Course Overview

Critical thinking is a process of conceptualizing, analyzing and evaluating the gathered information in order to form appropriate actions. The information may come from an experience, reflection or communication. In its ideal form, critical thinking comprises of universal intellectual values.

Critical thinking consists of two components:

• A set of information and necessary skills to process
• A habit to use intellectual commitment in order to guide the behaviors

A well cultivated critical thinker:

• Formulates vital questions and problems, analyses answers
• Uses abstract ideas and gathers relevant information
• Draws well-reasoned conclusions and solutions against the relevant standards
• Thinks with an open mind within alternative systems of thought
• Communicates effectively with other people and diagnoses complex problems.