Critical Thinking Components

• Assessment of Evidence
• Integration
• Evaluation
• Comparing information to personal experience or belief (An application of assessment, integration, and evaluation)

Areas In Which to Apply Critical Thinking

NMU General Education Categories

• Effective Communication (two courses required): Students demonstrate communication skills that express and convey ideas clearly and effectively.
• Quantitative Reasoning and Analysis (one course required): Students will demonstrate interpretation of quantitative data leading to conclusions.
• Social Responsibility in a Diverse World (one course required): Students will demonstrate engagement with cultural and ethnic diversity.
  • BC 415 Intercultural Communication
• Integrative Thinking (one course required): Students will demonstrate integrative thinking by synthesizing disciplinary knowledge and applying this synthesis to new contexts.
  • BC 430 Health Communication and Media
• Human Expression (one course required): Students will demonstrate analysis and evaluation of artistic, literary or rhetorical expression.
• Perspectives on Society (two courses required): Students will demonstrate synthesis and analysis of major social structures and processes or events.
  • BC 165 Intro to Mass Media
  • BC 471 Media and Society
• Scientific Inquiry (two courses required): Students will demonstrate use of scientific processes to investigate and report knowledge about natural or social phenomena.