Description
The Honors Seminar in Critical Analysis is a course with variable subtopics that provide Honors students a platform where they will develop necessary skills with which to engage knowledge and distinguish themselves as a thinker. This knowledge will present itself in several forms - in both reading and writing, certainly, but also in the ongoing interaction and informed exchange of ideas among students. The course is structured as a forum or seminar with a discussion format specifically intended to facilitate this free and open exchange. Through critical thinking and problem-solving, student will evaluate a variety of important issues and ideas that have and continue to influence the human story, paying particular attention to how these ideas have developed and how their proponents and detractors have presented their arguments. In so doing, students will engage primary and secondary sources, and one another as well, to evaluate the quality of important arguments, both in content and in