Reasoning Across the Disciplines
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Reasoning Across the Disciplines at Coursera Overview
Duration | 16 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
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Reasoning Across the Disciplines at Coursera Highlights
- Shareable Certificate Earn a Certificate upon completion
- 100% online Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
- Flexible deadlines Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
- Beginner Level
- Approx. 16 hours to complete
- English Subtitles: French, Portuguese (European), Russian, English, Spanish
Reasoning Across the Disciplines at Coursera Course details
- Critical reasoning skills are a key success factor for students entering their first year of college. They must be able to think logically and form arguments. This course, designed with incoming college freshmen in mind but open to anyone, provides an essential grounding in critical reasoning skills. Faculty from multiple disciplines at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill offer guidance on applying critical thinking skills in the context of specific disciplines. By developing these skills, students will learn more, enjoy their courses more, and experience greater academic success.
- This course will help you understand what critical thinking skills are and why they're so important. You will also learn how critical thinking skills vary across disciplines, as well as see them applied across several fields, including, chemistry, history, psychology, law, English, and American Studies. You will develop your own critical thinking skills by working through scenarios or problems posed by scholars across these fields, and you will better understand how your college courses will differ from your earlier education.
Reasoning Across the Disciplines at Coursera Curriculum
Welcome
Rationale for the Course
Introduction to Reasoning Across the Disciplines
The World at the Atomic Level
How Energy Powers our Universe
About the Contributor: Thomas Freeman
The World at the Atomic Level
How Energy Powers our Universe
Think Like an Historian
Turning the World Upside Down
Understanding Columbus?s Impressions of the Tainos
Understanding the Tainos? Impressions of Columbus
A Letter from Christopher Columbus
About the Contributor: Kathleen DuVal
Columbus and World History
Think Like a Psychologist
Understanding How Others Think
Thinking and Feeling
Mind Perception and Moral Judgment
About the Contributor: Kurt Gray
Practice Quiz: Thinking and Feeling
Practice Quiz: Mind Perception and Moral Judgment
Think Like a Law Professor
Considering Free Will
Understanding the Civil Law of Battery
Liberty versus Property
Court Cases: Hackbart and O'Brien
Court Cases: Mugler and Lucas
About the Contributor: Donald Hornstein
Understanding the Civil Law of Battery
Liberty versus Property
Think Like a Literature Professor
Context through Reading
Close Reading
The Art of Interpretation
Close Reading Example
Additional Resources (Optional)
About the Contributor: Heidi Kim
Close Reading Practice Quiz
The Art of Interpretation Practice Quiz
Think Like an American Studies Scholar
How Language Shapes Attitudes
Dogs & Fighting, Horses & Racing, and Race
Understanding Relationships through Interdisciplinarity
About the Contributor: Sharon P. Holland
Dogs & Fighting, Horses & Racing, and Race
Understanding Relationships through Interdisciplinarity
Course Conclusion
Final Thoughts and Course Wrap-up
About the Contributors
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