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ILS 200

CRITICAL THINKING AND EXPRESSION

3 credits.

Explores the three modes of argument and expression: verbal, visual, numerical. Engages in critical thinking about how these modes are structured and used. Practice in, and interpretation of, the three modes.

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Requisites: Satisfied Communications A Course Designation: Core GenEd - Communication & Literacy Comm QR - Communication B Breadth - Humanities Level - Elementary L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and explain how people think critically and analytically across times, cultures, media, and disciplines. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Critically analyze diverse approaches to how people communicate in written and oral modes. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Apply critical and analytical thinking to written and oral modes of communication. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Recognize and evaluate diverse types of critical thought across many different modes of expression, including written, oral, artistic, and mass media. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and explain how people think critically and analytically across times, cultures, media, and disciplines. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Critically analyze diverse approaches to how people communicate in written and oral modes. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Apply critical and analytical thinking to written and oral modes of communication. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Recognize and evaluate diverse types of critical thought across many different modes of expression, including written, oral, artistic, and mass media. Audience: Undergraduate

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