Course Description: This online Distance Education course is a basic introduction to logic and critical reasoning. It is designed to equip the students with the tools and concepts needed to deal with both everyday and more technical arguments, as well as the skills to analyze, and resolve, everyday confusions, ambiguities, and fallacies. Topics covered include the distinction between logic and rhetoric; the analysis and resolution of ambiguities and fallacies; validity and inductive strength of arguments; elementary classical propositional and predicate logics; term, modal, multi-valued and relevance logics.
Course Format: The general format of the class is a mixture of textbook readings, online lecture notes readings, home exercises, online group discussions, online quizzes, and review of assignments. All activities in this course are online, including the final exam. The tests and the final exam will use a UBC approved online remote invigilating tool (Zoom, MS Teams, LockDown Browser, or similar).