Class Number: 1382
Description: Hours: Three hours lecture per week Prerequisite: Junior Standing or Consent of Instructor Description: This interdisciplinary seminar for first year transfer students promotes successful intellectual and social transition to CSU Channel Islands through a problem-based approach. Students examine the modern world and issues facing societies from multiple perspectives, and develop and convey to others analyses of and solutions to problems using the methodologies, tools and techniques of academic disciplines. Students will develop inquiry skills that emphasize critical thinking and independent learning as well as identify how universities and specific disciplines relate to social problems. The seminar promotes student reflection on prior learning at other institutions and its relationship to the CI mission and their degree program, and aims to increase student engagement in intellectual life at the university. Themes will vary. Students will meet outside of class for one hour on a bi-weekly basis in small groups with a peer leader.

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Days Time Date Range Location Instructor
TH 09:00 AM - 11:50 AM 01/20/2018 - 05/25/2018 Bell Tower 2352 Cynthia King
Status: Open
Session: Regular Academic Session
Units: 3.00
Class Components: Lecture
Career: Undergraduate
Start Date: 01/20/2018
End Date: 05/25/2018
Grading: Letter Grade

Class Availability

Information below is 24 hours old.
Enrollment Total: 18
Available Seats: 7
Wait List Capacity: 15
Wait List Total: 0


Textbook / Other Materials

Textbook Status: Required
ISBN: 9780345407511
Title: Argument Culture
Author: Tannen
Publish: Ballantine Books

Textbook Status: Required
ISBN: 9780312595371
Title: Soul of a Citizen (New & Rev)
Author: Loeb
Publish: St. Martin's Press

Textbook Status: Required
ISBN: 9781429934077
Title: Soul of a Citizen
Author: Loeb
Publish: Macmillan

Textbook Status: Recommended
ISBN: 9780316204361
Title: David & Goliath
Author: Gladwell
Publish: Little Brown & Company

Textbook Status: Recommended
ISBN: 9780073534305
Title: First Look at Communication Theory
Author: Griffin
Publish: McGraw-Hill

Textbook Status: Recommended
ISBN: 9780670019274
Title: Political Mind
Author: Lakoff
Publish: Penguin

Textbook Status: Recommended
ISBN: 9781594205552
Title: Reclaiming Conversation
Author: Turkle
Publish: Penguin Group USA Inc

Textbook Status: Recommended
ISBN: 9781555977917
Title: Bunk
Author: Young
Publish: Graywolf

More textbook information including prices

Enrollment Information

  • Upper Division
  • A3: Critical Thinking
  • E: Life-Long & Self-Development
  • UDIGE: Interdisciplinary


Notes

  • Course Title: Critical Thinking: How do I Make Informed Decisions in an era of ¿fake news?¿ Open to Juniors and Seniors Only. This transfer seminar includes an embedded peer mentor, with in-class and out-of-class activities student success activities.
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