Critical Thinking Skills
Earners of the Critical Thinking badge have developed intellectual skills necessary to conceptualize, apply, analyze, synthesize, and evaluate information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to formulate justified beliefs and initiate prudent actions. Earners of the badge will also have developed knowledge of values and ethics as well the fundamentals of language acquisition and use.
- Type Learning
- Level Foundational
- Time Months
- Cost Paid
Skills
- Communications
- Critical Thinking
- Data Analysis
- Data Collection
- Ethical Conduct
- Ethical Responsibility
- Ethical Standards And Conduct
- Greek
- Information Analysis
- Information Literacy
- Language Acquisition
- Latin
- Problem Identification
- Question Prioritization
- Research Methodology
- Solution Evaluation
- Solution Generation
- Theology
Earning Criteria
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Complete PHIL 1113 Introduction to Philosophy. An introduction to philosophy, mainly Western, but also including world traditions, that examines the thought of major philosophers and explores the traditional questions of philosophy about the nature of reality, knowledge, values, and humanity. Humanities elective.
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Complete PHIL 1313 Values and Ethics. A study of ethics and values from a comparative and structural basis to include origin and base of formulation.
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Complete LANG 1113 Foundations of World Languages. An overview of the basic forms of world languages and their relationships to modern tongues. Preliminary references to Latin/Greek root origin with specific concentration on the fundamentals of Spanish, French, and Italian.