General information
| Course type | AMUPIE |
| Module title | The Future Belongs to Ingenious Critical Thinkers |
| Language | English |
| Module lecturer | mgr Danuta Furszpaniak |
| Lecturer's email | dfurszp@amu.edu.pl |
| Lecturer position | lecturer |
| Faculty | Foreign Languages Teaching Centre |
| Semester | 2024/2025 (summer) |
| Duration | 30 |
| ECTS | 5 |
| USOS code | 31-FBICT-PIE |
Timetable
Wednesday 13.15-14.45 Collegium Heliodorii Święcicki Room 312
Module aim (aims)
- learn critical thinking concepts and tools
- learn to use them
- improve reasoning and creativity skills
- become a reflective reader
- become a thoughtful thinker in the subject of studies
- become a persuasive presenter
- become an active conversationalist
Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences (where relevant)
B2 level of English
Syllabus
- Critical observations and creative reactions
- Reasoning as a creative act. The elements of thought
- Questions focused on intellectual standards
- Figuring out the logic of things. The logic of rationality, scientific articles, presentations, adverts, etc.
- Egocentric thinking. Persuasive communication
- Essential Intellectual traits. Persuasive presentation communication
- The mechanics of Socratic questioning
- Paradigms of creativity
- Fallacies and their detection
- Paragraph and presentation analysis
- Chosen types of reasoning
- Students’ presentations. A template for problem-solving
- Students’ presentations. Stages of critical thinking development
- Students’ presentations. Stages of critical thinking development
- How to become a master student
Reading list
Grussendorf Marion, English for Presentations, OUP 2011
Koestler Arthur, The Act of Creation, Dell Publishing, 1964
Paul R., Elder L. Critical Thinking. Concepts & Tools, Foundation for Critical Thinking Press, 2018
Paul R., Elder L. Critical Thinking: Tools for taking Care of Your Learning & Your Life, Foundation for Critical Thinking Press, 2022
Paul R., Elder L. The Thinker's Guide to Analytic Thinking, Foundation for Critical Thinking Press 2003
Paul R., Elder L. The Thinker's Guide to the Art of Mental Trickery and Manipulation, Foundation for Critical Thinking Press 2012.
Paul R., Elder L. The Thinker's Guide to the Human Mind, Foundation for Critical Thinking Press, 2015
Powell Mark, Dynamic Presentations, CUP 2012.