EDU 897 - Critical Reading and Thinking Across the Curriculum

3 Credit(s) Today’s society is constantly bombarded with information which is printed, spoken, or pictured, not all of which is accurate or truthful. This course will help the teacher assist the student in evaluating information. Among the topics considered will be fact-opinion, false authority, valid and invalid argument, statistics, connotation inference and point of view of information services. Teachers will have the opportunity to construct materials for their own class in a workshop situation.