SOPHOMORE INQUIRY DESCRIPTION (UNST 239)
This course introduces the Knowledge, Values, Rationality cluster. This course invites students to think critically about their value decisions, factual beliefs, policies that govern local institutions, and the norms and principles of the culture and society they represent and inhabit; it is designed to develop students’ metacognitive skills and encourages the use of these skills throughout students’ academic experience; it introduces students to an interdisciplinary perspective on rationality, one that employs methods, concepts, insights, and perspectives from philosophy, history, and philosophy of science, psychology, sociology, criminal justice, economics, physics, and systems science. The class uses a case study to evaluate how critical thinking skills can be used to negotiate the interrelationship among equity, economics, and the environment.