Creative Thinking - HUM 246 at Rappahannock Community College
https://courses.vccs.edu/colleges/rcc/courses/HUM246-CreativeThinking
Effective: 2021-08-01
Course Description
Examines, analyzes, and develops creative and critical thinking processes with individual and group applications to solve business, scientific, social, environmental, and other practical problems. The assignments in this course require college-level reading, analysis of scholarly studies, and coherent communication through properly cited and formatted written reports.
Lecture 3 hours. Total 3 hours per week.
3 credits
The course outline below was developed as part of a statewide standardization process.
General Course Purpose
HUM 246 develops an understanding of the thinking process and its impact on personal, academic, and professional decision making for both the individual and society as a whole.
Course Objectives
- Critical Thinking
- Students will be able to identify assumptions, supported by research, using critical thinking abilities together with academic content and students' experiences.
- Perception and personality
- Compare implicit and explicit connections between communication, thinking, and learning
- Practical application of critical thinking in environment, science, business, politics and law
- Identify and employ cross-disciplinary thinking, problem solving.
- Clarity in Arguments
- Demonstrate the connections between communication, thinking, and learning.
- Evaluation of advertisements, news, and social media
- Interpret the ways media, art, and digital communication impact ideological, scientific, and ethical judgments
- Logic, Consistency, and Assumption
- Distinguish between fact and opinion
- Reasoning and Inference
- Formulate methods for overcoming barriers to creative and critical thinking.
- Race, gender, and politics in thought
- Analyze, articulate, and contextualize situational definitions of the processes of critical and creative thinking.
- Logical Fallacies
- Identify informal logical fallacies in language and thought.
Major Topics to be Included
- Course Major Topics
- Perception and personality
- Practical application of critical thinking in environment, science, business, politics and law
- Clarity in Arguments
- Evaluation of advertisements, news, and social media
- Logic, Consistency, and Assumption
- Reasoning and Inference
- Race, gender, and politics in thought
- Logical Fallacies