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      Critical Approach

      Critical Approach

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      10201S1
      Zielsetzung / Purpose
      - Students learn to adopt a critical approach in their intake and analysis of information and transfer this knowledge to their own work. - Students learn what the criteria and standards are of a valid, logical argument in order to apply this to their own production (papers, presentations, assignments). - Students know how to evaluate argumentation (fallacies). - Students can produce and construct their own argumentation based on quality data/sources. - Students practice evaluating arguments applying the criteria and standards taught. - Students have grasped basics of where and how to search for quality information (basic search techniques, basic note-taking, topic clustering, citation).
      Inhalt / Content
      - Critical thought - Argumentation - Establishing issues, reasons and conclusion - Fallacies - Quality criteria - Searching for quality information, developing an argument - Debate based on research
      Besondere Eintrittsvoraussetzungen / Special Conditions of Admission
      Level B2 - C1 in English
      Bibliographie/Literatur / Bibliography / Literature / References
      Cottrell, S. 2005. Critical Thinking Skills. Palgrave Macmillan (compulsory)
      Lehr- und Lernmethoden / Methods
      Lecture Class discussion Self-study and group task: qualitative research Group Debate
      Leistungsbewertung/Testanforderung(en) / Assessment
      (in course) Written report (summary, evaluation) based upon one of the debates (80%), participation in debate by speaking or researching (20%)
      Anschlussmodule/-kurse / Next Module / Course
      Academic Writing (semester 1) Statistics and Empirical Methods Research Paper (semester 4) Business Project paper (sem 5 and 6) Bachelor thesis

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