Philosophy 110 Syllabus

Course Syllabus: 2018 Fall Philosophy 110 Online Syllabus.pdf

Meet Your Instructor

My name is Zack Fish, and I've been a professor of philosophy at Santa Ana College since 2004. In additional to Critical Thinking, I also teach Introduction to Philosophy, Ethics, Introductory Logic, and History of Philosophy. I attended University of California-Riverside and my hometown school, the University of New Orleans. 

Course Description
College-level critical thinking and writing. Promotes self-awareness, independent thinking, and improved academic expression. Examines philosophical methods and reasoning and composition, and the uses of informal logic and criticism in personal life, college, work, and democratic society.

Student Learning Objectives

• To identify, reconstruct, and analyze logical arguments, including conclusions, premises, and implicit assumptions, within a wide variety of written works.
  
  
• To apply, in both written and oral form, critical thinking concepts and techniques to contemporary issues related to society, politics, law, science, medicine, and education.
  
  
• To identify common reasoning errors and cognitive biases that lead to faulty argumentation.
  
  
• To write effective argumentative essays in which original, thoughtful, strongly developed critical positions are presented in a clear, methodical, well-structured manner.