Course Number: IAT 209
Course Title: Critical and Creative Thinking
Credit Hours: 3 Vector: Presentational Co-operative 0-3-0
Course Description
This course identifies characteristics of critical thinking and innovative and creative thinking, and develops a framework for discussing and understanding concepts of knowing, questioning, and developing and presenting ideas. Students learn to build an argument through rhetorical methods, explore the history and formulation of criticism, develop and formulate questions as a mechanism for constructing and supporting concept building. Students will explore the characteristics of innovation and creativity, including the importance of informational mediaries such as "opinion leaders" and "change agents".
Prerequisite:
IAT 100, 101.
Recommended: None.
Corequisite: None.
Special Instructions: Students with credit for INTD 213, 214 and 215 may not take this course for further credit.
Course(s) to be dropped if this course is approved:
INTD 213-1 Critical Awareness and Analysis
IART 214-1 Creative and Critical Thinking: Being Creative
IART 215-1 Creative and Critical Thinking: Being Critical
This course consolidates three 1-credit module-based (5 week) courses into a single 3-credit semester-based course. The course is a cultural theory elective within IAT.
Will this be a required or elective course in the curriculum; probable enrolment when offered?
Indicate Semester and Year this course would be first offered and planned frequency of offering thereafter.
2004-3 and annually thereafter.
Which of your present CFL faculty have the expertise to offer this course? Will the course be taught by sessional or limited term faculty?
The course will be taught by faculty within IAT.
Are there any proposed student fees associated with this course other than tuition fees?
No.
Is this course considered a `duplicate' of any current or prior course under the University's duplicate course policy? Specify, as appropriate.
This course duplicates INTD 213-1, INTD 214-1, INTD 215-1.
Note: Senate has approved (S.93-11) that no new course should be approved by Senate until funding has been committed for necessary library materials. Each new course proposal must be accompanied by a library report and, if appropriate, confirmation that funding arrangements have been addressed.
Provide details on how existing instructional resources will be redistributed to accommodate this new course. For instance, will another course be eliminated or will the frequency of offering of other courses be reduced; are there changes in pedagogical style or class sizes that allow for this additional course offering.
This course will use the resources already in place for the three 1-credit modules it replaces. New course materials will be required.
Does the course require specialized space or equipment not readily available in the department or university, and if so, how will these resources be provided?
No.
Does this course require computing resources (e.g. hardware, software, network wiring, use of computer laboratory space) and if so, describe how they will be provided.
No.
In this course students will:
Identify characteristics of critical thinking, and innovative or creative thinking
Discuss and understand the differences between concepts of truth, free will and knowing; opinions and beliefs, and moral questions and judgment
Explore the creative process and its challenges, including expressing and investigating an issue or problem, and producing ideas
Assess the implications of evaluation, propaganda, and semantics of discourse, including observation and inference
Understand how to develop and support an argument, including the use of rhetoric, writing and research
Understand and explore the history and application of criticism
Understand and explore notions of innovation, change agents, in a cultural context
This course identifies characteristics of critical thinking and innovative and creative thinking, and develops a framework for discussing and understanding concepts of knowing, questioning, and developing and presenting ideas. Students learn to build an argument through rhetorical methods, explore the history and formulation of criticism, develop and formulate questions as a mechanism for constructing and supporting concept building. Students will explore the characteristics of innovation and creativity, including the importance of informational mediaries such as "opinion leaders" and "change agents".
Bi-weekly seminar; bi-weekly web conference.
Seminar - 1.5 hours
Web Presentation and Required Readings - 1.5 hours
Conference Discussions - 3.5 hours
Research and Development for Final Project - 1.0 hours
Total Hours - 7.5 Hours
Small Projects: 30%; Projects 40%;
Web-Conference and Class Participation 30%
Course Pack