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Course Contents: Reasoning & Problem Solving in the Context of the Humanities Parts I and II Home; Module 1 - Orientation; Module 2 - Learning Resources and Pre-Instructional Activities; Module 3 - Selecting and Describing a Topic; Module 4 - Summarizing Information; Module 5 - Beginning Your List of Relevant Information; Module 6 - Focusing on Uncertainties; Module 7 - Reasons and Evidence Supporting Different Views or Conclusions; Module 8 - Bias and Assumptions; Module 9 - Interpreting Evidence; Module 10 - Strengths and Weaknesses of Evidence; Module 11 - Organizing Information; Module 12 - Tasks A & B (RUA2); Module 13 - Task C (RUA2)

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Module 3 - Selecting and Describing a Topic

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Activity 2: Reading and Competency Builder

Chapter 1, “What is Critical Thinking?” in Learning to Think Things Through.
Chapter 1, “The Benefit of Asking the Right Questions” in Asking the Right Questions.
Go to the CLRPS Community and post a response to Competency Builder #1 - Focusing your topic with a question to guide your research, which can be found in the discussion threads section. Please thoroughly read the description and question before posting your response.

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