{"id":11,"date":"2010-03-05T09:52:13","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T14:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/gened\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2025-07-03T18:02:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T18:02:17","slug":"core-i-courses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/gened\/core-i-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical Thinking (Core I) Courses Info"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Core Curriculum at Marshall University requires students to complete 9 hours of Core I courses: a First Year Seminar (FYS) and two courses with a critical thinking (CT) designation.\u00a0 Together these courses\u00a0introduce first year students to the nine Marshall University Learning Outcomes<\/em> common to all majors at Marshall. While Core I is an introduction to the Marshall outcomes, students will continue to practice these outcomes throughout their degree programs and will demonstrate proficiency in these outcomes in the Capstone Experience.<\/p>\n

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  1. Communication Fluency<\/li>\n
  2. Creative Thinking<\/li>\n
  3. Ethical and Civic Thinking<\/li>\n
  4. Information Literacy<\/li>\n
  5. Inquiry-Based Thinking<\/li>\n
  6. Integrative Thinking<\/li>\n
  7. Intercultural thinking<\/li>\n
  8. Metacognitive Thinking<\/li>\n
  9. Quantitative Fluency<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    First Year Seminar<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

    Taught by faculty drawn from across the university, FYS is an interdisciplinary course that emphasizes the development of critical thinking skills. While the sections may may be a bit different, all sections of the course emphasize problem solving and use student-centered, hands-on experiential activities and projects to address five of the nine Marshall Outcomes (outcomes #4 through #8).<\/p>\n

    Other Core I Courses<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

    Students are required to complete six-hours of CT-designated courses with an emphasis on critical thinking and learner-centered course design. \u00a0Only 100- and 200-level courses are eligible to hold the CT-designation. These courses must meet the Criteria for CT Courses<\/a> passed by the Faculty Senate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The Core Curriculum at Marshall University requires students to complete 9 hours of Core I courses: a First Year Seminar (FYS) and two courses with a critical thinking (CT) designation.\u00a0 Together these courses\u00a0introduce first year students to the nine Marshall University Learning Outcomes common to all majors at Marshall. While Core I is an introduction<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/gened\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/gened\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/gened\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/gened\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/gened\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/gened\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":749,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/gened\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/gened\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}