Course Code: GGRN 150
Academic Year: 2025-2026
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 like the scientific method, experimentation, and observational studies. Students will develop their critical thinking skills through the analysis, interpretation, and evaluation of media reports and peer-reviewed research, which provide opportunities for debate. Students will also identify features that are common in science denialism and contrast those features to the rigors of scientific investigation and communication. 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.