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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 8 - Bias and Assumptions

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Activity 1 : : Activity 2 : : Activity 3 : : Activity 4

Activity 2: Readings and Competency Builder

Review Chapter 5, “What Are the Value Conflicts and Assumptions?” in Asking the Right Questions.
Read Chapter 6, “What Are the Descriptive Assumptions?” in Asking the Right Questions.
Go to the CLRPS Community and post responses to Competency Builder #4 - Assumptions,Biases, and Inferences, and Competency Builder #7 - Two Kinds of Bias, both of which can be found in the discussion threads section.

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