unit 5

HUM 1020, Critical Thinking 1

Course Learning Outcomes for Unit V Upon completion of this unit, students should be able to:

1. Understand how factual information must be verifiable through investigation. 2. Discuss how inferences go beyond factual information to describe what is currently not known. 3. Identify the ways that predicting and inferring are related. 4. Differentiate between inferences and judgments. 5. Recognize that an evaluation is based on criteria. 6. Apply criteria as part of an evaluation.

Reading Assignment Chapter 5: Reporting, Inferring, Judging

Film Assignment

Films (Choose 1):

 Contact

 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118884/

 http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1078021-contact/

 Meet Joe Black

 http://www.meetjoeblack.com/

 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119643/

 http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/meet_joe_black/

 Bruce Almighty

 http://www.universalstudiosentertainment.com/bruce-almighty/

 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0315327/

 http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bruce_almighty/

 Questioning Faith: Confessions of a Seminarian

 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0326035/

 Leap of Faith

 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104695/

 http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1042059-leap_of_faith/

Note about films: These have all been chosen based on how they help illustrate and enhance the main focus of each unit.

UNIT V STUDY GUIDE

Reporting Information, Inferring, and Judging

HUM 1020, Critical Thinking 2

UNIT x STUDY GUIDE

Title

Unit Lesson Your thinking process organizes the world you see into relationships that make sense to you; thinking helps you understand the world and what is happening. These relationships that help you understand the world are also called patterns, which include patterns of the following types:

 Chronological

 Process

 Comparative

 Causal In this unit, you will explore the way you use these thinking patterns, and others, to organize your beliefs and knowledge (Unit IV). You will learn that the quality and accuracy of your beliefs are dependent on the information, inferences, and judgments with which you support them. You will recognize how some beliefs are perceived to be better than others because they appear more accurate, complete, and grounded in plausible inferences, or they are based on valid judgments.

Film Themes:

 The difference between reporting, inferring and judging.

 Evaluating the validity of information, inferences and judgments.

 Defining moral decision making.

 Why be moral? What does it mean?