ENGLISH 5: It's easy to assume everyone knows what we mean when we say "critical thinking", but in this course we're going to dig in and define it for ourselves. How would you define critical thinking? Why is it important? What is your definition of a strong argument? Or a weak one?

These questions will guide our work together this semester, and your own interests and concerns will help us choose which specific topics to investigate. We will brainstorm possible topics and then work together to build our knowledge on them, tailoring our readings accordingly, all while creating our own definitions of what it means to be a critical thinker, reader, and writer.  "Customizing" our class this way helps us be flexible thinkers and apply our skills to both traditional and non-traditional topics for inquiry. Most of our readings will come from online sources, and we will also nominate and vote on a book to read together this semester. 

We will meet synchronously on Zoom weekly.

If you have any questions about the course, please feel free to email me.