Upon completion of this course, the students will:
– Use the following concepts on a theoretical and experiential basis: observing, sensing, perceiving, thinking, labeling, describing, defining, interpreting, facts, inferences, generalizations;
– Maintain awareness of one’s own thinking– feeling–perceiving–inference-making process;
– Know how clear thinking depends on “staying awake” to what is;
– Understand how clear thinking depends upon word clarity;
– Judge the concepts and complexities of assumptions, opinions, and viewpoints;
– See how the concepts are mental experiences, how they are problematical when confused with facts;
– Understand how viewpoint bias frames and shapes information;
– Recognize the meaning of conscious and unconscious viewpoints;
– See why arguments are supported claims;
– Know how reasons differ from conclusions;
– Recognize what questions to ask in analyzing arguments;
– Be able to know and apply the following skills:
- Suspending thinking in order to freshly sense and gather data;
- Achieving clarity about the words you use;
- Describing the obvious evidence without substituting labels and interpretations;
- Not confusing facts with inferences;
- Providing evidence to support a generalization;
- Recognizing the mental formation of assumptions, opinions, and viewpoints;
- Assessing assumptions, opinions, and viewpoints for strengths and limitations;
- Identifying underlying assumptions and value assumptions in discourse;
- Separating opinions from facts;
- Recognizing hidden opinions within evaluative words;
- Identifying any source and its viewpoint characteristics;
- Analyzing a news frame;
- Assessing the relative reliability of a source;
- Recognizing the characteristics of propaganda;
- Identifying conclusions and separating them from reasons;
- Identifying reports and separating them from arguments;
- Articulating the question at issue;
- Analyzing arguments.
– Critically evaluate the moral, economic, business, financial, legal, organizational, institutional, cultural and other characteristics of business ethics;
– Design practical solutions using the tools/techniques of CSR and CSV independently, strategy and decision making;
– Acquire a critical understanding of operating corporations, management of conflicts between institutions of the corporation;
– Design approaches by critically building on characteristic international models of corporate governance.
