The Future Belongs to Ingenious Critical Thinkers

Timetable

Tuesday 13.15-14.45 Collegium Heliodorii Święcicki

Module aim (aims)

• 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

1. Critical observations and creative reactions
2. Reasoning as a creative act. The elements of thought
3. Questions focused on intellectual standards
4. Figuring out the logic of things. The logic of rationality, scientific articles, presentations, adverts, etc.
5. Egocentric thinking. Persuasive communication
6. Essential Intellectual traits. Persuasive presentation communication
7. The mechanics of Socratic questioning
8. Paradigms of creativity
9. Fallacies and their detection
10. Paragraph and presentation analysis
11. Chosen types of reasoning
12. Students’ presentations. A template for problem-solving
13. Students’ presentations. Stages of critical thinking development
14. Students’ presentations. Stages of critical thinking development
15. The topic chosen by course participants

 

Reading list

Grussendorf Marion, English for Presentations, OUP 2011

Koestler Arthur, The Act of Creation, Dell Publishing, 1964

Paul R., Elder L. The Thinker's Guide to Analytic Thinking, Thinkers' Guide Academy, Foundation for Critical Thinking Press 2003

Paul R., Elder L. The Thinker's Guide to the Art of Mental Trickery and Manipulation  

Paul R., Elder L. The Thinker's Guide to Creative Thinking

Paul R., Elder L. The Thinker's Guide to Ethical Reasoning

Paul R., Elder L. The Thinker's Guide to Fallacies

Paul R., Elder L. The Thinker's Guide to the Human Mind

Paul R., Elder L. The Thinker's Guide to Intellectual Standards: The Words That Name Them and The Criteria That Define Them

Paul R., Elder L. The Thinker's Guide to Scientific Thinking

Paul R., Elder L. The Thinker's Guide to Socratic Questioning

Powell Mark, Dynamic presentations, CUP 2012.