Student Learning Outcomes

• Students will be able to distinguish and evaluate inductive and deductive arguments using criteria of evaluation such as valid/invalid, strong/weak, etc.
• Students will learn to distinguish arguments from non-arguments.
• Students will be able to apply deductive and inductive reasoning to morals, politics, science, literature, and everyday life scenarios.
• Students will learn to translate arguments into symbolic form to test their validity.
• Students will be acquainted with the various forms of definitions and learn to construct proper definitions.
• Students will learn to analyze informal fallacies.