Virginia's Community Colleges: Creative Thinking

Creative Thinking - HUM 246

https://courses.vccs.edu/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

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