Course Code: GGRN 150
Academic Year: 2023-2024
Critical thinking is crucial when confronting current local and global challenges such as sustainability, climate change, and public health. It is also instrumental when making sense of the science that informs strategies to meet those challenges. In this course, students will learn how principles of critical thinking are embedded in forms of scientific inquiry and discovery like the scientific method, experimentation, and observational studies. Students will develop their critical thinking skills through the analysis, interpretation, and evaluation of peer-reviewed research and media reports that are scientifically relevant and provide opportunities for debate. Through critical reflection and reasoning, students will cultivate a sense of empowerment, ownership, and accountability for their scientific beliefs; values which are important towards expanding their learning in the sciences and actively engaging with science that affects us all.