Non-argumentative Persuasion,
Part I |
None
Ch. 4 |
Take Quiz #1 online
(due by Friday of week 4)
Quiz #1 covers: lessons 1 - 6
|
|
5 |
Week 5
09/24 - 09/30
|
9. Non-argumentative Persuasion,
Part II
10. Pseudo-reasoning, Part I |
Ch. 4
Ch. 5 |
|
|
6 |
Week 6
10/01 - 10/07
|
11. Pseudo-reasoning, Part II
12. Pseudo-reasoning, Part III |
Ch. 5
Ch. 6 |
|
|
7 |
Week 7
10/08 - 10/14
|
13. Understanding and Evaluating
Arguments, Part I
14.
Recap - Midterm Review
(Ch. 1-7 of text) |
Ch. 7
None |
Take Quiz #2 online
(due by Friday of week 7)
Quiz #2 covers: Lessons 7 - 12
|
|
8 |
Week 8
10/15 - 10/21
|
15. Understanding and Evaluating
Arguments, Part II
16. Deductive Arguments, Part I |
Ch. 8
Ch. 8 |
Midterm Review, Lesson 14
(Windows Media Presentation)
See the for detail
Proctored exams due in Distance Learning Department no later than this
week. |
|
9 |
Week 9
10/22 - 10/28
|
17. The Square of Opposition
18. Categorical Syllogisms, Part I |
Ch. 8
Ch. 8
|
|
|
10 |
Week 10
10/29 - 11/04
|
19. Categorical Syllogisms, Part I
20. Categorical Syllogisms, Part II |
Ch. 8
Ch. 8 |
|
|
11 |
Week 11
11/05 - 11/11
|
21. Inductive Arguments
22. Inductive Arguments (continued) |
Ch. 10
Ch. 10 |
Take Quiz #3 online
(due Friday of week 11)
Quiz #3 covers: Lessons 15 - 20 |
|
12 |
Week 12
11/12 - 11/18
|
23. Causal Arguments
24. Causal Arguments (continued) |
Ch. 11
Ch. 11 |
|
|
13 |
Week 13
11/19 - 11/25
|
25. Moral Reasoning
26. Legal Reasoning |
Ch. 12
Ch. 12
|
|
|
14 |
Week 14
11/26 - 12/02
|
27. Aesthetic Reasoning
28.
Recap - Final Review (Chapters 8
and 9, and 11-13 of textbook) |
Ch. 12
Ch.
12 |
Take Quiz #4 online
(due Tuesday of week 14)
Quiz #4 covers: Lessons 21 - 27
Required Project Paper and Extra Credit Assignments due in
the Distance Learning Department on or before
Thursday of week 14
Final Review (Windows Media)
|
|
15 |
Week 15
12/03 - 12/09
|
|
|
FINAL EXAMINATION
The final examination will be online. |
|
16 |
Week 16
12/10 - 12/16
|
|
|
|
