James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2020

FS0304 - Critical Thinking

Subject Description

This subject will provide students from all disciplines with the skills of critical thinking required for successful academic study. This subject will assist students to develop the skills to critically analyse a variety of texts, images and arguments for academic purposes. This will be achieved through exploration of definitions for critical thinking; exploring the concepts of logic, inductive and deductive reasoning and an examination of texts, media and academic sources for legitimacy, credibility, reliability, bias, and appropriateness in context. This subject therefore develops students' higher order thinking strategies as documented in Bloom's taxonomy.

Learning Outcomes

• understand relationships between texts, genres and contexts
• analyse and evaluate how the conventions of texts influence responses including language, genre and context
• plan, draft and edit a range of text types using appropriate academic conventions
• demonstrate critical thinking and problem solving skills, including the use of inductive and deductive reasoning in an academic context
• evaluate and analyse different texts, media and academic sources for legitimacy, credibility, reliability and appropriateness in context

Subject Assessment

• Invigilated > Presentations - (20%)
• Poster and Presentation - (20%)
• Class Debate and Seminar Discussion - (20%)
• Non-Invigilated > Essays - (40%)

Note that minor variations might occur due to the continuous subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.

Special Assessment Requirements

Nil

Availabilities