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If you are interested in learning more about critical thinking and how to apply critical-thinking skills, check out the introductory course in logic offered by your college’s philosophy department. It might be the single best course designed to teach you critical-thinking skills, and nearly all colleges and universities offer such a course. Also, talk with a philosophy or logic instructor about in-class and out-of-class opportunities on your campus. A major in either area might be right for you.
Does your institution offer either an argument or a critical-thinking course? Check your campus catalog to see what you can find. Such courses will help you develop the ability to formulate logical arguments and avoid such pitfalls as logical fallacies.
Some of the very best thinkers developed debating skills during college. Go to either your student activities office or your department of speech and drama to find out whether your campus has a debate club or team. Debating can be fun, and chances are you will meet some interesting student thinkers that way.
This reprint of the original teleplay, which was written in 1954, was made into a film in 1958. Read the teleplay or watch the movie version of this stirring courtroom drama that pits twelve jurors against one another as they argue the outcome of a murder trial in which the defendant is a teenage boy. Although critical thinking is needed to arrive at the truth, all the jurors except one use noncritical arguments to arrive at a guilty verdict. The analysis of that one holdout, however, produces a remarkable change in their attitudes.
Ithaca College provides a guide to using critical-thinking skills to evaluate resources you’ll encounter when doing research in college at ithacalibrary.com/sp/subjects/evalres.