Critical Thinking

The aims of this module are threefold: Firstly, to enhance each student’s ability to detect, identify, evaluate and question the validity of any given facts and supposedly relevant information. Secondly, students will learn to recognise the most appropriate use of factual information for the purposes of argument construction for coherent, critical reasoning. Learning such a skill will in turn facilitate appropriate transfer of newly derived knowledge as may pertain to novel, yet related, challenges of increasing levels of difficulty. Thirdly, students will increase their ability (and desire) to pro-actively engage in creative explanatory thinking, and dynamic interactions with the world of objects and events, in such a way as to ‘automatically’ generate alternative explanations and answers to both solved and unsolved problems.