Nummer10201S1Zielsetzung / 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 AdmissionLevel B2 - C1 in EnglishBibliographie/Literatur / Bibliography / Literature / ReferencesCottrell, S. 2005. Critical Thinking Skills. Palgrave Macmillan (compulsory)Lehr- und Lernmethoden / MethodsLecture
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 / CourseAcademic Writing (semester 1)
Statistics and Empirical Methods
Research Paper (semester 4)
Business Project paper (sem 5 and 6)
Bachelor thesis
