The course will present the students with the methods and principles used to distinguish correct from incorrect reasoning, it will cover skills essential to identifying fallacies in reasoning. Elementary formal techniques will be used to analyze natural language arguments.

CILO-1: Distinguish between valid/sound/strong/cogent arguments, as well as to identify formal and informal fallacies. CILO-2: Translate natural language arguments into propositional logic. CILO-3: Summarize and explain the major features of scientific and moral reasoning. CILO-4: Locate, analyze, paraphrase, and evaluate arguments made in support of different perspectives on human and social questions and from a variety of sources (newspaper articles, novels, etc.).