PH 220 - Logic and Critical Thinking *

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This course presents an overview of critical thinking, writing, and speaking skills. Recognizing that argumentation requires reasoning that is both sound and effective, the course studies these critical skills as an interplay of logic, rhetoric, and dialectic. Techniques for analyzing existing arguments are presented, as well as strategies for developing new arguments. These are studied with an eye toward both logical integrity and persuasive force.