{"id":11,"date":"2014-08-21T10:17:06","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T15:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/fys\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2025-11-05T15:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T20:24:10","slug":"first-year-seminar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/fys\/","title":{"rendered":"First Year Seminar"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Catalog Course Description<\/h2>\n<p><strong>First Year Seminar in Critical Thinking<\/strong>. 3 hrs. Students will develop intentional critical thinking skills integral to lifelong learning through inquiry, discussion, interaction, discovery, problem-solving, writing, research, reflection and examination of complex multicultural\/global ideas and themes.<\/p>\n<p>The overall goal of this class is to\u00a0start practicing using the tools and skills that any college graduate will need in work and in life. By the time you graduate from Marshall University, you will be a much better problem solver than you are now. You will have expertise in using nine major tools (alone or together) to understand an issue, accomplish a complex task, or fix a problem. The nine tools (aka Core Domains) are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>communication fluency<\/li>\n<li>creative thinking<\/li>\n<li>ethical and civic thinking<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"\">information literacy<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"\">integrative thinking<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"\">intercultural thinking<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"\">inquiry based thinking<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"\">metacognitive thinking<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>quantitative thinking<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This class will give you the chance to dig in and practice using <strong>five<\/strong> of these tools (in <strong>bold text<\/strong> above) right away.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catalog Course Description First Year Seminar in Critical Thinking. 3 hrs. Students will develop intentional critical thinking skills integral to lifelong learning through inquiry, discussion, interaction, discovery, problem-solving, writing, research, reflection and examination of complex multicultural\/global ideas and themes. The overall goal of this class is to\u00a0start practicing using the tools and skills that any<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":813,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/fys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/fys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/fys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/fys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/fys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/fys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1183,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/fys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/1183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/fys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/fys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}