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0

Course Title:

Strategic Thinking and Learning

Course Description:

Emphasizes practical applications of critical thinking concepts to strengthen thinking, reading, and study strategies across the disciplines. Skills include analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating information, as well as previewing, finding main ideas and details, summarizing, classifying information, and locating signal words. Offers students the opportunity to review and sharpen study skills such as time management, memory techniques, note taking, and exam taking. Reviews methods for researching, organizing, and writing term papers and for making presentations. Readings and research assignments address the primary theme of the course: identity. We explore three aspects of identity: self-perception and personal insight, interpersonal relationships, and social and ethical identity. In keeping with Northeastern’s mission and the basic tenets of critical thinking, the course is relevant to both academic and “real-world” challenges.