IM 321 - Critical Thinking for Pre-Health Professionals

Credit(s): 3.00

Critical thinking is the use of reasoning in determining what’s true and what’s false. Health professionals must employ critical thinking when learning, integrating, evaluating and applying new thoughts, ideas or principles to clinical practice. This course focuses on: productive reasoning skills, evaluating and assessing logical and illogical reasoning skills, and understanding logical fallacies and what role they play in constructing and destructing arguments. One of the main goals of this class is to help students recognize, and have self-awareness of, their own biases and when they may be more prone to employing logically fallacious thought processes.