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2021-2022 Academic Catalog (Revised Spring 2022) [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

INT1011 ST: Truth, Lies, in-between

How do we know what is true? This course explores the habits of mind essential for understanding, analyzing, and exploring information before formulating an opinion or conclusion. Using a variety of resources in contemporary media and current events, students will establish their critical reading, critical thinking, and quantitative reasoning approaches to investigate the validity and evidence of the information under discussion. This intensive session will meet mornings with break out project groups in the afternoon. Students will complete a final project that illustrates their critical approach to a controversial or unfounded claim relating to a course topic. Topics under discussion will include Fake News, Climate Change, and COVID 19. This course fulfills the distributed general education requirement of quantitative reasoning. Credits: 3.000