During and after this course, students will be able to:
1.Recognize and describe factors that form mistaken beliefs and 
lead to flawed choices.
2.Describe the attitudes that encourage critical thinking.
3.Identify, recognize, and apply strategies that comprise
critical thinking.
4.Recognize the relationship between critical thinking and
evidence-based practice.

Topic Outline:

-What is critical thinking?
-What kind of attitudes are essential for critical thinking?
-How does our thinking go wrong?
-Critical thinking skills:
   o How to ask the right questions
   o What are the issues and conclusion?
   o What are the reasons claimed to support the conclusion?
   o Are there ambiguous words and phrases?
   o What are the underlying assumptions?
   o How to identify fallacies in reasoning
   o How to evaluate the quality of the evidence
   o Are there alternative explanations for the conclusion?
-What is the role of critical thinking in evidence-based 
practice?

All students are expected to familiarize themselves with, and 
abide by, the complete academic honesty policies of the 
University of Georgia and the UGA Student Honor Code.  The 
latter states very clearly and very simply "I will be 
academically honest in all of my academic work and will not 
tolerate academic dishonesty of others."  For this course in 
particular, students are encouraged to speak with others about 
all the ideas that we raise, but all written and other work 
submitted for a grade must be the student's own individual 
work, developed for this class alone..