Is screening for breast cancer or prostate cancer a good idea? Is the world becoming a better place or a worse place? How many of the things you believe to be true are false? How many of the things you believe to be false are true? How do you go about answering these questions?
Reasoning skills are at the bedrock of all academic skills, but also in our daily lives they allow us to make sense of and navigate through an information rich and complex world. Although they are highly relevant to all aspects of life, typically these skills are only taught implicitly. In this course these necessary skills receive the attention they deserve. The course covers reasoning in theoretical terms, but the focus lies on putting these skills into practice using academic and daily-life cases.