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| Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 | ||
| Course Code: | UNI236 | ||||
| Course Name: | Critical Thinking | ||||
| Semester: | Fall | ||||
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| Language of instruction: | English | ||||
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| Does the Course Require Work Experience?: | No | ||||
| Type of course: | University Elective | ||||
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| Mode of Delivery: | E-Learning | ||||
| Course Coordinator: | Dr. Öğr. Üy. İBRAHİM EYLEM DOĞAN | ||||
| Course Lecturer(s): | Dr. Öğr. Üy. Hanife Bilgili | ||||
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| Course Objectives: | This course aims at expanding students’ capacities on how to distinguish the premise/s and the conclusion of arguments, how to analyze the logical structures of arguments, how to tell well-formed arguments from ill-formed ones. |
| Course Content: | A selective course which provides students from all departments with reasoning, critical, and analytical skills in everyday contexts as well as professional. It is a weekly 3-hour course. |
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The students who have succeeded in this course;
1) Analyze arguments of others and categorize their reasoning as weak or strong 2) Recognize common fallacies in reasoning 3) Construct good arguments with their acquired skills 4) Read texts or listen to talks and draw the internal structure of the arguments |
| Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
| 1) | Introduction: What is an argument, premises, and conclusion? | |
| 2) | What does it mean to follow? | |
| 3) | Fallacy: an introduction | |
| 4) | Formal vs Informal fallacies | |
| 5) | Formal Fallacies: Examples and applications | |
| 6) | Non-sequitur: Affirming the consequent Denying the antecedent | |
| 7) | Aristotelian Fallacies: Undistributed middle Fallacy of 4 terms Illicit Major-Illicit Minor | |
| 8) | MIDTERM | |
| 9) | Informal Fallacies: Examples and applications | |
| 10) | Ad Hominem, Straw Man, False Analogy, Red Herring | |
| 11) | Confusing what is Necessary with Sufficient | |
| 12) | Fallacy of Composition, Fallacy of Division, Slippery slope, Loaded Question | |
| 13) | False dilemma, Hasty Generalization, Sweeping Generalization, Begging the question | |
| 14) | Statistical Fallacies: Cherry picking, Data dredging, False causality | |
| 15) | Statistical Fallacies: Survivorship bias, Gambler’s fallacy, Regression to the Mean | |
| 16) | FINAL |
| Course Notes / Textbooks: | Informal Logic: A Handbook for Critical Argumentation, Douglas N. Walton |
| References: | Walter Sinnott Armstrong and Robert Fogelin, Understanding Arguments: An Introduction to Informal Logic. 8th Ed. Wadsworth Cengage Learning. |
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| Program Outcomes | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1) Understand the concepts and concepts related to the field of health at the undergraduate level, and have advanced theoretical and practical knowledge supported by textbooks, application tools and other sources of current information in the field of health. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2) Knowledge of nature, source, limits, accuracy, reliability and validity of knowledge. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 3) Uses advanced theoretical and factual knowledge acquired at the undergraduate level. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 4) Interprets, evaluates, identifies, analyzes, shares information and makes teamwork with scientifically proven data by using the advanced knowledge and skills acquired in the field of health. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 5) Uses computer programs, related technologies and educational tools in the field of health. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 6) Carries out a study independently by using its advanced knowledge in the field of health and takes responsibility as a team member in cooperation with other professional groups working in this field. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 7) Takes responsibility individually and as a team member to solve unforeseen complex problems encountered in the practices related to the field of health. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 8) Plans, manages, and monitors and evaluates the activities for the development of employees in a project. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 9) Evaluates the advanced knowledge and skills acquired in the field of health with a critical approach. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 10) Determines learning needs and learning resources, directs learning function by using resources effectively. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 11) Develops a positive attitude towards life-long learning and turns it into behavior. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 12) Informs the related persons and institutions about the health field; conveys his / her thoughts and solution suggestions in writing and orally, and receives the opinions, requests and expectations of the relevant persons and institutions. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 13) With the awareness of social responsibility, organizes and implements projects and activities in cooperation with other professional groups for the social environment in which he lives. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 14) Follow the information in the field and communicate with colleagues by using a foreign language at least at B1 General Level of European Language Portfolio. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 15) Express themselves effectively in verbal and written. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 16) Uses information and communication technologies together with computer software required by the field at least at the Advanced Level of European Computer Driving License. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 17) Monitors and evaluates the events / developments on the agenda of the society and the world in the field of health. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 18) Acts and participates in accordance with Quality Management and Processes. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 19) They cooperate with people from related disciplines and acts in accordance with social, scientific, cultural and ethical values in the stages of collecting, interpreting, applying and announcing the results related to health field. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 20) Have enough consciousness about individual and community health, environmental protection and occupational safety. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Average | 3 Highest |
| Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
| 1) | Understand the concepts and concepts related to the field of health at the undergraduate level, and have advanced theoretical and practical knowledge supported by textbooks, application tools and other sources of current information in the field of health. | |
| 2) | Knowledge of nature, source, limits, accuracy, reliability and validity of knowledge. | |
| 3) | Uses advanced theoretical and factual knowledge acquired at the undergraduate level. | |
| 4) | Interprets, evaluates, identifies, analyzes, shares information and makes teamwork with scientifically proven data by using the advanced knowledge and skills acquired in the field of health. | |
| 5) | Uses computer programs, related technologies and educational tools in the field of health. | |
| 6) | Carries out a study independently by using its advanced knowledge in the field of health and takes responsibility as a team member in cooperation with other professional groups working in this field. | |
| 7) | Takes responsibility individually and as a team member to solve unforeseen complex problems encountered in the practices related to the field of health. | |
| 8) | Plans, manages, and monitors and evaluates the activities for the development of employees in a project. | |
| 9) | Evaluates the advanced knowledge and skills acquired in the field of health with a critical approach. | |
| 10) | Determines learning needs and learning resources, directs learning function by using resources effectively. | |
| 11) | Develops a positive attitude towards life-long learning and turns it into behavior. | |
| 12) | Informs the related persons and institutions about the health field; conveys his / her thoughts and solution suggestions in writing and orally, and receives the opinions, requests and expectations of the relevant persons and institutions. | |
| 13) | With the awareness of social responsibility, organizes and implements projects and activities in cooperation with other professional groups for the social environment in which he lives. | |
| 14) | Follow the information in the field and communicate with colleagues by using a foreign language at least at B1 General Level of European Language Portfolio. | |
| 15) | Express themselves effectively in verbal and written. | |
| 16) | Uses information and communication technologies together with computer software required by the field at least at the Advanced Level of European Computer Driving License. | |
| 17) | Monitors and evaluates the events / developments on the agenda of the society and the world in the field of health. | |
| 18) | Acts and participates in accordance with Quality Management and Processes. | |
| 19) | They cooperate with people from related disciplines and acts in accordance with social, scientific, cultural and ethical values in the stages of collecting, interpreting, applying and announcing the results related to health field. | |
| 20) | Have enough consciousness about individual and community health, environmental protection and occupational safety. |
| Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
| Midterms | 1 | % 40 |
| Final | 1 | % 60 |
| total | % 100 | |
| PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 40 | |
| PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 60 | |
| total | % 100 | |
| Activities | Number of Activities | Preparation for the Activity | Spent for the Activity Itself | Completing the Activity Requirements | Workload | ||
| Course Hours | 14 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 98 | ||
| Midterms | 1 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 12 | ||
| Final | 1 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 17 | ||
| Total Workload | 127 | ||||||