Foundations of Reasoning

This course is designed to strengthen students’ reasoning skills and advance their capacity to think clearly and deeply about important issues— like truth, goodness, justice, and beauty. Together, students and professors uncover and sharpen vital intellectual tools and then apply those tools to big ideas and to specific real-world situations. An emphasis on developing arguments and engaging with others in civil fashion will be a central component to this course. In the end, students will demonstrate an ability to recognize, understand, and construct sound arguments.