Credits: (3) Instructional Method: Three hours lecture. Prerequisites:CORE 102 or CORE 103. Further development of students’ skills in critical thinking, including a rigorous introduction to informal fallacies, deductive logic and inductive reasoning. Students will also learn how to recognize, analyze, and evaluate arguments in written and oral communication. Students will continue to develop competency in information literacy as they read and critique persuasive writing and communication and create their own arguments.