ENGL 130 - Critical Thinking

Institution:

College of Marin

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Description:

(3.0 Units) (Prerequisite: Eligibility for English 150. Three lecture hours weekly.) This course is designed to sharpen students' abilities to reason clearly. It is an introductory level course in the arts of rhetoric and logic. Students will learn to recognize and analyze common fallacies found in political statements, magazine commentary, news coverage, editorials, advertisements, and classical persuasive works. They will develop ways to organize their ideas and express them rationally, as well as ways to judge the quality of ideas and the purposes of various examples ranging from propaganda to persuasion to philosophy. This course satisfies the CSU critical thinking requirement and offers students a chance to refine and continue developing their writing and reading skills before transferring. (CSU/UC) AA/AS Area E, CSU Area A-3

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.marin.edu

Phone Number:

(415) 457-8811

Regional Accreditation:

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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