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Bachelor	TR-NQF-HE: Level 6	QF-EHEA: First Cycle	EQF-LLL: Level 6

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code:

UNI236

Course Name:

Critical Thinking

Semester:

Fall

Course Credits:

ECTS

Language of instruction:

English

Course Condition:

Does the Course Require Work Experience?:

Type of course:

University Elective

Course Level:

Bachelor

TR-NQF-HE:6. Master`s Degree

QF-EHEA:First Cycle

EQF-LLL:6. Master`s Degree

Mode of Delivery:

E-Learning

Course Coordinator:

Dr. Öğr. Üy. İBRAHİM EYLEM DOĞAN

Course Lecturer(s):

Dr. Öğr. Üy. Hanife Bilgili

Course Assistants:

Course Objective and Content

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.

Learning Outcomes

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

Course Flow Plan

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

Sources

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.

Course - Program Learning Outcome Relationship

Course Learning Outcomes	1	2	3	4
Program Outcomes
1) Uses academic English language skills effectively.
2) Knows the historical and cultural foundations of English Language and its developmental periods in detail.
3) Knows the periods of English Literature in detail with its cultural and historical features.
4) Evaluates the basic literary genres such as fiction (novel, story), theater and poetry according to their characteristics.
5) Can apply various analytical concepts and tools in literary theory to literary examples.
6) Comprehends the modern language and linguistic theories in a comprehensive way.
7) Can evaluate the important literary figures and works in American and world literature together with their cultural and historical features.
8) Evaluates the history of world civilization from the cultural and historical perspective.
9) To be able to translate English to Turkish and Turkish to English in different text types.
10) Apply contemporary teaching methods and techniques related to teaching English as a foreign language.
11) Develops course materials related to teaching English as a foreign language.
12) Uses a second foreign language at B1 General Level at least according to the European Language Portfolio criterion.
13) Uses information and communication technologies together with computer software at the basic level of European Computer Driving License.
14) Applies basic research methods and theories of social sciences.
15) Takes responsibilities by adopting fundamental universal values and developing a prudent, respectful, open to communication and learning attitude towards different language, race, gender, religion and social class groups.

Course - Learning Outcome Relationship

No Effect	1 Lowest	2 Average	3 Highest

	Program Outcomes	Level of Contribution
1)	Uses academic English language skills effectively.
2)	Knows the historical and cultural foundations of English Language and its developmental periods in detail.
3)	Knows the periods of English Literature in detail with its cultural and historical features.
4)	Evaluates the basic literary genres such as fiction (novel, story), theater and poetry according to their characteristics.
5)	Can apply various analytical concepts and tools in literary theory to literary examples.
6)	Comprehends the modern language and linguistic theories in a comprehensive way.
7)	Can evaluate the important literary figures and works in American and world literature together with their cultural and historical features.
8)	Evaluates the history of world civilization from the cultural and historical perspective.
9)	To be able to translate English to Turkish and Turkish to English in different text types.
10)	Apply contemporary teaching methods and techniques related to teaching English as a foreign language.
11)	Develops course materials related to teaching English as a foreign language.
12)	Uses a second foreign language at B1 General Level at least according to the European Language Portfolio criterion.
13)	Uses information and communication technologies together with computer software at the basic level of European Computer Driving License.
14)	Applies basic research methods and theories of social sciences.
15)	Takes responsibilities by adopting fundamental universal values and developing a prudent, respectful, open to communication and learning attitude towards different language, race, gender, religion and social class groups.

Assessment & Grading

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

Workload and ECTS Credit Calculation

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