Critical Thinking in Global Challenges

• Week 1: What is Critical thinking, and why is it important?
• Week 2: ‘Credibility and Relevance’: Understanding where information comes from and the nature of evidence
• Week 3: ‘Assessing arguments’ 1/2 
• Week 4: ‘Assessing arguments’ 2/2 
• Week 5: Developing arguments

The course will provide ‘Global Challenge’ themes for students to work on for the purpose of ‘Assessing arguments’ in weeks 3 & 4. We recommend that students normally select only one of the themes to focus on.