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.