Information, Evidence, and Persuasion

5 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 70. Examination of sources and varieties of knowledge produced in social sciences. Evaluation of types of evidence, arguments, and persuasion on social problems and public issues. Examination of public life of evidence and arguments by different actors in social policymaking, persuasion, and propaganda process. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.