Description:
This course will explore the nature of persuasive argumentation as applied through the specific lens of parliamentary style debating.
Learning Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Analyze the degree to which forms of human difference shape personal experiences of and perspectives on the world.
- Analyze a contemporary global issue from a multidisciplinary perspective.
- Explain and be able to assess the relationship among assumptions, method, evidence, arguments, and theory in social and historical analysis.
- Understand different theories about human culture, social identity, economic entities, political systems, and other forms of social organization.
- Apply concepts about human and social behavior to particular questions or situations.
- Examine critically philosophical and other theoretical issues concerning the nature of reality, human experience, knowledge, value, and/or cultural production.
- Engage critically in the process of creative expression.