Argumentation and Debate

Catalog description

This course examines the theory of argumentation and provides students with the opportunity to engage in several in-class debates. Students will develop a heightened understanding and appreciation of the nature and role of debate in the democratic process. Attention will be paid to models of argumentation, methods of reasoning, evidence usage, detection of fallacies, strategies of effective rebuttal, and the critique of arguments in the classroom and in public life.