Critical and Analytical Thinking

Critical thinking and problem solving play an essential role in almost all aspects of our personal and professional lives. From infusing rationality into our relationships to intelligently arguing a business proposal for key decision-makers, we're all involved in critical analysis of communication every day. 


The objectives of the critical thinking program are to examine and develop critical skills in argument organization and structuring, modes of analysis and criticism, active listening, tests of logic and recognizing fallacies, and to examine, compare and contrast various types of logical reasoning as it pertains to organizational discourse.

This program focuses on three dimensions of critical analysis of communication:

• Information-processing and analysis in organizational discourse
  
• Argument generation and logical reasoning from critical analysis 
  
• Argument construction and presentation in the various contexts of organizational communication
  

Individual learning modules include:
    
1.  Critical thinking models

• What is critical thinking?
  
• Essence and standards
  

2.  Becoming a critical thinker

• Active listening and perception
  
• Confounding messages
  

3.  Applying critical thinking

• The role of creativity and problem solving
  
• Message design
  

4.  From a legal perspective

• Critical thinking in law
  
• Problem solving in legal applications
  

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