ENGLISH 75
Units: 3
Prerequisite/Co-requisite Courses: None
Instructor: Dr. Sylvia Y. Rippel Schoemaker
Phone: 510.628.8036
Office Hours: T-Th 9-9:30, 12; 15-1 and by arrangement
E-mail: docsyl@gmail.com
Required text:
Mayfield, Marlys. Thinking for Yourself. 6th Edition. Boston: Heinle, 2004. (ISBN: 0-8384-0735-8) (TFY)
Daiek, Deborah and Macomb, Nancy. Critical Reading for College and Beyond. McGraw-Hill, 2006. (ISBN: 0072473762) (CRCB)
Recommended Text:
Harris, Robert. A. Creative Problem Solving. Los Angeles: Pyrczak Publishing, 2002. ISBN: 1-884585-43-4 (CPS)
(Syllabus rev. date: 6/2007)
DESCRIPTION
Catalog Course Description
ENG 75- CRITICAL THINKING
Consideration of cognitive skills and communicative strategies for defining, applying, analyzing, synthesizing and evaluating information. Course includes structural and operational approaches to task/mission analysis, decision-making, change forecasting, adaptation, and evaluation. Systems approach to analysis and solution of complex problems. Conceptual issues in problem definition, goal determination and measurement of effectiveness. (3 units)
OBJECTIVES
Students will develop their cognitive skills and enhance their communicative strategies for defining, applying, analyzing, synthesizing and evaluating information. The course will incorporate the following University learner and institutional goals:
University learner goals 1 -6, and specifically (3.2) To examine objectively various sides of issues; (3.3) To utilize the procedures involved in systematic problem solving; and in English:: To develop basic academic and professional skills(1); To develop the ability to communicate effective in English, oral and in writing, and to read with understanding (1.1) and institutional goals , especially 1,(1.1-1.4), 2.4
FORMAT
The course sessions will include presentation, discussion, and application modes.
STUDENT RESPONSIBILITIES
Students are expected to attend class, complete assignments, and to participate in individual and group work in a productive manner, and to take personal responsibility for meeting the objectives of the course.
SCHEDULE
| Week | Thinking For Yourself | TFY Chapter | Critical Reading for College and Beyond | CRCB Chapter |
| 1 | Observation | 1 | Reading | 1 |
| 2 | Word Precision | 2 | Vocabulary | 2 |
| 3 | Facts | 3 | Memory | 3 |
| 4 | Inferences | 4 | Time | 4 |
| 5 | Assumptions | 5 | Main Ideas | 5 |
| 6 | Opinions | 6 | Details | 6 |
| 7 | Evaluations | 7 | Inference | 7 |
| 8 | MT | ePortfolio | Review | |
| 9 | Review | Strategies | 9 | |
| 10 | Viewpoints | 8 | Marking | 10 |
| 11 | Argument | 9 | Adv Strategies | 11 |
| 12 | Fallacies | 10 | Arguments | 12 |
| 13 | Inductive Reasoning | 11 | Cognitive Domain | 13 |
| 14 | Deductive Reasoning | 12 | Evaluation | 14 |
| 15 | Research Paper ePortfolio | Appendix | Applications | |
| 16 | Final |
STUDENT EVALUATION
Students are evaluated on the basis of class work, written assignments, quizzes, midterm and final exams, with grades proportionate to the following values:
| Content | Points | Percent |
| Attendance & Class Participation | 35 | 16% |
| Summaries, Maps, Projects | 50 | 23% |
| Quizzes /tests /exercises | 50 | 23% |
| Papers | 50 | 23% |
| Presentations | 35 | 16% |
| Totals | 220 | 100% |
| Percent | Letter Grade |
90-100 | A |
80-89 | B |
70-79 | C |
60-69 | D |
Below 60 | F |
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